Sep 24, 2019 | Death a Love Project, Memorial, Remembering, Ritual
I recently published ‘Death, a love project, a guide to exploring the life in death and finding the way together.’ Feels like a good time to re-publish the post that started it all! I published this post back in April 2016 and the idea of ‘love...
Aug 1, 2019 | Death a Love Project, Facilitation, Remembering, Services
‘A life affirming book about death’ says a reader of my book ‘Death, a Love Project’ on Twitter. After spending a couple of years writing it I’m appreciating the feedback readers are sending through and posting on social media. Extraordinary crazy...
Feb 28, 2019 | Celebrant, Death a Love Project, Facilitation, Ritual, Services
Death by suicide is on my mind at the time of the Pell verdict, knowing that the trauma of abuse has led to agonising secrecy, substance abuse and if not suicide per se, certainly most traumatic death, with irretrievable loss left behind. I’m thinking of the two...
Feb 8, 2019 | Memorial, Poetry, Remembering, Ritual
I took away three lessons for a great ceremony on Monday evening this week. Hundreds of people headed to the Exhibition Buildings after work. Ten years on the Victorian Government was holding a ceremony to honour the victims and survivors of the 2009 bushfires. Yes,...
Feb 1, 2019 | Death cafe, Death conversation, Poetry, workshops
These are some workshops and Melbourne Death Cafes for the first part of 2019. Seasonal Melbourne Death Cafe dates for 2019 are: Autumn Equinox Death Cafe 21 March – 6.30-8pm Winter Solstice Death Cafe 26 June – 6.00-7.30pm Death Cafe is by donation to...
