We envision a world where everyone engages intentionally with death and grief.

We cultivate this by embracing a whole-being approach to grief and death that is rooted in accessible education and inclusive care.

Anwynn Collective provides in-person end-of-life doula services and community events in Western North Carolina, including Buncombe and surrounding counties. We also offer online classes centered around inclusive death care, grief, and home funeral education.

Meet the Founders

Summer Goon

My path here has been shaped by plants and goodbyes. I've been steeped in plant medicine for over a decade, with formal herbal study beginning at the Self-Heal School of Herbal Studies in San Diego in 2016. Not long after, in 2017, my Mom, my Dad, and my beloved father-in-law all died within ten weeks of each other. That grief cracked me open in ways I'm still tending to, and it's a big part of what brought me, eventually, to this work.

I hold End-of-Life Doula and After Death Care Educator proficiency badges through the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, and am a graduate of the End of Life Doula Specialist Program through the International Doula Life Movement. I also serve as a volunteer with the Trauma Intervention Program, offering emotional first aid and practical support to survivors in the immediate aftermath of tragic events. I see this as a path of lifelong learning, continually listening, growing, and finding new ways to serve.

Clare Duplace

Clare’s path of service has been an unfolding journey since being with her mama during her end of life season, in 2017. Since then she has been cultivating, training, experiencing, and supporting others in the realms of death, grief, and after death care. Weaving creative grief practices, herbal medicine, flower essences, mindfulness, meditation, writing, poetry, somatics, yoga, ritual and ceremony with grief education, grief companioning, and end of life support, Clare is ultimately rooted in the remembering of the old ways people would gather in community during all thresholds of life and in death.

Megan Anderson-Kelly

I was lying on the creaky wooden floor of an old Swedish farmstead when the Spirit came to me who shared that there is so much more we could be doing to make a better experience for those dying and their caregivers. When I looked back at my previous interactions with death, I could see how this was always at the heart of my path.

Drawing on my experience in death care, home funeral education, herbalism, and shamanic practices, I customize supportive plans for each person to feel fully held and seen in their experience. I am here to honor the rites of passage within life and death with respect and reverence, and an understanding that each person navigates these thresholds in their own way.