April 14, 2025

Ep. 496 Visual Storytelling for End-of-Life Planning with Jill Greenbaum

1 hour

Learn how the art of Visual Storytelling can enhance end-of-life education and serve as a tool for advance care planning.

My guest Jill Greenbaum is a contemplative chaplain and advocate of conscious living and dying. She completed chaplaincy training at the Upaya Zen Center and integrates her experience in psychology, education, visualization, and trauma-informed teaching into her work helping people explore their choices for end-of-life planning. She discusses how she utilizes visual storytelling in her work and why it is a powerful tool. Learn more at her website:

jillgreenbaum.com

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This episode includes:

How Jill was drawn to visual storytelling and applying it to end-of-life planning

What is visual storytelling and how is it used

Why images can convey messages more powerfully than text

What is “graphic medicine”

Tips for more effective end-of-life planning and conversations

How to incorporate visual storytelling into end-of-life education

How visual storytelling can be used to create a visual obituary and a graphic recording for a celebration of life

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