Death Over Tea Workshop

Monthly INSPIRE Studio Workshops

EVERY THIRD THURSDAY | 7:00-8:30 PM | INSPIRE STUDIO | AGES 18+ | FREE 

Stand-alone workshop discussion for adults 18+. No special experience required. 

Death Over Tea ​

INSTRUCTOR: Christine Soza  

DATES: 2/27, 3/19, 4/16, 5/21, 6/18, 7/16, 8/20, 9/17, 10/15, 11/19, 12/17

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MAY SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar

At the intersection of story, service, and systems transformation, Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar is an experience designer redefining how nations honor, support, and accompany Veterans and their loved ones as they age, face end-of-life, experience bereavement, and navigate survivorship. An internationally recognized applied scholar-practitioner, she integrates public health and compassionate community design to create culturally responsive, trauma-informed care experiences.

As Founder & CEO of In Their Honor, she leads a creative consulting practice that designs relational, community-rooted experiences—using storytelling, arts-based inquiry, and community engagement to strengthen how societies understand and care for military-connected communities. Her work centers dignity, belonging, relational healing, and cultural humility, while bridging policy, practice, and lived experience to foster sustainable systems of care.

Through her national leadership with PsychArmor, Dr. Galloway-Salazar has shaped strategies and learning experiences that deepen military cultural competency across healthcare, education, and community systems. She is the creative architect behind Caring for Veterans Through the End of Life, a landmark course collection that has reshaped Veteran-centered end-of-life education and influenced how professionals approach caregiving, grief, and moral injury across the continuum of care.

She also co-leads the first global Veteran-focused doula education initiative with the International Doula Life Movement, advancing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate clinical care, community support, and culturally grounded end-of-life practices.

An Army Veteran, spouse to a Combat Veteran, end-of-life doula educator, and George W. Bush Institute Veteran Leadership Scholar (Class of 2025), she has spent more than two decades designing environments where military-connected individuals feel seen, heard, and held. Her creative scholarship spans theatre and dialogue-driven community experiences through her role as Artist in Residence with Grief Dialogues, including works such as In Honor (2026), In the Wake of Life (2026), Grief Dialogues: Memorial Day (2025), and Can I Trust You, performed at End Well (2024).

Recognized as USA Today’s 2024 Woman of the Year for Georgia and the Inaugural Georgia Woman Veteran of the Year (2022), she contributes her expertise to national advisory bodies focused on caregiving, end-of-life care, and compassionate communities, while mentoring doctoral students and emerging scholars exploring military-connected well-being and death education.

Across stages, classrooms, and global community spaces, her work is guided by a simple conviction: care is not a service to be delivered, but a relationship to be honored—one rooted in dignity, presence, and shared humanity. 

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:  

• Death over Tea is a safe space to talk about death and dying. Organic conversations that allow people to begin to feel more comfortable with talking about death among one another, that in turn, can assist someone to navigate those difficult conversations with their loved ones. 

TAKEAWAYS:  

• Participants will leave with a sense of community and support, knowing that they are not alone and perhaps with a little less fear around death. Helping to talk about this seemingly difficult conversation can help people to feel empowered and inspired. Speakers may provide handouts or digitals resources. 

MATERIALS TO BRING:

• Curiosity and an open mind & heart 

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Christine Soza is an experienced nurse, Certified End-of-Life Doula and lead trainer for Doulagivers Institute, dedicated to transforming how individuals, caregivers, and communities approach the dying process. With a deep commitment to compassionate presence, she combines her clinical nursing expertise with holistic doula practices to support people physically, emotionally, and spiritually at the end of life. Through her work, Christine empowers both caregivers and doulas to hold space for those nearing death with calming strength and guidance as well as heartfelt care-ensuring that no one ever needs to navigate this journey alone. 

Experience:  

• Over 30 years of Nursing experience including being an Oncology and Hospice Nurse  

• Certified End-of-Life Doula and Lead Trainer for Doulagivers Institute.  

• Volunteer for LEARN Idaho - providing valuable content for the End-of-life learning channel and provides several free educational opportunities to the community. Christine is also a volunteer for the Treasure Valley Honor Guard for honoring nurses in the community.  

Her passions are: Compassion, teaching, supporting rituals, mentoring, service, helping to find purpose and meaning, holding space, empowering, honoring the sacredness of death and life, legacy, listening deeply, honoring