The Celebration of Life Experience
From morning to evening, you'll be held through a powerful arc of connection, communiuty, and remembrance. Come for what you need. Leave with what you didn't know was possible.
11:00 am (Wings + Ascend Ticket Holders Only)
11:30 am (General Ticket Holders)
Doors Open
The doors open and the day begins. Take your time with our vendors, whose services and offerings are available for purchase throughout the day, and settle in before the program starts. Private 1:1 readings with our mediums also begin during this time, available by advance appointment only. Booking details are coming soon, so keep an eye out for our reservation page.
12:00 pm
Welcome Gathering
Colleen opens the day with a heartfelt welcome, setting the tone for a gathering built on connection, compassion, and shared understanding. From there, we turn the floor over to powerful personal testimonies from people who have walked through profound loss and found their way forward. These are honest, moving stories, offered not as a roadmap but as a reminder that healing looks different for everyone, and that there is no single right way to grieve. Together, they set the stage for a day of learning, connection, and hope, and remind us that whatever we're carrying, we don't carry it alone.
1:00 pm
Expert Panel: What Do I Do Now? Building a Life Inside Grief
The heart of the day's programming, this expert panel moves past "how do I get over this?" to the question that matters more: how do you build a meaningful life while carrying loss? They explore what building a life inside grief looks like in practice, from the daily and ordinary to the deeper questions of meaning, identity, and hope.
3:00 pm
Featured Keynote
This featured keynote welcomes a nationally recognized voice in the death and dying space, a leader helping people move from avoidance to honest, empowered conversations about mortality, end-of-life planning, and loss. By naming what so many of us leave unspoken, this talk turns hard conversations into a source of clarity and connection. An inspiring keynote designed to leave you with a renewed perspective on healing, hope, and the human experience.
4:00 pm
Community Break
Take time to explore the vendor experience, where a range of services and offerings are available for purchase, connect with others, enjoy refreshments, or simply pause before the evening begins.
5:00 pm
An Evening of Mediumship
We close the day with an evening of evidential mediumship, hosted by Colleen and featuring five additional international professional mediums, all trained in the evidential tradition. Evidential mediumship is grounded in specifics: rather than vague impressions, the mediums aim to share detailed, verifiable information about your loved ones, the kind of details that let you know without a doubt who is coming through. Colleen and the team will work the room throughout the evening, and while not everyone present will receive a personal message, the experience is a shared one. Together, we'll come to see that relationships don't end, they simply change form. Expect messages, tears, laughter, and a great deal of healing.
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