free gathering
Samhain Circle
Celebrating the turn of the witches new year. honoring death & rebirth.
Join us for this hour-long sacred circle to observe Samhain, an ancient Celtic pagan festival to close the harvest season and open the dark days of the year. Bring your ancestors, guides, and goddesses closer. Set intentions. Release. Celebrate what comes next.
november 1 at 10:30am mountain time
held on Zoom
"In the human growth cycle, Samhain corresponds to the period of old age when wisdom, freedom of spirit and clarity are experienced."
— Caitlin Matthews
Samhain is a threshold night when the veil between worlds grows thin. A time of fire and clearing, releasing old energy, and tapping into the potential in the air. It's a magical night to commune with your guides and ancestors, and honor the wisdom of letting things die so new life can emerge.
The darkness of the year opens here, inviting us to tend to our inner worlds and listen to what wants to be born.
Our circle will begin with a guided meditation and intention setting. For what we're grieving and releasing - and what we're calling in and making room for. We’ll channel ancestor messages through automatic writing, experience holy-fire-informed Reiki and energy healing, and close with eulogy writing for our own losses.
Celebrate the turn of the wheel in sacred community with us
We can't wait to meet you all.
november 1 at 10:30am mountain time
held on Zoom
Your hosts
Dr. Melissa Delizia
Melissa Delizia, MSW, LSW, DSW (she/they) is a death doula, educator, professional coach and social worker whose work lives at the intersection of sacred care, transformative education, and social justice. With a Doctorate in Social Work and certifications in grief companionship, deathcare, and sacred ceremony, Melissa brings both clinical insight and spiritual depth to their offerings.
Their practice is rooted in ancestral connection, mediumship, and energy work, with a focus on holding space for queer and trans individuals navigating death, dying, and grief. Melissa approaches this work with reverence, tending to the liminal with embodied presence and a belief in the healing power of collective care and ritual.
As an educator and adjunct professor, they are dedicated to reshaping how death is taught and understood—centering marginalized experiences, challenging systems of harm, and cultivating spaces where grief and identity are honored in all their complexity. Whether teaching or learning, Melissa holds a deep commitment to equitable deathwork and heart-centered education.
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.