Death Cafe profile for Philip Sheridan
Location: United Kingdom
About Philip Sheridan:
Facilitator, Poet & Writer
Two decades therapeutic experience working with children and families around child sexual exploitation, separation and loss.
Lived experience of acquired disability, near death, and carer role.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
Regular host and facilitator of Death Cafes at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
The simple format of the Death Cafe facilitates one of the most affective ways of offering a place for people to gather and talk about death and dying.
I leave each Death Cafe feeling in awe of the people who attend. Their willingness to talk with candour and to listen with compassion.
I look forward to hosting and facilitating more Death Cafes on the journey.
What would you like your legacy to be?
To borrow from Raymond Chandler's poem - Late Fragment
“... to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
Thoughts for sharing:
Remembering life
Remembering death
Seeking everydayness
In an extraordinary world.
Contact Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan's posts on the Death Cafe website
With The Patient | Carer Community and Humanities & Spiritual Health Society at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
May 30, 2018, 12.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (UK)
Free to everyone
5th Death Cafe
Hosted by the Patient | Carer Community (PCC) with the Humanities & Spiritual Health society (HuSH) at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
Much of the education of ...
With The Patient | Carer Community and Humanities & Spiritual Health Society at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
March 14, 2018, 12.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (UK)
Free to everyone
Our 4th Death Cafe and the first for 2018.
Hosted by the Patient | Carer Community (PCC) with the Humanities & Spiritual Health society (HuSH) at the School of Medicine, University of ...
With The Patient | Carer Community and Humanities & Spiritual Health Society at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
Oct. 25, 2017, 11.30 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. (UK)
Free to everyone
Our 3rd Death Cafe after two successful Death Cafes held in 2016 and 2015.
Hosted by the Patient | Carer Community (PCC) with the Humanities & Spiritual Health society (HuSH) at the ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Leeds
Posted by Philip Sheridan on May 4, 2017, 7:02 a.m. 1 comment
“Thank you.”
As people left, many expressed thanks and appreciation to the organisers of this Death Café. Those attending came from many different walks of life and each individual held a different perspective on death. Some came with questions, others with recent experience of death; all with a desire to talk and listen to others in an open and welcoming place.
Those attending the session were a mix of colleagues, friends and strangers to each other yet the session was marked by honesty and intimacy.
Conversation, washed down with tea and cake, was accompanied by laughter, sadness, enthusiasm and curiosity. The topics discussed encompassed the physical, spiritual, social ...
With The Patient | Carer Community and Humanities & Spiritual Health Society at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
April 26, 2017, 12.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (UK)
Free to everyone
Much of the education of healthcare professionals involves learning how to help, heal and manage people with their health and wellbeing. Yet, when we start to explore how to talk ...
With The Patient | Carer Community at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds.
Oct. 31, 2016, 11.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. (UK)
Free to everyone
As you can imagine, much of the education of healthcare professionals involves learning how to help, heal and manage people with their health and wellbeing. Yet when we start to ...