Welcome to the Tapestry Initiative.

Welcome to the Tapestry Initiative website, a place to explore a rich diversity of perspectives related to death, dying and the challenging changes that life continuously presents us. The site also serves as a portal to extensive resources, which can offer support and elucidation to these life transitions. We invite you to draw from and contribute to this resource so that together, we can weave a tapestry of human knowledge and wisdom on this timeless journey.

The Tapestry Initiative offers a community forum and social networking arena where questions, life lessons and wisdom are welcomed appreciatively.  Just added: a series of videos from Janet Graaff's presentation at Boulder Integral on October 22nd.  Click on the Community button  at the top of this page to view these and other interesting videos, pictures, forum discussions and event listings.

Through an exploration of, personal, social, cultural and spiritual lenses we can invigorate lively and meaningful conversation about death, grief and impermanence. Such exchanges can call forth a greater appreciation and joy of this precious life and every moment that we share.

The Tapestry Initiative is dedicated to the fundamental importance of inquiry and contemplation on impermanence. We realize the unique requirements of individuals, families and organizations in taking on the challenge of this inquiry in the service of growth and healing on a broad scale.

We are planning to produce a full-length documentary in order to open this discussion to a global audience.

Although we highlight perspectives from a variety of sources that offer care for the individual, we also acknowledge that the shared experience of death and change ultimately remains the great mystery beyond what any language can hope to express. Still, it is our great good fortune as human beings to be able to humbly probe the questions that arise for all of us who seek to inquire. The insight we can discover with this contemplation becomes a path to awaken the goodness in both ourselves and others, which is no less than our inherent nature. Read more about us here.