About Us

Our History

The Project was founded in 1977 by Stephen Levine and is the outgrowth of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Living/Dying Project has been offering services in the Bay Area since 1987 under the direction of Dale Borglum, Ph.D.

Dale founded and directed the first spiritually- based hospice in the United States, the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation for the past 25 years. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness and on caregiving as a spiritual practice.

Services

The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual support for persons facing life-threatening illness and for those who care for them, as well as educational services.
Our Programs are offered in Marin County and our client services are free of charge.

Our Open Circle Program provides one-to-one spiritual support for persons with a life-threatening illness. It is intended to complement other service agencies as well as traditional medicine.

Our Next Step Program is an introductory, four-week program for persons who are newly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. The program provides one-to-one spiritual support, teaches skills to cope with stress, and begins the journey of spiritual healing.

Educational services and training are available nationwide and internationally to health care providers and the general public. Please contact our office for further information.

What do we mean by spiritual support?

We welcome all spiritual paths. The Project embraces the basic principles of the world's religions: invocation, compassion, and healing, and applies them to dying and caregiving. We believe that healing and transformation are available to those who are truly open to it.

Some questions to consider:

What does healing mean in the context of life-threatening illness?

How can the path to healing be invoked and cultivated?

Can we fully live in the present that includes happiness and sadness, wellness and illness?

How can we directly experience the essence in each of us that is untouched by death?

What is conscious dying?

Staff

Steven Englander, Senior Volunteer
Lulu Torbet, Senior Volunteer
Sandy Scull, Senior Volunteer

Advisory Board
Angeles Arrien
Jerry Brown
Fritijof Capra
Joan Halifax
Jack Kornfield
Anne Lamott
Joanna Macy
Wayne Muller
John Robbins
Sogyal Rinpoche

Supporting Us

The Living/Dying Project is a not-for profit, 501(3)(c) organization offering free services to our clients.

Almost all of our support is from individual donations.

You can best support our Project with financial donations, referrals, and with your prayers and kind-hearted wishes.

If you would like to make a donation please contact us.

Volunteers

We are currently not taking any new volunteers at this time.

Contacting Us

Email: info@livingdying.org

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(We currently only mail one newsletter per year).
Please let us know how you heard about us.

Post: Living/Dying Project, P.O. Box 357, Fairfax, CA 94978-0357

Telephone: (415) 456-3915

Contact information for Stephen Levine & Ram Dass*

*Please contact Stephen or Ram Dass directly. We do not provide any further information.

Photos by Curtis Grindahl