Feb 9, 2021 | Community Engagement, Death a Love Project, Death conversation, Facilitation, Funeral options
Eaglemont Artists’ Hub is a beautiful space. Perfect for sessions about a rich and sensitive topic, end of life. Well this is what the owner, mover and shaker, Carol Ryan thinks. She’s as convinced as I am that things can go much smoother for a person’s...
May 22, 2018 | Community Engagement, Death a Love Project, Poetry, Ritual, workshops
If you couldn’t make it to the ‘Poetry at End of Life’ workshops earlier this month don’t worry. We’ll be putting them on again as part of the suite of workshops on death and dying that Kinship Ritual offers. Meanwhile some poetry...
Jul 13, 2017 | Community Engagement
Café formats can bring strangers together for facilitated conversations and put them at ease. They can stimulate lively, informal discussion and bring out all sorts of views, and when well done are deliberative in nature. Such cafes have been used extensively in...
Jun 23, 2015 | Community Engagement, Environment, Future cemetery
In my role on the Greater Metropolitan Cemetery Trust community advisory committee, I now hear the term ‘future cemetery’ used quite frequently. Until recently they relied on the tried and true patterns or ideas about what a cemetery is. Right now, there...
