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.
📘 First 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.
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