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Sacramento, CA

June 2-4 2025

Hyatt Regency Sacramento & SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Engage in cutting-edge learning. Empower the senior living profession. Elevate residents' quality of life.Register now for Elevate: CALA's Spring Conference & Trade Show for the latest in workforce development, dementia care, technology, and earn RCFE CEUs (BRN credits are also offered).Regardless of your focus area, this program is built for all Assisted Living, Memory Care and CCRC professionals!

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Bridging life and death with stories that wake people up before it's too late.

Listen & Awaken

Helping midlife audiences live with intention—by learning from the dying.

Witness & Transform

Where death literacy meets soul work—let's talk about what truly matters.

Speak & Soften

Transforming final regrets into today's wake-up calls—one story at a time.

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Social Media Guru

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Nay-Slayer

Beth Davis

Experience Coordinator

Urgent Messages From Just Up the Road

A collective of wisdom from those who have gone before us - deathbed shares from those desperate to leave a contributory legacy. Carefully distilled, curated, and brought to life by marrying the pearls of wisdom with relevant relatable and often humorous stories adding levity and making it more digestible, all the while staying true to the mission of increasing the quality of life of the reader.

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SPECIAL OFFER - FOR EVERYONE WHO PRE-ORDERS DAVID'S BOOKS, DUE OUT IN EARLY 2026, HE WILL PERSONALLY INSCRIBE THEM WITH A CUSTOM MESSAGE OF YOUR CHOOSING AND SIGN IT. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE REACH OUT TO DAVID THROUGH THE EMAIL WITH YOUR DESIRED MESSAGE. AND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

Go Fly Your Kite

A Handbook For the Living, offers answers to life's important questions to help you proactively abolish end of life grief caused by regret. Infused with humor and deeply personal anecdotes, David's urgent and inspirational message of taking action, is highly motivational, urging us to avoid this common self-inflicted pain. A born storyteller and distiller of wisdom, his book is a practical handbook for the living.

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What’s in a word? A LOT. Not one to follow in the herd, back in the late 90’s while working as an Industrial Organizational Psychologist for Network Equipment Technologies, a .com startup in Silicon Valley who’s largest client was the federal government, namely the military, as the Human Resource Trainer and Developer, David questioned; “why do we call these things “work”shops? Nobody likes the term “work”, it’s an immediate turnoff, no wonder people groan and grumble about attending. Plus, the way I design these sessions, it’s more fun than work. We should call these “fun”shops”. And the title stuck. Funshops are just that, a fun and creative way to broach, engage, immerse and learn about a variety of topics, many, challenging, sensitive, delicate or complex topics such as end of life considerations.

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David is featured in Carmel Living and Cypress Coast Living, two respected regional lifestyle magazines.

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David’s message is powerful and timely. He challenges his audience to re-evaluate their priorities. At the same time, he is a consummate storyteller often going off script to include the audience, this is where he shines, guaranteeing that no presentation will be the same. No one leaves the room the same person they entered as.

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Our Team

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My

Publications

COMING SOON

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Workshops or Funshops?

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