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Estate Planning, Trust and Probate & Probate Litigation Sections Meeting (virtual)

POSTPONED--Let's Explore End-of-Life Doulas - Holistic Support for Life's Final Act

SPEAKERS
Amy Shelf | Spears and Shelf, LLP
Sarah Hill | East Bay Doula for the Dying
Linda Suhr | Autumn of Life Planning

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The April MCBA Estate Planning, Trust and Probate & Probate Litigation Sections Meeting presentation, Let's Explore End-of-Life Doulas - Holistic Support for Life's Final Act, will be held virtually on Wednesday, April 17th from 12:00 to 1:00 PM via a Zoom Webinar.

Join us for a fireside chat with Estate Attorney Amy Shelf, Spears & Shelf, LLP, and end-of-life doulas Linda Suhr, Autumn of Life Planning and Sarah Hill, East Bay Doula for the Dying, LLC. While you may have heard about the ways in which doulas support the dying, in our time together, you’ll learn how they are also helping people at any stage of life prepare for death. Come explore the ways in which we can shore up our collective efforts to inform and empower our clients for the many decisions they may face as they plan for the end of life.

Time will be reserved for questions and discussions.

***For those that are not able to attend but interested in the post-meeting recording, we require that you Register for the Event. Once the presentation is over, if the recording is adequate, we will send it to those that were not able to attend. If the recording is distorted and can not be viewed, MCBA will refund your registration fee. MCBA does not provide CLE for viewing recordings post presentation.***

Paul Gruwell and Julia Butler
Co-Chairs, MCBA Probate Litigation and Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Sections

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To receive MCLE credit, you must connect by digital device; i.e., tablet or computer. Call in by telephone only will not qualify. This activity is approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California. MCBA is a certified provider: Provider #411.

People with disabilities and/or special requests should contact MCBA regarding reasonable accommodations.

1.0 CLE | General

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Denise Belli | Email

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Date and Location

Wednesday | April 17, 2024
12:00-1:00P

Zoom Webinar

Speaker Information

Amy Shelf

Spears and Shelf, LLP

Amy Shelf has been an estate planning attorney for almost 25 years, and a trained death doula for two years. Amy received her J.D. (with all sorts of exciting honors!) from UC College of the Law, San Francisco, where she performed research and writing in the fields of tax, wills & trusts, and assisted conception. While in law school, she interned with the San Francisco Probate Department, which taught her as much about human psychology as it did about probate practice. Amy did her death doula training with Going With Grace, and since then she has served as a resource for friends, colleagues, and clients, helping to expand everyone’s ideas about the support and options available at the end of life.

Amy loves words and astrology, she dances at every opportunity, and she sings with Conspiracy of Venus, a women’s a capella alt-choir. Amy’s spouse owns succulence: life and garden and they have two children.

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Sarah Hill

East Bay Doula for the Dying

As an end-of-life doula, Sarah provides support to those who are dying, and their constellation of caregivers. She approaches her work from an emotionally engaged and intuitively aware place, while also tending to the pragmatic essentials needed at the end of life. Sarah’s path to becoming a doula began in early childhood, but she resisted its pull until her forties. At the height of her consulting career supporting large-scale change management efforts in the corporate sector, the call to pivot to what is arguably the greatest change we each will undergo had become too loud to ignore. Sarah is humbled each day by those she encounters in her work and often marvels at the expansiveness of the human heart. Taking the path less traveled has helped her round out her own edges, too: exchanging achievement for fulfillment is among the best decisions of her life. Sarah began her private practice, East Bay Doula for the Dying, LLC in 2019, and is a founding member of the Bay Area End of Life Doula Alliance (ELDA).

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Linda Suhr

Autumn of Life Planning

After caring for her partner on his journey with Alzheimer's Disease and peaceful death at home, Linda found her calling as an End-of-Life Doula. She holistically supports those who are actively dying and their loved ones in the medley of care needed at this sacred time. She also assists those who are relatively healthy to deeply reflect on essential end-of-life considerations and organize their wishes, instructions and practical information in writing thus providing an invaluable gift to loved ones. Linda began Autumn of Life Planning in 2019 and is a founding member of Sonoma County End of Life Doula Alliance. Previously Linda taught multiple subjects and English as a Second Language to K-12, college and adult students. She and her partner spent three years sailing the East Coast and Caribbean aboard their 45-foot sloop, Wayward Wind. Linda landed in Santa Rosa where she enjoys hiking, gardening, yoga and friends.

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