elevate with the collective: speaker series
Alua Arthur
Alua Arthur, death doula and NY Times Bestselling Author of Briefly Perfectly Human joined us in the Elevate with the Collective Community on Thursday, October 3, 2024. To receive a link to the recording of our conversation with Alua, sign up below. We’ll deliver it to your inbox as soon as it is available.
Alua is the founder of Going with Grace, created to relieve the burden of dying without proper end of life support. Alua and her team support people as they answer the question "What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?" and support family members through and beyond their loved one's death.
We were in conversation about death, her book and how a death doula can help as families face deaths of loved ones. We also touched on psilocybin and end of life during our talk.
Author of BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End, Alua Arthur is the most visible death doula in America today. She is a recovering attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization.
Her TED Talk titled, “Why Thinking About Death Helps You Live a Better Life,” went online in July 2023 and has already received over 1.5 million views. A frequent guest on TV and radio, Arthur has been featured on CBS’s The Doctors and in Disney's Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth, as well as other national media outlets, such as Vogue, InStyle, the Los Angeles Times, The Cut, The New Yorker, New York Times, Marie Claire, and CNN. She has appeared on dozens of podcasts, and a Refinery29 video feature on Arthur and her work received ten million views across social platforms.
She travels the country and the world as a keynote speaker, addressing audiences at medical and end-of-life conferences, universities, seminaries, senior citizens’ communities, and more. Arthur and her team at Going with Grace have trained over 2500 death doulas in 17 countries around the world, growing the movement of circles of care, and she is perpetually on the quest for donuts.
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