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About this Death Cafe

We launched the 1st ever Death Cafe in Wellington on 30 March 2014 and only the 2nd ever to be held in New Zealand. We schedule meetings for the last Sunday of the month to exchange conversations about death and life and to ponder, wonder and celebrate the art of living and dying in compassionate community. Come on down and share your stories, your thoughts, anxieties, joys and fears. Enjoy an afternoon conversing and mingling with like-spirited warm-hearted people. Together, we'll take death gently out of the closet and make a friend, not a foe, of this inevitable companion to us all. 

We provide a safe, agenda-free space to dialogue about death and life over tea, cake. 

These conversations will be free from ideology. We will adhere to the Death Cafe principle not to lead participants towards any conclusion about life, death or life after death, apart from their own thoughts. 

We welcome everyone regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, faith, creed, ethnicity, disability or any other humanade condition. Our conversations will be accessible and respectful to all participants. These conversations will be empathic and compassionate to support everyone in expressing themselves within a safe, non-judgemental sacred space.

Here is a place where people can come to experience connection to one another in sharing their fears about death, and their joys about life. It is a celebration to living and dying as a natural cycle of all existence, while building strong fearless communities.  

About Sophia Tara

Sophia is Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Compassionate Communication NZ  She also initiated and founded the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) grassroots movement in NZ's capital city and the Wellington Region. 

She is an experienced Compassionate Communication trainer, and has facilitated workshops over many years on Grief and Mourning, Guilt and Shame, Anger and Depression, to help mitigate the changing landscape of life's trials, tribulations and unexpressed grief. This personal and/or family loss may be due to the death of a beloved family member or friend, a cherished pet, separation, divorce, children leaving home, bullying, loss or change of residence, redundancy, business liquidation or bankruptcy. 

Sophia has facilitated workshops on Self-Compassion, Empathy and Compassion for others, and the larger framework of 'Transforming Planetary Despair' exploring and "Feeling the pain of the world" repressed fear, isolation and despair for our global future. 

She has also facilitated the exploration of grief and despair revealed within the constellation of profound feelings, unmet values and needs, while allowing transient feelings to flow within-without. To "come alive" and reconnect with joy and courage to the beauty, wonder, and inter-connectedness of all Life, with hope for tomorrow. The Elm Dance of Hope reflects this inner unity and grace. 

Sophia believes peace begins within each person and NVC offers tools, enabling us to make a paradigm shift in consciousness, from living in a culture of violence and fear, towards a Culture of Peace, Compassion and Empathy.

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