Welcome to Pollen

The death education hive for families, individuals, & funeral professionals

Your Hive for Death & Funeral Care Consulting

Pollen offers a variety of consulting and death care education services to address the most current issues within the death care industry.

Many of these challenges are not examined through standard educational channels, yet now affect a large percentage of the population.

Pollen is our contribution to the solution.

Meet Our Founder

Death Care Consulting

For Individuals, Families, or Death Care Professionals

Michaelene provides consulting in two core groups: Individuals & Families, and Death Care Professionals.

She guides families in best practices for discussing grief with children and other loved ones.

She also offers consultations to funeral care professionals on a variety of industry and region-specific topics.

Death Care Education

Teaching Services & Presentations

Explore our selection of presentations-upon-request, on-demand online classes, and tutoring services in all things death & funeral care.

Assorted Services

Celebrancy, Death Registry, & Children's Grief Literature

For the death care topics that don’t fit anywhere else, our assorted death & funeral care services offer death registry completion for funeral homes, grief books for children, and more.

The Heart Behind Pollen

Michaelene Dowers

Michaelene Dowers brings her experiences as a mother, plus considerable talents, education, and certifications to Pollen’s curated bereavement literature for children and to Quietus Bee’s continuing education courses in funeral service alongside her specialized consulting.

With nearly a decade of experience as a funeral director in numerous states across the country, Michaelene is experienced at navigating the many variations in funeral service law and protocol found throughout the United States.