Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time ​yet to come.​

Griefwalker

“Stephen Jenkinson’s documentary touches all areas of end of life and how by avoiding the inevitable we are causing more pain.” ~ Barbara

This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counseling team at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he says, is “a wretched anxiety and an existential terror” even when there is no pain. Indicting the practice of palliative care itself, he has made it his life’s mission to change the way we die – to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life.

Stephen Jenkinson – Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

Steven Jenkinson addresses our death phobic culture with unique perspectives.