our founder

Angela Lutzenberger

Angela is a board certified Interfaith Chaplain (MDiv ‘08, Naropa University; BCC, Association of Professional Chaplains; MSW (in progress), University of Southern Maine) specializing in end of life support and guidance. She started volunteering for Hospice in High School and starting in 2011, worked for 12 years as a Hospice chaplain throughout Western and Southern Maine. Before moving to Maine, she worked with Veteran populations at the Puget Sound VA Hospital in Seattle in the Outpatient PTSD, Women’s trauma and Addictions Treatment clinics. She also supported patients and families in inpatient psychiatry and the ICU. In her 2 years there she facilitated weekly grief, spirituality and women’s support groups.

Angela has learned from, walked with and counseled countless individuals and families along their unique paths of being with dying and death. In addition to the immeasurable learning of working full-time in hospice for 12 years, Angela acquired skill in the art of home funeral guidance from Jerrigrace Lyons, completed Deathwalker training with Zenith Virago and from 2017 to 2019, was enrolled in mortuary school. As a practicing Buddhist since the mid 90s, she has been a committed student within a tradition where the inner work of taking death to heart and outer actions that include caring for one’s own dead directly, with the support of community, are understood as essential elements of our sacred life and world.

Angela is grounded and inspired in her commitment to support individuals, families and communities in the cultivation of deeper awareness regarding the transformative power of taking death to heart. In creating Good Ground Great Beyond she aspires to serve the expansion of meaningful disposition options here in Maine as well as provide a space and intention that assists us in remembering death and dying as natural and profound elements of how and who we are.