The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation (EKRF) is a non-profit organization inspired by the work of psychiatrist, humanitarian and hospice pioneer, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Elisabeth wrote over 23 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages. Her book On Death and Dying celebrates 50 years from its first publication in 1969.
Popularly known for the Five Stages of Grief, Elisabeth is often referred to as “the death and dying lady,” while Elisabeth more aptly referred to herself as the “life and living lady.” Her memoir, The Wheel of Life, tells the amazing stories of a truly inspiring life.
The EKRF and its international branches are dedicated to embracing all of life—including death, encouraging our acceptance of death as an integral part of life, and fomenting our necessary healthy relationship with mortality that allows us to live fuller, more purposeful lives.
Meet Ken, Sylvia, Pepe, Wilka, and Janosh. We came together at the 2nd biennial Dreaming & Healing conference, along with Ian McCartor and Jess Miramontes, in San Miguel this past March 2019, when we discovered just how much our interests and individual life missions overlapped. This led to a more serious discussion about working together. In just five months, we have been able to make connections and enlist colleagues across the republic so we may lay a very strong and solid foundation for the work to come.
EKRF México Centro currently spans six states of central México—Guanajuato, Querétaro, México, Jalisco, Nayarit, and Michoacán—and is dedicated to creating platforms for didactic discussion and facilitating conversations about loss, grief, aging, illness, dying, end-of-life care, death, and beyond.
We stand for compassionate care for the grieving, the dying, and those who love them, fostering awareness of the power of love and forgiveness as essential elements of good living and good dying. Inspired by Elisabeth’s work, teachings, and deeds, we aim to evolve our death culture and bring humanity back to our loss, grief, dying, and end-of-life processes.
We joyfully invite you to celebrate with us the launching and inauguration of the EKRF México Centro, with headquarters in San Miguel de Allende, on August 28th, 2019. Ken Ross, son of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and president of the global EKRF, will be our guest of honor for this momentous milestone.
The occasion will be commemorated with a very special consciousness raising event, Dätha Over Dinner: a dynamic, cultural, historical, informative, and also practical, experience that connects our regional ancestral traditions around loss, grief, dying, and death with the current advancements of the Death Positive movement. The inaugural event includes a glimpse into pre-Hispanic astronomy, an array of ancestral gastronomy flavors and textures, the current relevance of our Mesoamerican cosmology, and an overview of proposal to move from death-phobia toward the more natural life-death-life cycle.
Find out how observing nature teaches us about this ever-present life-death-life cycle, about the small and great festivities of Dä’thä—the “long sleep,” death, in our regional native Otomí language—about the true origins and practices of the Day of the Dead, and how ancestral traditions and the current-day Death Positive movement overlap and greatly enrich us to live more vibrant, fulfilling lives.
We dearly hope you will join us in this important effort to evolve our death culture and add your voice to the conversation.
Contact us: your reservation in advance of the event is required.
