What is a Death Café?

 The Death Café (www.deathcafe.com) is an international movement founded in England by Jon Underwood, based on the work of Bernard Crettaz. At a Death Cafe, people—often strangers—gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death with the intention of increasing awareness of mortality and help people make the most of their finite lives.  Death Cafes have no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product, or course of action.

We meet as equals—as people who are going to die.  One conversation at a time, we transform our relationship to loss, aging, mortality, dying and death, so we may transform also the way we live. Death Cafés are run in circle format, and everyone has a chance to share questions, ideas, experiences, concerns.

Death Café San Miguel de Allende

Third Monday of the month, 11AM-1PM 

Luna de Queso

Josefina Orozco 10

San Miguel de Allende

Our meetings are an open, respectful and confidential space where people can express their views safely. The Death Café is an opportunity to discuss death without expectations. This is not a group therapy or grief counseling session.

Among the many benefits of talking about death, participating in a Death Café helps us (a) live in the moment, (b) appreciate life more, (c) put things in perspective, (d) identify what really matters, (e) find purpose to our losses, (f) move through our grief, (g) work through our regrets, (h) find greater meaning in our life, (i) come closer to ourselves and one another.

Your host: Wilka Roig, MTP, MFA, transpersonal psychologist, death doula and activist, grief counselor, dreamworker, founder and director of the first Life, Death + Transition Doula school in Latin America www.espaciofim.com of Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro www.ekrmexico.org , leader of the death awareness movement in Latin America www.redlamuerte.org . Affiliate of Death Cafe since 2018.