Death Cafe profile for Suzanne Michal
Location: United Kingdom
About Suzanne Michal:
I am really excited about running a Death Cafe so that many other people can benefit from this amazing opportunity to talk about death. I really believe from experience that the best way to free ourselves from a fear of dying or the pain of having lost a loved one is to talk about it, in a natural way and listen to other's stories too.
I have been involved with death for 24 years, it has shaped who I am and my work as an Energy Healer.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
The desire to share with others our stories, our beliefs, our fears, our pains, our joys, our journeys around death. This in itself brings a growth in understanding, an emotional evolution.
The desire to meet other people who are interested in the subject.
What would you like your legacy to be?
Peace, fun and love !
Thoughts for sharing:
"We are only limited by the knowledge we have and the questions we ask". Dr Joe Dispenza
Contact Suzanne Michal
Suzanne Michal's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Suzanne Michal
Dec. 3, 2018, 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to loss, dying and death. This ultimately opens the ...
With Suzanne Michal
Jan. 23, 2017, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
Dec. 5, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Nov. 1, 2016, 6:50 a.m.
So for some reason that was one of the best death cafe I have ever attended. We had nearly equal men and women and we were read three wonderful tales of death by 3 men! An absolute treat.
We all shared our own stories, some pretty moving and humbling... of forgiveness long after one's mother's passing, of losing 18 loved ones in just over one year, of keeping in touch with the children of one's best friend who passed away and left a big hole in a man's life...
We were 9 around that long table, all taken in by each other's sharing ...
With Suzanne Michal
Oct. 31, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
Sept. 26, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
June 20, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
May 23, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
April 19, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
March 21, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Feb. 24, 2016, 11:58 a.m.
We were only four around one table with one candle! By the time our introduction were completed we were already engaged in heart to heart exchanges. We were lucky to have a palliative doctore who shared many beatufiul tales of last days to patients in the hospice where she works. I was touched by the young couple who finished our quatuor dedicated to promote healthy attitudes to death and dying.
Another special death cafe evening!
With Suzanne Michal
Feb. 22, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Dec. 2, 2015, 10:48 a.m.
I cannot quite explain what made this death cafe, even more moving and warming than the others but it was. Maybe sitting close to one another as we were quite a good grouop around two tables, each with our own discussion going on.
It is always moving to hear people's stories but this time we also had the chance of being inspired by a retired GP who urged us to keep the body of someone who has just died within the home, with the family for at least 24 hours if at all possible like traditional cultures in order to help with the bereavement process, the family ...
With Suzanne Michal
Nov. 23, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing and ...
With Suzanne Michal
Oct. 13, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing magic ...
With Suzanne Michal
Sept. 14, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
My aim is to hold a space where we can talk and listen freely,openly and with vulnerability about our relationship to death. This opens the door for healing magic ...
With Suzanne Michal
Aug. 1, 2015, 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. (UK)
Free event, a suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
This SW London Death Cafe on 1st August is going to be filmed.
Gemma Atkinson from Fat Rat Films is going to integrate scenes of a death cafe in her ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on July 7, 2015, 5:55 a.m.
It was very different experience this time for me. Even after two years of running death cafes.
We were deeply moved by two ladies who work for a children's hospice.
A lady shared about working in refugee camps and how they delivered back to familie the ashes of those who had died in the camp. Very emotional and a sharing about different cultural responses to death and bereavement.
As a man left, he told me "how balanced and serene" he now felt...
A powerful melting pot of such unique stories, personalities, point of views, needs...
With Suzanne Michal
July 6, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on June 2, 2015, 5:49 a.m. 1 comment
17 people turned up to what became a lively, sometimes fun (I was sitting next to a man with a great dark sense of humour) and profound exploration around many facets of death and dying.
It took only the first round of introduction, in small groups to hit deep angles such as when the will to die overcomes someone facing traumatic pain after an operation, clearing war sites in Afganistan of dead bodies, is it normal not to have any fear of death, why do we hold onto people who are ready to die of old age, what makes a funeral meaningful, writing to someone on death row ...
With Suzanne Michal
June 1, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
With Suzanne Michal
Dec. 17, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Nov. 19, 2014, 9:22 a.m.
It quickly became apparent that we were all going to be at ease in revealing deeper stuff about ourselves... So, we heard tales of ...
taking LSD in one's youth and how those experiences generating a new definitaion of what reality is for that person (now in their seventies)..
how a lady survived laying for 28 hours with a stroke before someone find her and she is alive to tell the story...
living with mouth cancer...
becoming a massage therapist for end of life patients...
being bereaved from someone who died in awful circustances in an earthquake...
