Coffin Club for Professional Helpers

Bookless Book Club for Helping Professionals

A book club for people too tired to read — but not too dead inside to talk about it.

Are you a counselor funeral director social worker chaplain death doula or otherwise professionally entangled with grief loss and the tender mess of being human?

Welcome to the Bookless Book Club — a low-pressure high-compassion space to explore themes of grief death burnout and meaning-making. Each session centers around a featured book — but don’t stress. Reading is encouraged not required. Whether you’ve devoured every page skimmed a summary or just vibed with the title you belong here.

Sept 8th we will do a meet and greet, book discussion will start Sept 15th!

📘 Book: Confessions of a Funeral Director by Caleb Wilde

With raw honesty and dark humor Caleb Wilde pulls back the curtain on the funeral industry — exposing the emotional toll unexpected beauty and spiritual reckoning that comes from working with the dead. It’s a powerful read for anyone who supports the living through their most vulnerable moments. (Also it's under 250 pages or 4 hours on audio — so you’ve got options.)

💀 Why this matters:

Over 70% of counselors report feeling unprepared or undertrained in grief counseling.

And many helping professionals have never explored their own relationship with death — even while holding space for others facing it daily.

This book club offers a rare chance to pause reflect and (gently) confront our own mortality — because we can’t support others in the dark if we’re afraid to sit in it ourselves.

🪦 Facilitated by Emily Vass MHR MA

Indigenous Deathworker Therapist and Collector of Gallows Humor

Emily brings a grounded culturally attuned and refreshingly honest approach to these conversations — blending professional insight with the kind of humor that keeps us all sane.

Come as you are. Read if you can. Reflect either way.

This is a gathering for those who carry grief in their work — and maybe even in their bones. Let’s unpack it together page or no page.

*One price access to all the sessions

Host or Publisher Emily Vass