We’re consistently evolving and elevating the way we care for and honor people. Join us to learn the new ways you can honor your loved one or include in your own plan.

What you’ll learn

• The purpose and importance of ceremony and ritual

• How we weave ceremony into different steps of our process

• All about the new option to transform ashes into stones with Parting Stone

• How Home Vigils, Viewings, & Witness Cremations can be opportunities for meaning and intimacy

• About the Celebration of Life options available for families

• About the enhanced Memorial Tree Ceremonies & Scatterings

• How you can now take all your loved one’s Tree Tea at your home in some cases

Special guest

Summer Downs (she/they) | Arrangement & Ceremony Specialist

I have a lifelong background engaging in community care work in different capacities around the world, and I am now devoting my attention to providing care at the time of death. The unexpected death of my beloved sister, and my journey with grief that followed, led me to discover my deep and abiding passion for holistic deathcare. As a trained death doula, I consider it a true honor to offer intentional, compassionate care to families and their loved ones at Be A Tree.

My greatest desire is that every departed loved one is treated with the utmost dignity, and that you are filled with the peaceful knowledge that your loved one is being cared for in a personalized, intimate way. I will speak your loved one’s name, light a candle for them, play their favorite music, sing to them, hang their picture up, or read their favorite poems while they are in our care, so that their final journey is unique and sacred.