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Practitioners question: Host and facilitator
Posted by Bernadetta on Jan. 2, 2017, 2:26 p.m. 2 comments
Hello there and Happy New Year:)
I talked today about death quite a lot with a friend and realised how helpful it was to share the experience and stories.
It dawned me that a friend told me last year about a Death Cafe and that he would be interested if ...
Press: This group offers lively conversation about a deadly serious subject
Posted by Kelli Lyles on Jan. 1, 2017, 8:38 p.m. 1 comment
Lovely piece on our local Death Cafe. Big Thanks to Debbie Cafazzo (writer) and Peter Haley (photographer) for spending time with us, getting to know us, and sharing a beautiful story on who and what we are.
See more at: The News Tribune / www.thenewstribune.com
Link: Firmly on the side of the ordinary mortal – the Natural Death Centre
Posted by Josefine Speyer on Dec. 31, 2016, 3:41 p.m.
This is a brief article I wrote about the Natural Death Centre and the Lifetime Achievement Award it received in September this year.
The article appeared on the blog of the Kicking The Bucket Festival website. Kicking the Bucket is a month long festival held in Oxford in October every ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Cape Town
Posted by MortalMonday on Dec. 29, 2016, 3:52 a.m.
Thirty people attended our first Death Café at The Dining Room in Cape Town – the perfect venue. Mostly strangers to each other, the feedback (gathered afterwards via email) was very encouraging, and provided some good pointers to our next café, the date yet to be confirmed, either the 23rd of January or 6th of February, 2017.
People arrived (early!) and had the opportunity to write a word or slang phrase for death on the wall, or mingle while they waited for others. Already, there was an excitement in the room. Everyone chose a random slip of paper with a number on it – this was the number ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe: Bradford on Avon Marina
Posted by mysticmoon on Dec. 20, 2016, 12:40 p.m.
I have purposefully not published this blog until the Winter Solstice. The Solstice is about the bringing back of the light. I believe death cafes do just that. They bring people together to shed light on the darkness and fear of death. So, this blog is to wish all of you who read it a happy Solstice, and to remind you that even in the depth of winter and in the depth of whatever darkness you may experience in life, the Light is always there, waiting for you.
November is a cosy time to hold a pop-up death café on Mystic Moon. The sun was already sinking as ...
Practitioners question: Qualitative research on the Death Cafe experience: looking for participants!
Posted by Death Cafe - Fremantle on Dec. 19, 2016, 10:48 p.m. 4 comments
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Attention all Death Cafe participants!
Possibly for the first time since its humble beginnings in September, 2011, research on your experiences of participating in the Death Cafe movement has finally arrived!
For those of you haven’t heard of me, I am a Counsellor and Behavioural Scientist living in Western ... |
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Death Cafe
Posted by tucsondeathcafe on Dec. 19, 2016, 7:38 p.m.
Our Halloween Friendly and Fearless Tucson Death Café was spook-tackular! Several attendees came in alternate visage among them, Witch, Pumpkin, Butterfly Angel, and Pagan Priestess (in her own skin) celebrating the eve of the Celtic New Year - Samhain - with us. Many thanks to the Bride of the Dead who appeared bearing a scary good chocolate spider cake! Our most enigmatic guest was Death “herself.” She was cloaked in black with a golden skull mask and was engaged, beguiling, and fittingly mysterious slipping away at Café’s close without ever uttering a word!
Our topics of interest turned to how awkward knowing what “the right” thing to say is ...
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Death Cafe
Posted by tucsondeathcafe on Dec. 19, 2016, 7:13 p.m.
December brought a beautiful close to a big year of Tucson Death Cafes. We shared thoughts on how to steward conversations on death and dying with family and friends, on death with dignity with and without the layer of legislation, and about pet grief – sharing that loss of beloved companion animals can be socially disenfranchised, but equally as difficult as loss of humans. We had a rich “everything else” breakout group and shared that although Death Café’s are not grief support groups, crying is a normal expression and tissues are always available. We talked about poet and musician Leonard Cohen’s recent departure and how it seemed ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Playa Venado-Puerto Varas
Posted by Alfredo Ovalle on Dec. 11, 2016, 6:33 a.m.
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Death Cafe write up: Low Country Death Cafe
Posted by Jan Schreiber on Dec. 9, 2016, 1:53 p.m.
We met at a new venue: The Refuge cafe, and it provided a respite after the busy Thanksgiving holiday. Although it had been several months since we had last gathered, there were 2 new people among the 8 that attended.
I purposely scheduled the date after the presidential election and between the holidays. As a result, it seemed that the guests were more open and vulnerable in their sharing about loss. And, at the close of the meeting, nearly everyone stayed on to share a late meal and continue the conversation!
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Seoul Korea
Posted by http://cafe.naver.com/healingdying on Dec. 8, 2016, 7:02 p.m.
We held Death cafe 3 Dec. 30 people came here and talking about death.
many people deeply talkong and smile healing from Death cafe.
for the last Death cafe of 2016 year . it is very important for us.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Vitoria-Gasteiz
Posted by Vivir con Voz Propia on Dec. 7, 2016, 12:51 a.m.
On the 1st December we had the most wonderful morning in mamia bakery. A beautiful large wooden table filled with warm coffee and cake and 16 wonderful, brave and adventurous people. This was the first ever death cafe in the Basque Region of Spain and we the organisers were slightly worried at the prospect that very possibly the idea of talking about death openly may not be quite as easy as it sounds. But to our wonderful surprise we had a fantastic, inspiring and emotional morning. Topics discussed were as varied from films and books to dreams, what happens after death, personal experiences of death and how this ...
New Blog post: Re: "The fear of Death"
Posted by ReadyAlready on Dec. 6, 2016, 11:13 p.m.
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In reading PaulB's "The fear of Death" (http://deathcafe.com/blog/49/) as well as the many replies I recognized that many are opinionated and feel the need to firmly express their view as fact. It seems people think it is death, fear of death or the question of death & what happens upon death that consumes them to the ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Chattanooga
Posted by taylorhr on Dec. 5, 2016, 2:09 p.m.
On October 18th, Chattanooga's second Death Cafe took place. We didn't do as much publicity, and there were more people there than the first time; this is largely a credit to the local newspaper for doing a huge article on the first event and mentioning the date & location of this event.
Connection, conversation, and tea flowed freely as our facilitator opened up the night with introductions. We split up into 3 groups of and continued discussion right up until time to go.
Most attendees were over 50 and there was a wide religious spread (athiest, Christian, Buddhist, Unitarian Universalist, and more).
There was great interest ...
Death Cafe write up: Parksville Death Cafe
Posted by Ven on Dec. 4, 2016, 7:31 p.m.
My first cup of tea at a Death Cafe has encouraged me to make a note of when the next one will be.
I particularly enjoyed that the organizers sat at the table I was at, and others during the event. Changing table and choosing another spot during break was an excellent idea and way to meet and hear others speak.
In the (age) oldest community in Canada (Parksville/Qualicum) this will be a hit for sure! The youngest in attendance today was 17 and the oldest looked like death warmed over. :)
See you again! and Thank you for presenting this concept to the mid-island community.