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care giver, ulla, mentzel Ulla Mentzel, M.A.

I am a performance artist and an inspirational speaker. My subject is the luminous side of death and dying. My audience is anyone ready to see death and dying in a different light.

It feels like the right time to look at this inevitable event with fresh eyes. To explore new ways of experiencing our own dying and that of our loved ones.

For many years I worked as a private caregiver for both home health and hospice. I am also a trained hospice volunteer and a lay chaplain. When I "accidentally" was present the day one of my clients died, I knew I had found my calling. If you want more details about my personal connection to the dying click here.

Lucky me! I have lived a life filled with a wide range of experiences, both personal and professional. It has been very rich in contrasts: from high-tech entrepreneur to poet, from spiritual book writer to teacher of various arts, from home and office organizer to hospice caregiver, and lots more in between.

I was born in Angola, Africa, in 1955 and spent my first 6 years on a coffee and tobacco plantation in the middle of the African nowhere. After that I was raised in Germany by German parents and was a high school exchange student for a year in Iowa.

I studied English literature and American history at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and received an MA in American Literature from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.


I am available as an inspirational speaker
about all aspects of death
including the luminous side of dying
for both US and international events.
Click here to find out more about my talks
and click here to contact me.


ulla mentzel In Germany, I lived in Berlin for 10 years before the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. A year later I moved to the island of Maui in Hawaii, interestingly when Berlin was not an island anymore... I then spent 12 years raising my kids in the Bay Area.

Now I love to go for long walks on the ocean or along a creek, dance my socks off, create mandalas, join a drumming circle and sing chants and folk songs.

I feel passionate about all things dying, and I LOVE to write. Can you tell?

Currently I am in the process of moving to Santa Cruz, California. The ocean is calling me...

These are ways to find out more about me:

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  • Check out my Wordpress Blog: A Bigger Picture in Times of Changes

  • Visit my Art Pages: Images of Light by Ulla Mentzel

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    Yes we designed a life
    To birth a knowing
    Called for in times of need
    And we created me
    The human vessel to live here
    On earth and as a fellow being
    Right in the midst of all

    I lived the life that we foresaw for me
    And I became the woman
    We wanted me to be
    With every grace and scar in place
    Through which the knowing
    Has been birthed and shaped
    Into a perfect jewel
    So that the seeing in the light
    Turned into knowing here on earth

    - Ulla Mentzel -



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    Beautifully done website--beautiful pictures, great poetry and respectful blending of the religious cultures. Beautiful job!

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    for caring for our mother this month. Mother and the family all appreciated your warmth and compassionate care. Please feel free to use me as a reference ...

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    Words fail me. Thank you so much for your compassionate care of my Mom. Thank you for staying with me at the end - you were my rock.

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    We shall never forget your loving care of our mother G. and your support for her husband B. and our family. Thank you especially for encouraging B. to ...

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    Ulla is a joyful, compassionate teacher, who has the ability to inspire one's confidence, and impart knowledge and wisdom that can be life changing.  Priceless!...

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    Ulla's creativity knows no bounds....in her art, in her friendships, in her writing and in her ability to hold such an inspiring and loving space for anyone ...

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    I met Ulla two years ago when she walked into my office at Ashland Hospice and said with absolute clarity she was here to be a hospice volunteer. She ...

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    Ulla's ground breaking work with the living and dying is deep and inspirational. I've known Ulla for almost 10 years as a dear friend and colleague.

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