Posted by mknight
Hosted by Dr Michele Knight
Date: | Sept. 20, 2014 |
Start time: | 2:30 p.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time) |
End time: | 4:30 p.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time) |
Address: |
Lazy Bones Lounge Upstairs, 294 Marrickville Road (cnr Illawarra Road) Marrickville New South Wales 2204 Australia |
Suggested gold coin entry donation in support of local charity. |
This Death Cafe has taken place
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About this Death Cafe
Death, that final process of transition which we must all engage with is an event in our lives frequently feared and often misunderstood. A Death Café provides an opportunity for death to ‘come out of the closet’, to stand up and be counted, and to be psychologically, emotionally and spiritually deconstructed. How does death teach us to live? How does death help us understand ourselves and our relationship to the ecological universe? How can we allow death to hold us gently in its hands without fear and apprehension? Good questions, now let’s talk about that!
About Dr Michele Knight
Dr MICHELE KNIGHT (Grad. Cert. Theology, BHSc Aboriginal Health & Community Development, MASc Aboriginal Health & Community Development, PhD Social Work) is a Social Scientist.
Her interest and research in the end-of-life has its origin in the lived experiences of her own life, which includes her bereavement, the returning deceased and the communal and attitudinal response to those experiences.
Her prevailing philosophy is that the subjective experiences and understandings of the meaning of death, and the dead, evidence a changing and shifting theoretical and intellectual discourse which is revisioning how individuals conceptualise what they are as human beings, why they exist as spiritual beings in a physical body and why the dead, by their cross-cultural presence offer humanity an invitation to live more consciously.
She has extensive involvement in community development, support and advocacy in both a professional and voluntary capacity. Since 2006 that involvement has encompassed the for-profit and the not-for-profit sector in the areas of Bereavement and Grief, Hospital Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care, and Academic Lecturing/Tutoring.
She has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the needs of the bereaved, of the unifying elements of interfaith and intercultural spirituality and of the intersubjective relationship between the material and the spiritual universe.
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Please also see: http://www.waysofbeing.com.au/