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...
Sep 8, 2017 | Family led funerals, Funeral options, Ritual, Vigil
This weekend I’ll be presenting at the first Melbourne Festival of Death and Dying. My topic is Rituals of Laying Out and Vigil. I’m an educator and my goal is to help people to learn more about end of life practices they’re unfamiliar with. I wonder...
Sep 28, 2016 | Death conversation, Family led funerals, Funeral options, Green funeral, Uncategorized
The US social landscape is unique in the way it makes room for the vocation and concern of citizenship. I’ve learned this through being a practitioner in deliberative democracy over many years. Today Trump and Clinton strut the last days of their campaign in the...
Jun 28, 2016 | Death conversation, Funeral options, Not-for-profit, Services
A beautiful garden is the perfect place to have five minutes before a meeting. Time to stand by the fish pond. Time to reflect. I was visiting for the first time. I’d been too busy on other trips to Brisbane. Anyway with regular updates in the mail, I’ve always...
Apr 17, 2016 | Death conversation, Facilitation, Funeral options
Later, what is it you and your family would like? We can have a broad conversation that extends beyond what the advance care directive enables, to include your values, roles in your care and funeral options. Each client I see has motivators that draw them toward...
Apr 11, 2016 | Funeral options, Memorial, Remembering
All the sadness in loss. We can only experience it. And yet there’s also a pull to make sense of it. The journey to make loss meaningful can be painfully long. Somehow memorials play a role in this. Then as time passes, there’s something left, something to refer to,...
