Death Cafe profile for Doula Stephen
Location: United Kingdom
About Doula Stephen:
A former University lecturer in Psychology, I studied Psychology and Theology graduating with a BA (Hons) and then undertook PhD research into the alleged dangers of hypnosis. After training in Hypnosis and Psychotherapy with The National College of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy (Nelson, Lancs) gaining a Certificate and Diploma with Distinction, in private practice (counselling and hypnotherapy) for some years working with clients presenting a wide range of issues but with particular interests in treating phobias, the application of Autogenic Training for positive life change and working with the bereaved.
Originally ordained with Bedfont Theological Seminary after completing a course in Spiritual Therapy and gaining a Licentiate in Theology (LTh), I am currently an ordained interfaith Minister (Universal Life Church) with an honorary Doctor of Divinity. A member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), The Druid Network, The British Humanist Association, I am currently updating my knowledge and skills as an Independent Celebrant for alternative and Humanist ceremonies, family celebrations and funerals with OBOD in addition to further training as an End of Life Doula with Doulagivers internationalin and Spiritual Counselling with the Esoteric Theological Seminary.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
A lifelong interest in death and dying and a vocation to bring these subjects into the community in an open and positive way.
What would you like your legacy to be?
Few of us are remembered for more than a single generation. If I have been kind to one or helped someone along the way, my life will not have been in vain.
Thoughts for sharing:
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott-Holland
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Contact Doula Stephen
Doula Stephen's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Stephen Weaver
Sept. 4, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
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With Stephen Weaver
Aug. 21, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
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With Stephen Weaver
Aug. 9, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
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With Stephen Weaver
July 31, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
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With Stephen Weaver
July 10, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
Suggested donation £5.00 to support this project, planning, preparation, printing and CAKE! etc.
With Stephen Weaver
July 3, 2018, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (UTC)
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