Dying Matters Week: 5th to 11th May 2025
THE NATURE OF LOSS
TUESDAY MAY 6TH – 2-4PM
A 2 hour taster sesssion with Emma Capper and me, as part of the events organised by Newton Abbot Library for Dying Matters Week. This event is FREE OF CHARGE
We will meet at the library and walk to nearby woods, relax into our bodies and feel nature all around us. We will notice how helpful it is to engage with nature and how supportive it can be when managing loss. There will be time to share.
Bookings are on Eventbrite or turn up on the day.
WALKING WITH LOSS, TOGETHER
WEDNESDAY MAY 7TH – 11AM – 4PM
Emma Capper and I welcome you to another opportunity to honour and manage your loss. This time we are creating a day together, where we will share our experience of loss, tune in with all our senses to the natural world around us and walk amongst the trees and beside the river -the picture on the flyer, really is where we will be! We will explore creatively, breathing in the wisdom of this ancient woodland.
Bring a picnic lunch and a drink. We will provide home made cookies.
You will find the booking form here.
To write to me, for more information, please use the address on the flyer. We would welcome donations.
Funerals: creating your own culture
THURSDAY MAY 8TH 2 -3.30PM
A gentle afternoon with Sarah Bax from Heart & Soul Funerals and myself, to explore how we might honour what we have loved and what has mattered to us in life. We intend this to be life enhancing experience.
Sarah and I will have a conversation to open up possibilities and then we will work in small groups to think about what you would like for yourselves.
Turn up on the day or book your place at Eventbrite This is a free event.
Dying Matters, Totnes
SATURDAY 10TH MAY – 12.30 – 5PM AND 7PM ONWARDS
Sarah Parker of Dying with Grace has put together a beautiful day of events. The afternoon will be at Birdwood House in Totnes. Throughout the events I will be holding a gentle space for grief in case anybody needs to be in a quiet, reflective environment. After the Death Cafe, at 4.30, the Threshold Choir I run, will sing some gentle songs to lead into the closing ritual.
No need to book there is plenty of space. Everything is free of charge.
Bespoke Workshops/Groups/Retreats created for You
I want to provide what you would like. Below are some of the things I can offer. Please Invite me to run events for your group: RETREATS, DAY EVENTS OR COURSES in person (I can travel) or online. You gather the group and provide the venue (if applicable) and pay me as the facilitator. Any profit is yours. I work with many different people including individuals, businesses, organisations, special interest and friendship groups. Here’s what I do:
CREATIVE WRITING – to support you and help you express what is within you, using poetry, haiku, prose, fiction, non-fiction. SUPPORT GROUPS – small, bespoke groups to support and resource you, using creativity and sharing.
NATURE AS GUIDE –creativity as vehicle. Time spent in nature with creative invitations, to open you to the wisdom of the natural world and your part within it.
CURRICULUM FOR GRIEF – a short course, shedding light on the territory and process of grief
SINGING from our souls. Gathering to sing simple, acapella songs in harmony, to soothe our souls and send love and kindness into the world.
RITUALS -for major life events, (including funerals and memorial services) and seasonal
PLANNING YOUR OWN FUNERAL.
SHARING CIRCLES – facilitated groups to deeply listen and share your authentic and heart felt feelings around love and loss, life and death.
SUPERVISION groups for others working in the field of dying or grieving.
Although a lot of my work these days, especially group work, is geared towards those who are dying or grieving, it is not limited to that. I also work with women who are eldering, business people who are wearying and anyone looking for deeper meaning in their lives. Sometimes I work alone and sometimes in collaboration with others I trust who are very skilled in their field.
I’m so sorry my contact page is broken but please do email me here or via my instagram – @livelovegrieve