As the evening passed, our aliveness grew... to share such experiences ...
With Suzanne Michal
Nov. 17, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Oct. 21, 2014, 5:24 a.m.
The discussion this month naturally evolved around the weight of treating death as a taboo. Why do we do it and the many different costs for such a cultural attitude.
We wondered if it could be a legacy from the mediaval plague, how death and bereavement make us face our human limitations and emotional limitations...
Some were open in sharing about spiritual and near death experiences whilst others retained a more sceptical and down to eath attitude to death. All those shared views and experiences cohabited perfectly and easily in the most nourishing manner.
As always, despite meeting total strangers, it feels like meeting old friends with whom ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Sept. 24, 2014, 8:53 a.m.
We were eight gathered around a very long table. And it very quickly got pretty deeply emotional and profound. The first strong emotion that came up for me was privileged. That is it: I felt privileged for being giving the opportunity to hear stories that people don't normally share. Really poignat and honest stuff. It is so refreshing, so moving and beautiful. Our common humanity definitely shines in those moments.
Bruce shared: "My first Death Cafe turned out to be a wonderfully surprising experience. It was great to be able to share my thoughts and feelings in a safe, respectful gathering. This topic can be so raw ...
With Suzanne Michal
Oct. 20, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
With Suzanne Michal
Sept. 22, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
It feels that a Death Cafe is such an unique opportunity for us to meet and share around this potentially extremely painfull subject that it requires a certain level of ...
With Suzanne Michal
June 2, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
I want to make it clear that a Death Cafe is not a social event but a Special Event. So, as such I am running the SW London ones as ...
With Suzanne Michal
May 5, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
I want to make it clear that a Death Cafe is not a social event but a Special Event. So, as such I am now going to run the SW ...
With Suzanne Michal
April 7, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Suggested donation of £5 to contribute towards printing postcards to put in local hospices and cemeteries and to support my energy running this monthly event.
I am really looking forward to our April SW London Death Cafe because every one of them has proven to be such a gift in my life and for the ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on March 5, 2014, 7:09 a.m. 1 comment
Well, I now have the absolute proof that it does not matter how many people attend a Death Cafe to make it a super special event.
We were 2 and looking back on it, it is as if it was went to be that way because what we shared in our intimate Death Cafe was so rich, powerful, reflective of our respective experiences of life and death that we are both still integrating our exchange a few days later !
I am so looking forward to the April SW London Death Cafe I can assure you!
" I went to a cafe in Putney to talk about death. I've ...
With Suzanne Michal
March 3, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. (UK)
Free event although a donation is appreciated to support the organisational work
I love hosting my monthly SW London Death Cafe ! It is always such a priviledge to be with people who are open to share their stories.
It is definitlely an ...
With Suzanne Michal
Feb. 3, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. (UK)
Free event although a donation is appreciated to support the organisational work
New Year, New You???
We shall have a look at how you can define further your you new, by writting your own imaginery eulogy.
This should prove quite a strech ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Dec. 6, 2013, 4:19 a.m.
Despite the fact that only about half the people I was expecting came, it was an almighty powerful evening.
Listening to a woman share her story of her mother's passing in March moved me to tears and inspired so much hope in healing relationships, even difficult ones before someone goes for good.
Yet again, the same effect happened which is a classic for a Death Cafe: people's masks and pretence fall aside and a genuine human being starts to shine.
To our surprise in the middle of it, 2 ladies appeared. They were Norwegian and came to London only for the day to meet Jon who ...
With Suzanne Michal
Dec. 2, 2013, 7.00 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. (UK)
Free event although a donation is appreciated to support the organisational work
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As this Death Cafe is going to be near Christmas, I would like us to look at Death from the standpoint of ...
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Nov. 6, 2013, 7:43 a.m.
We had around 20 people attending this wonderful first Death Cafe in Putney. Discussion ranged from why we are interested in talking about death to what is our religious background as this is such a strong framework to our relationship with death. This was followed by a very lively break where some mingled whilst some carried on involved discussions and connections.
We finished with looking at our fears around death. The last comment of the evening being that it would be great to hold the Death Cafe whilst eating some "Death by chocolate" cake. So, yet again humour was present!
Some feedback was:
With Suzanne Michal
Nov. 4, 2013, 6.30 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. (UK)
This Death Cafe is free. Buy yourself a dish and drink with the Toy shop Bar waitress and we shall begin!
I hope to run a Death Cafe that is warm and where participants feel free to be themselves. Knowing myself, I know that I will encourage everyone to go a ...