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How We Got Started

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Garrick C Colwell

Kinsloe Kelley Colwell

Kinsloe Kelley Colwell

Advance Care Planning, End of Life 

and Grief Educator

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Kinsloe Kelley Colwell

Kinsloe Kelley Colwell

Kinsloe Kelley Colwell

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

July 26, 1956 to February 12, 2019

 

It was April of 2017 when Garrick and the late Kinsloe Kelley Colwell, LMFT, invited over 20 Austin area healthcare professionals to meet and discuss ways in which they could 

assist the Central Texas community in becoming aware of the importance 

of completing their advance care directives. 


Over the next few months, the group met and decided to offer educational programs and resources through a non-profit organization they would call Kitchen Table Conversations. 

They felt the name of the organization would encourage people to have the end of life conversations in the comfort of their homes instead of  during 

a medical crisis in the ICU. 


July 1, 2017, this web site was launched. The first workshop was offered the following month. 

In October, AARP of Central Texas began sponsoring The 3 Ds of Advance Care Planning: 

How to Decide, Discuss, and Document Your End of Life Wishes workshops. 

In 2020 AARP will sponsor four such webinars that will reach 

thousands of Central Texans.


These workshops are facilitated by Garrick Colwell, President, and CEO of Kitchen Table Conversations.  Garrick has been a Hospice Volunteer since 1987, serving  as an on-call 

hospital and hospice chaplain. He is a Respecting Choices® Person-Centered Care 

First Steps® Advance Care Planning Certified Instructor and Facilitator. 


As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, he co-created with Hospice Austin Conversations 

On Grief, a monthly online grief support program. As a volunteer, he 

co-facilitates drop-in and loss of spouse grief support groups.


Garrick has completed over 200 hours of study with a grief expert David Kessler at grief.com. David is the author of five bestselling books on grief. His first book, The Needs of the Dying, 

is a #1 best-selling hospice book praised by Mother Teresa. He co-authored with the 

legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, both On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons. 

David's most recent book Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, was 

published in November 2019.


Recently, Garrick completed 240 hours of training with the author, educator, and grief

counselor Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D., CT, and holds a Death and Grief Studies certificate from 

the internationally recognized Center for Loss and Life Transition, a private 

an organization founded by Dr. Wolfelt that is dedicated to 

furthering our understanding of grief.  


In 2020 Kitchen Table Conversations began offering their Grief Education webinar series. 

Topics, dates, and times can be found on our Home Page; click on Grief Education.


Garrick can be reached at 512-787-3402 or

garrick@KitchenTableConversations.org  



 

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Advance Care Planning  for your company, faith community or 

special interest group,  please call us today at 

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Vision - Mission - Goal

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Vision

Mission

Mission

We envision a community in which the end of life wishes of all people are honored and respected.
 

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Mission

Mission

Mission

 We provide education and resources that empower Central Texans to have end of life conversations with loved ones and health care providers and to legally document 

their wishes ensuring those choices 

are honored and respected. 

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Goal

Mission

Goal

We become an integral part of end of life care conversations within our community. 

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