Beauty in Burnout is a project funded in full by the generous contributions of the Pearl Collective. This humanitarian organization develops and tests practical models based on life-supporting systems presented across the full spectrum of Earth’s recorded history, geographies, cultures, and philosophies—the correlation and aggregation of which only very recent technology makes possible.

The Pearl Collective has funded a project to collect and correlate the practical insight of end of life spiritual and clinical leaders and across all major religious traditions, grief counselors and researchers, as well as that of clinical leaders who specialize in caring for those at end of life. The goal is to better equip family members, hospice providers, and clinicians to support themselves and their loved ones with immediate, practical resilience and stabilization skills in times of loss.

In this way, the Collective could better respond to the increasing need for non-denominational pastoral support for those who are facing end of life matters for themselves or others but who report they no longer have a religious affiliation they can rely on in times of difficulty.

Death is a deeply personal and internal inevitability for all and has no religious preference. But thanks to many wise people over the ages, we humans DO have clear information on how we can actively and practically approach the inevitable end in a way that enriches the life experience. While death has no religion, all humans share very similar needs when facing it.

To no one’s surprise, it was clear in this project that the practical skills training for compassionate end of life care and facing death peacefully are the same time-tested skills that support us best when we encounter the many little “deaths” of our lives.

Beauty in Burnout is the adaptation of a uniquely universal and human trail guide for individuals dealing with dying, now offered to be of help to the living. As with the hospice project, the app is designed to test a working theoretical model that combines widely accepted mental and emotional skills training alongside and clinically informed, interfaith pastoral care to encourage, comfort, and offer helpful internal approaches that have served humans well in the past. Project participants not only are working help themselves, they are helping others by ensuring the training is as practical and helpful as possible.

The production and content teams owe a great debt of gratitude to the participants of the project for helping us to help more people emerge stronger from burnout.