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Our innovative workshops put light
into the world.

  • Nurturing our inner light…sharing light with others. The world needs our light.

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  • Our workshops are the core of what we do. They’re not just about making lamps, though the finished lamps are a beautiful end-product of the workshops. What happens during the workshop, and after the workshop is just as important…

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  • Illuminating life’s journey. Illuminating lives. From cradle to grave, we have initiatives that can ease life’s dark and challenging passages or honor life’s hallmark events.

    OUR INITIATIVES

Origin Story:  The Illumignossi Project

Maya’s Lamp

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Making Light. Sharing Light.

7 & 9 Year Old Sisters Create Stunning Paper Lamps

Featured Initiatives

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Legacy Lights
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Legacy Lights
Initiatives

What better way to honor our elders than help them explore the meanings of their rich, complex lives through their stories, traditions, memories, hopes, and dreams?

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Village of Light
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Village of Light
Initiatives

A magical community display that’s rich with beauty and meaning.

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Honoring the Light - Alzheimer's & Dementia
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Honoring the Light - Alzheimer's & Dementia
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“Memories may fade, but the inner light remains.”

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Precious Lights (for expectant parents)
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Precious Lights (for expectant parents)
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In our Precious Lights workshops, expectant parents make a beautiful handmade lamp for their newborn nursery.

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Initiatives
Cancer & Serious Illness
Initiatives
Cancer & Serious Illness
Initiatives

“A wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

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Palliative Care
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Palliative Care
Initiatives

This initiative is similar in many aspects to that of Cancer & Serious Illness, but it’s exclusively for patients who are in palliative care, as well as their caregivers.

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Initiatives

Featured

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StarShine Hospice Brings Light to Pediatric Palliative Care Patients
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StarShine Hospice Brings Light to Pediatric Palliative Care Patients
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Illuminating Life’s Journey with Legacy Lamps
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Illuminating Life’s Journey with Legacy Lamps
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Meg Newhouse, Ph.D., nationally known pioneer in Third-Age LifeCrafting and “conscious elder hood” praises Legacy Lights.

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Village of Light Illuminates Senior Center
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Village of Light Illuminates Senior Center
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Village of Light pilot funded by Ovation Communities of Milwaukee, WI

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Innovative Legacy Lights Shines at Ovation Communities
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Innovative Legacy Lights Shines at Ovation Communities
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With the generous assistance of the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation, Ovation Communities is proud to be the first senior living community in the country to host Legacy Lights Initiative workshops.

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Legacy Lights Workshop at Lynden Sculpture Garden
Workshop, Blog
Legacy Lights Workshop at Lynden Sculpture Garden
Workshop, Blog

In February we conducted an experiential Focus Group of Elders to begin our Legacy Lights Initiative. Nine elders participated, 4 were older than 90 years; 2 participants were in their 80’s, and 3 were in their 70’s.

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Bequeathing Thanksgiving
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Bequeathing Thanksgiving
Blog

This Thanksgiving we’ll tell our four adult children about their great-nth-uncle, Edward Winslow, who at age 26 penned the only contemporaneous account of the first Thanksgiving in a December, 1621 letter: “Our harvest gotten in…so that we may rejoice together,”….

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