For over 20 years, Maribeth Goodman has been a mediator, facilitator and conflict resolution skills instructor. Today she brings those gifts to the topics of aging, dying and afterlife.
Maribeth weaves together her many years of experience and research with profoundly moving personal stories. These stories explore the differences between her mother’s death in 2008 and her father’s death in 2014. Together, they inform her ongoing commitment to assisting others shift their awareness and consciousness on these leading edge topics.
Maribeth was an early collaborator with the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ (IONS) Conscious Aging program, as well as with the Shared Crossing Project’s early groundbreaking research on the shared death experience (SDE). She is a volunteer with The Alliance for Living and Dying Well, trained in guiding participants through the Five Wishes, an advance health care directive. Maribeth has facilitated The Conversation Project and has served as a hospice volunteer with Rocky Mountain Hospice.
“I believe we resist aging because we fear dying; the one experience everyone on the planet shares and no one wants to talk about.
Having conversations about dying well, framed within the context of aging well, creates understanding of the continuum; the cycle from birth to death.
Life and Death are not opposites. Living and Aging are what happen in between birth and death.
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