About EKRF México Centro – EKR México Centro

evolving our death culture

Our story

About EKRF MXC

We are people transformed by loss, grief, illness, death, and by Elisabeth’s work. As a result, we share this in common, and are deeply committed to evolving the current death culture.

The dream of our meaningful and active contribution to our loss, grief, and end-of-life culture started long ago, in each of our individual lives and as we followed the inner guidance that eventually brought us together.

Some of us were already working together when we met Ken Ross, son of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, at the 2nd biennial Dreaming & Healing conference in San Miguel de Allende in March 2019, and we felt like a family gratefully reunited. Together we brainstormed, masterminded, and planted seeds that are manifesting the opportunity to step up and bring the totality of ourselves in support of this important and necessary cultural shift.

Our Core Team

Committed to sustaining and promoting this cultural change from a stance of presence, humility, compassionate service, acceptance and love, we are a transdisciplinary team made up of psychologists, birth and death doulas, thanatologists, palliative care doctors, caregivers, alternative medicine and somatic therapists, artists and creatives. We compassionately accompany the terminally ill and their families, as well as people who are in transition and bereavement processes, and we train others in the art and state of being compassionate companions.

Wilka is from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. She is a transpersonal psychologist, ordained minister, death doula, grief counselor, dream worker, educator, facilitator, writer, Tai Chi, Qigong & Taoist Inner Arts instructor, musician, photographer, performance artist, silversmith, baker, and mythmaker. Her interests include neurobiology of trauma, loss, grief, and relationships, conscious living & dying, ecopsychology, confectionery arts, and wine culture.

Felix is Mexican American, an archetypal-jungian psychotherapist, body-mind-movement somatic therapist, dream worker, mythologist, storyteller, Aikido sensei and educator who works with individuals’ stories and their relationships to these stories in order to bring change and healing on an emotional, physical & spiritual level.

Sandra, from Mexico City, is the medical director and one of the head doulas of the EKR Life Death and Transition Doula team, a practitioner of Holistic, Naturopathic and Herbal Medicine, she is a thanatologist, Logotherapist, Biomagnetism therapist, midwife, workshop facilitator. She is a companion in healing processes after Gestational and Perinatal loss. She is a faithful defender of animals and nature.

Jess is from Ciudad de México. She is a dance therapist and Certified Dreamwork Professional, helping people to know and develop themselves personally and spiritually through creative expression toward greater growth, healing, and transformation. Jess also specializes in social media optimization and web content development.

Montse specializes in dance movement therapy and body movement. Certified sound-wave massage therapist & deep tissue and skeletal maneuvering, Montse teaches Frida Kaplan method of eutonic pregnancy & birth, and the Feldenkrais method of self-awareness through movement and functional integration.

Ken is Swiss American, son of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Ken is the founder and president of the EKR Foundation. He also served on the board of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center. Ken was the principal care provider for his mother in the last 9 years of her life until her passing in 2004. A professional photographer, he has photographed 107 countries, surpassing his goal of 101.

José, from the Okanagan, creates art as a meditative tool, exhibited in galleries and private and corporate collections worldwide. Jose founded Inner Immersion, LLC and Immersive Arts, LLP. He is a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, and featured in the Netflix docu-series, Surviving Death, and the Dr. Oz show. He regularly speaks on his near-death experience, and on Art as a Conduit for Healing.

Deanna is from the USA. A leading voice in the grassroots movement for dying well, Deanna feels unity and collaboration empower us to help the most people. A Hospice RN, she founded End of Life Practitioners Collective, is Chair of the End of Life Doula Council of National Hospice Palliative & Palliative Care Organization, founding member & 1st VP of National End of Life Doula Alliance. She is founder & CEO of Quality of Life Care.

Amy is from the USA. Founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, she holds an MA in Religion and Education. She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, (CD)DONA birth doula, hospital chaplain, Birthing Mama® Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Trainer and a regular contributor to PhillyVoice wherein she writes on mindfulness, spirituality, parenting, ethics, birthing, and dying.

Dayana is from Michoacán, México. A medicine woman upholding the traditions of the original peoples, Dayana focuses on whole-person enrichment and strengthening personal and corporate relationships through her transformative work as a ritualist, teacher, moon dancer, temazcal facilitator, mother, tarot reader, workshop facilitator and ritual organizer.

About Elisabeth

Elisabeth's Biography

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. In this work she proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief as a pattern of adjustment. These five stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In general, individuals experience most of these stages, though in no defined sequence, after being faced with the reality of their impending death. The five stages have since been adopted by many as applying to the survivors of a loved one’s death, as well. She is a 2007 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 had taught, in her estimation, 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered the The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at the University of Harvard, on the theme, On Death and Dying.

Highlights

Books written : 23+
Translations to : 35+ languages
Books sold : 10 million+
Hospices started : 100+
Lectures given : weekly
Inspired students : 125,000+
Career years : 1965 - 1995

Important Points

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About EKRF MXC

Our Core Team

Wilka Roig

Felix Chancellor

Sandra Reyes

Jess Miramontes

Montse Brito

Ken Ross

José Hernández

Deanna Cochran

Amy Wright Glenn

Dayana Paz

About Elisabeth

Elisabeth's Biography

Highlights

Important Points

ALLIANCES