When someone we care about dies in unusual or sudden circumstances we don’t often get to have the time to process and write the end together. And we might experience that death with harmful stigma attached to it - such as interpreting someone as taking their own life as selfish, assuming that someone who has a heart attack was unhealthy, or feeling blamed if you lose a child.

Facilitated by Ray, a queer death doula, we’ll explore different lenses to look at death. We’ll explore what complex grief is. We’ll think about all the ways that even though the person is no longer alive, our relationship with them continues to exist, and how that can enable us to continue their legacy in a healthy way.

We’ll write the goodbyes we never got to say and imagine what they might have said to us, and together we’ll reframe our relationship to the dead.

To secure your place please complete this form. You’ll be asked a few questions to ensure this is the right space for you and then be sent a zoom link.

Facilitated by Ray, a queer death doula, this space will explore our own relationships to death and dying - and how that can learn to live with that in mind.

Together we’ll unpack our narratives around death and explore how that impacts our daily life. We’ll look at death through new lenses and explore practical, spiritual, emotional and relational implications of accepting the inevitable. We’ll also think about our parting wishes, and how that might reshape the way we speak about and engage with the dead and the dying.

At the end of the session, using a simple co-creation method we’ll also generate a poem that brings together the many different perspectives and experiences that are present within the room.

The event is free, but there will be vegan snacks and refreshments provided for everyone in attendance which we will invite an optional donation for.

To reserve your place and for more details please email ray@and-breathe.org