Life Now & Beyond: Teacher's Guide

Life Now & Beyond: A Six-Week Course - Teacher's GuideEvery adult in your community will eventually face the death of someone they love. Most are not prepared. Most have never been taught how to begin. The conversations that families desperately need to have - about wishes, about documents, about what comes next — are too often the conversations that never happen, until it is too late.Life Now & Beyond: A Six-Week Course changes that. Built around two published books by Alice Truman - When a Loved One Dies and Not My Favorite Subject Either, But...- and the companion Life Now & Beyond app, this complete teacher's guide gives any thoughtful adult everything they need to lead a meaningful six-week course on grief, preparation, and the work that families have been avoiding for generations.Designed for use in churches, hospices, senior centers, libraries, and community organizations, the course is secular and works in any setting. Whether you are a clergy member, a hospice volunteer, ministry leader, adult education coordinator, or simply a caring person in your community, this guide gives you a structured, professional, sensitive way to bring this work to the people around you.Inside you will find six fully scripted modules with timing and discussion guides, eighteen reproducible handouts for participants, sensitivity guidance for the hardest moments in the room, when-to-refer protocols for participants who need professional support, and front-to-back integration with the Life Now & Beyond books and app. Even if this is your first time teaching, the guide is designed to take you from preparation to confident delivery, week by week.Participants leave the course with real conversations begun, practical preparation work started, and a clear path forward. Six weeks from now, they will not be done - this work never finishes - but they will have started, and they will know how to keep going.All it takes is the willingness to walk a small group of people through one of the most important conversations of their lives.Prepare today. Be ready for tomorrow. Read more