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...
Jul 31, 2020 | Children, Death a Love Project, Grief and bereavement, Memorial, Remembering, Ritual
Oh I wish I had a tattoo! Even though my parents died before I even thought of having one, they would have been scandalised! If I had got one it’d have been by ex de Medici. She practised in Canberra. Now a celebrated artist with work in major collections, her work...
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...
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...
