Throughout our lives, we are confronted with losses both small and large. Grief, the heart’s natural response to loss, is a constellation of emotions that merits great attention and care. With mindful effort, each of us can transform the pain of loss into growth, healing, and inspiration for the future.

We offer Bereavement Services to everyone in the Bay Area community who has experienced a significant loss, such as the death of a loved one, an accumulation of relationship transitions, or the loss of an ability or identity. Our model of bereavement care is unique for its foundational view that we are all interconnected through the reality of impermenance, and the possibility of personal transformation through calming the mind, balancing the emotions, and attending to the present moment.

No matter how long it has been since your loss, Zen Hospice wholeheartedly invites you join us, if you could benefit from good company and compassionate guidance.  Our programs cultivate healing for people from all walks of life who seek a greater sense of ease in day-to-day life.

Carlyle Coash is the Bereavement Coordinator at Zen Hospice Project. He has been a hospice chaplain for the last eight years, working in both Colorado and California, where he lead a variety of bereavement events and groups. Carlyle is Section Leader of the Spiritual Caregiving Section for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and has been actively involved in advocacy for spiritual care in healthcare settings. Carlyle has also taught nationally and internationally for hospice and palliative care conferences and other professional organizations. He is Board Certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains and has a Masters Degree in Buddhist Studies. You may contact Carlyle directly here.

The simple and rustic "Enso" (Japanese for circle) is a symbol for human wholeness and completeness that is based on the acceptance and conscious recognition that we are light and dark, strong and weak, pure and impure.  As this is the heart of any truly liberating and healing grief work, the Enso is a particularly fitting symbol for ZHP’s Bereavement Services.