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...
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,...
Nov 27, 2018 | Death cafe, Poetry, Ritual
Art and rituals deepen our understanding and give us a way of being in touch, communicating … even if it’s quite a difficult topic like death. I thought long and hard before finding the right name for my business and chose Kinship Ritual to speak of the...
Jul 18, 2018 | Death cafe, Death conversation, Facilitation, Ritual, workshops
I’ve run over 20 Death Cafes in Melbourne – that’s one ‘death conversation’ for each season for several years plus many open conversations and workshops about death, grief and loss for professionals like social workers, mental health, aged care...
