We Are Mortal: A Corporate Workshop for Creativity, Purpose, and Resilience

We Are Mortal is an interactive workshop that helps teams and leaders reflect on mortality in order to live and work with greater clarity, purpose, and connection. Drawing from contemplative traditions, modern mindfulness practices and existentialism psychology, the workshop transforms conversations about death—often avoided in professional life—into powerful tools for resilience, collaboration, and meaning.

What Participants Gain

  • Clarity of purpose: Reconnect with what matters most, personally and professionally.

  • Renewed creativity: Face impermanence to release perfectionism and take bold risks — critical for innovation.

  • Resilience and adaptability: Learn to face uncertainty and change with steadiness.

  • Team connection: Engage in meaningful dialogue that deepens trust and empathy.

  • Wellbeing at work: Reduce stress by confronting fears and shifting perspectives.

  • Legacy building: Identify and create positive impact through intentional actions.

Workshop Components

  • Grounding & Reflection Practices: Breathwork, meditation, and guided awareness.

  • The Nine Contemplations of Death: A structured framework for exploring impermanence and priorities.

  • Fear Buckets Framework: Identify and reframe core fears (body, afterlife, FOMO, unfulfilled life).

  • Dyad & Group Dialogue: Confidential peer discussions that build vulnerability and trust.

  • Integration & Action: Practical steps for aligning personal values with professional goals.

Why It Matters for Companies Format Options + Pitch Deck

Organizations thrive when employees are:

  • Engaged in purposeful work.

  • Resilient in the face of change and uncertainty.

  • Connected through empathy, trust, and shared humanity.

This workshop empowers teams to bring their whole selves to work—unlocking creativity, collaboration, and wellbeing.

  • 90-Minute Session (introductory)

  • Half-Day Workshop (deep dive + dialogue)

  • Full-Day Retreat (integrated with strategy and leadership goals)

  • Pitch deck

For pricing email Jennye Garibaldi at jennyegee@gmail.com.

About the facilitator:

Kara Hoppe, MFT, is a psychotherapist, death doula, teacher, author, existentialist, and mama. She has spent over 15 years as a relational therapist working with individuals, couples, and groups toward healing and growth, and guiding clients to become grounded, integrated people with better access to their own instincts, wisdom, and creativity. She has trained with Stephen Jenkinson (author of Die Wise) and Molyn Leszcz (coauthor of Group Therapy) as well as completed Alua Arthur’s Going with Grace Death Doula training program and runs groups for those living the dying part of life and leads a monthly Grief Circle in Joshua Tree. Hoppe is the coauthor of Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents, a 2021 INDIES finalist. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Parents Magazine, Psychology Today, and Fatherly, among other publications. She lives with her husband and two children in Pioneertown, CA, and sees clients in private practice via telehealth.

Testimonials

  • This workshop gave me more than I could have imagined. Who would have thought that talking about death and dying could be so deeply healing and transformative? Kara is an exceptional facilitator and guide. She shares her expertise as a psychotherapist and death doula with such grace, vulnerability, and love that the entire space opened—heart by heart. We laughed, we cried, and we reckoned with mortality through a lens of gentleness and connection. As a psychotherapist with over 15 years in the field, I’ve participated in my fair share of workshops and groups—but We Are Mortal had a profound impact on me. I experienced a deep emotional release as I explored my own mortality and that of my loved ones. I’m leaving with powerful themes to bring into my clinical work, as well as tender questions to sit with personally and in my relationships. I’m truly grateful for Kara’s workshop and highly recommend it to anyone who is ready to make space for a meaningful reckoning with mortality.

    Ana Santaolalla, LMFT

  • Kara Hoppe is an incredible therapist and facilitator who during her “We Are Mortal” workshop changed the way I view death—and life. Her warmth, wisdom, and generosity made it safe to explore all sorts of difficult emotions. Through her guidance, we were able to look at death not as something to fear, but as something deeply human and even beautiful. Kara helped me shift my relationship with mortality in a way that was both healing and empowering. I left feeling more alive, more connected and far less afraid. Highly recommended, I wish everyone could experience this transformative workshop!

    Carissa Kosta

  • I’ve always been interested in death as a distant, abstract concept. I went into Kara’s workshop excited to hear her perspective as someone who works so intimately and intentionally with death. What I wasn’t expecting was that I would be personally, lovingly asked to become intimate and intentional with my OWN death. It was intense, I’ll be honest. But it was worth it. It was so meaningful and beautiful to take such a vulnerable journey with people of all ages and backgrounds. Kara radiates love, truth, and presence and she guided the more overwhelming moments with grace. I cried a lot, I laughed a lot, I got a taste of what it would be like to experience the present moment with pure presence and aliveness. I hope to carry even a fraction of that experience with me as I move forward in my wonderful journey being alive.

    Shannon Purser