Stephen Jenkinson MTS, MSW is an author, culture activist, ceremonialist and farmer. He teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. With Master’s degrees from Harvard University and the University of Toronto, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families, and is a former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He is the author of several books including Reckoning, A Generation’s Worth, Come of Age, Money & the Soul’s Desires, and Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul. Stephen is the subject of the documentary Griefwalker and Lost Nation Road. Nights of Grief and Mystery world tours, with singer-songwriter Gregory Hoskins, are odes to wonder, love letters for the willingness to know endings.