Arrange a Presentation for Your Next Event

We tailor presentations to meet the specific needs of the group, including libraries, senior centers, hospice and hospital in-services for staff and volunteers, adult education in schools and churches, food co-ops, civic organizations, environmental and conservation groups, town cemetery trustees, and more.

Topics we include:

• Facts about contemporary disposition processes and products
• Why natural burial is a sustainable disposition option
• How and why natural burial works
• Funeral poverty and the choice to bury
• Natural burial in municipal cemeteries
• Land trusts and conservation burial
• ​The purpose of Natural Burial New Hampshire
  

To arrange a presentation in your area, contact [email protected].

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Meet Our Presenters

Lee Webster
Lakes Region, White Mtns, Upper Valley

Lee has been educating  about natural and conservation burial,  home funerals, and funeral reform since 2007. Her work in steering NH Funeral Resources & Education as well as several national nonprofits, including the Green Burial Council, informs her writing, speaking, and presenting. She is an instructor at OLLI, OSHER, and RedesigningtheEnd.com and the author of Changing Landscapes. 

Sarah Arslanian
Seacoast and Southeastern NH

Sarah is a practiced speaker on matters of death education, with a special interest in natural burial. She is the executive director of Lotus and Lavender Natural Burial, a nonprofit working to start a natural burial cemetery in the Seacoast. Sarah educates communities about natural burial and related topics, and advises private individuals and families about home burial and doula services.

Marsha Campaniello
Concord area and Southwestern NH

​Marsha is a veteran speaker, presenter, and trainer in the US and abroad in real estate valuation and banking software. Among her interests and areas of expertise, she has hosted and led garden tours for Central NH Permaculture, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire, and various garden clubs. She is a guest instructor at OLLI at UNH.

Michele Lovell
Coos and northern Grafton counties above the Notch, Seacoast

Michele taught Death and Dying at UNH for over a decade, teaching students to think about alternatives to standard practices. She has won numerous awards for her teaching style and has been recognized for excellence in the field of palliative care. She is a past member of the Hospice Help Foundation and an active board director of the NH Health Care Coalition.  

Julie Lanoie
​Carroll County and the Mount Washington Valley

Julie has been speaking and instructing about natural burial and home options for nearly two decades. She is well-known in the Conway-Tamworth area and beyond as the go-to for answers when it comes to all things hospice, home care, home funeral, and home burial. Born and bred in Carroll County, she is intimately familiar with local customs and people who are poised to help.

Bob Cook
Keene Valley and the Monadnock Region

With deep ancestral ties to the Monadnock Region, Bob has long-term commitments to organic gardening, energy conservation and environmental preservation.  A builder and generalist, with frequent forays into human services and community activism, he is now driven to share alternatives to generally accepted after-death practices….based upon intimate experience, historical perspective, and ecological impacts. ​