Orphan Wisdom is a philosophical system invented and promoted by Stephen Jenkinson that believes what modern people "suffer from most is culture failure, amnesia of ancestry and deep family story, phantom or sham rites of passage, no instruction on how to live with each other or with the world around us or with our dead or with our history.""Making Wisdom" on the Orphan Wisdom website. Accessed 28 September 2015.  Before his 2010 founding of the Orphan Wisdom School, Jenkinson directed palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital of Toronto."Man sees gifts in terminal diagnosis," Peak Online. 4 June 2014. Accessed 28 September 2015. Orphan Wisdom's teachings push against "'death phobia' and 'grief illiteracy'""Is This Yom Kippur Prayer Designed to Confront Our 'Death Phobia?'," Haaretz. 17 September 2015. Accessed 28 September 2015. to promote acceptance of death well before death in order to "participate emotionally in their deaths as they participate in other big life events"."Author talks about dying well in Woods Hole forum," Cape Cod Times. 16 August 2015. Accessed 28 September 2015.
Orphan Wisdom is a method of inquiry gathered together and wondered about primarily, but not exclusively, by Stephen Jenkinson . Jenkinson expresses his experience in seeing what modern Western people "suffer from most is culture failure, amnesia of ancestry and deep family story, phantom or sham rites of passage, no instruction on how to live with each other or with the world around us or with our dead or with our history.""Making Wisdom" on the Orphan Wisdom website. Accessed 28 September 2015. Orphan Wisdom wonders about the origins and consequence of this state and contending with building skills to be in the presence of this fact. Before his 2010 founding of the Orphan Wisdom School, Jenkinson directed palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital of Toronto."Man sees gifts in terminal diagnosis," Peak Online. 4 June 2014. Accessed 28 September 2015. Orphan Wisdom's teachings push against "'death phobia' and 'grief illiteracy'""Is This Yom Kippur Prayer Designed to Confront Our 'Death Phobia?'," Haaretz. 17 September 2015. Accessed 28 September 2015. to promote acceptance of death well before death in order to "participate emotionally in their deaths as they participate in other big life events"."Author talks about dying well in Woods Hole forum," Cape Cod Times. 16 August 2015. Accessed 28 September 2015.
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Orphan Wisdom wonders about the origins and consequence of this state and contending with building skills to be in the presence of this fact.