Death Cafe profile for Jo O'Callaghan
Location: Australia
About Jo O'Callaghan:
I’m someone who holds space for the big, tender questions without rushing for answers. I’ve spent time with grief, with death, and with the quiet changes we don’t always know how to name.
I come with presence more than expertise, and a belief that simply being together honestly, gently can be enough. There’s a lightness I try to bring too, not to make things smaller, but to offer room to breathe
What brings you to Death Cafe?
Because this feels like a rare kind of space. One where we don’t have to fix or perform. Where it’s okay to not know. Where we can talk about what matters, or sit in silence if that feels truer.
I come to Death Café as a human among humans. To share the kind of conversation that isn’t always easy but is often deeply needed.
What would you like your legacy to be?
That I was able to sit with people in their truth. That I didn’t need to fix, advise, or guide just to be there. That maybe, in some small way, I helped make it feel a little more possible to talk about the things we usually keep quiet
Thoughts for sharing:
“Healing is not about returning to who we were. It’s about remembering who we are.” Frank Ostaseski
“Welcome everything. Push away nothing.”
I’ve found that being close to death often strips away what doesn’t matter. It invites us into honesty, into tenderness, into life. There’s a kind of beauty that lives there not flashy, just true. I think when we speak about death, we’re really practicing how to be present with ourselves, with others, and with the moment as it is.
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With Jo O'Callaghan
March 16, 2024, 9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
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