Crossings Upcoming Workshops & News
Our workshops provide an in depth education on all issues pertaining to home funerals and green burials — letting families know that they are THE decision-makers in after-death care and can exercise choices that will bring about greater healing. Click here for more information on the goals and structure of our workshops.
Charlotte, NC - May 17 & 18, 2013.
Fee: $150
Hours: Friday night 7-9, Saturday 8:45 - 5pm.
Contact Rosemarie Belcher for more information: rosemariebelcher@gmail.com
You can make a deposit or a payment for workshops by clicking here.
In the News:
Compost Me please, An educational article on disposition and a persuasive argument for traditional or green burial.
Listen to "The Case for Home Funeral Care," an interview with Beth Knox from Crossings, from Maryland Morning (WYPR, Baltimore Maryland's NPR station), on May 19, 2010.
"Nonprofit offers resources for eco-friendly funerals," from the October 2009 Takoma Voice.
"The Surprising Satisfaction of a Home Funeral," an article from the March 2009 Smithsonian Magazine that features Crossings.
Greening Your Final Arrangements, a recent article from Green America Magazine.
Click here to read our 2012 year-end news and summary of accomplishments.
Watch "Home Funerals, Tending to Their own," a video from UPI News that features Beth Knox of Crossings, from October 29, 2008.
Here's a link to a recent story from "Seven Days", a Vermont Newsweekly, in connection with our recent workshop in Shelburne, VT.
The Washington Post had a front page article (June 5, 2005) on the work of Crossings with stories of several families in the Washington area helped by us. Here is the link.
Another useful article from the Boulder Weekly archive. Please feel free to contact us for further information.
Recent Workshops:
We have formed Crossings groups in these areas where we have held workshops. Please contact us if you live in one of these areas and are interested in joining.
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Annapolis, MD - January 21st, 2012
Boulder, Colorado - September 21 - 24, 2011
Boulder, Colorado - October 7-8, 2010
Prescott, Arizona - May 21-22, 2010
Annapolis, Maryland - March 19-20, 2010
Cambridge, Massachusetts - January 29-30, 2010
Greensboro, North Carolina - November 13-14, 2009
Boulder, Colorado - October 3 2009
Montreal, Canada - August 29, 2009 - Portland, Oregon - May 9, 2009
- Baltimore, Maryland - February 28, 2009
- Mansfield Center, Connecticut - January 24, 2009
- Brattleboro, Vermont - October 17-18, 2008
- Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada - April 26, 2008
- Baltimore MD - March 8, 2008
- Devon, PA - Feb 23, 2008
- Ann Arbor, Michigan - Jan. 11-12, 2008
- Charlottesville, VA - December 7-8, 2007
- Camden, Maine - November 9-10, 2007
- Asheville, NC - October 26-27, 2007