Hey! I took part in my first Death Café last Saturday and I loved it. One of the things that I noticed was that, besides the 2 facilitators who were palliative care nurses, I, a celebrant, was there, and there was also someone making beautiful wooden sculptures for graves and a couple of singers for ceremonies.. This observation seemed to show that we need a place to meet as a network and become more visible together! So, as I have some capacity and experience for that, I am taking the first steps to get it started with the 2 palliative care nurses. We imagined that having a common website that gathers all actors in the ecosystem of death in our city would be a good start, and then meeting up and hopefully having collaborations etc. This would include the traditional actors such as funeral directors, palliative care, priests, but also death doulas, celebrants etc. Do any of you have such a webpage and/or network in your area? Would you share your experience and the website if there is such a thing? Regarding the name, we were joking with "The Death Portal" but it might be a bit too much for a start.. :) Any experience or tip is welcome! Thanks! Johanna

One of the easiest visibility strategies I teach death workers is this: stop creating content in isolation. Start creating content around the days and topics people are already searching for, talking about, and sharing. There's lot of ways to do this - but today, we're focusing on what marketing people call "trendjacking" (hijacking a trend or global conversation). I just call it: joining the conversation that's already happening. 🐦‍⬛ THE OPPORTUNITY If the whole world is talking about grief, remembrance, palliative care or mortality, that's your invitation. We should be seen and heard in these spaces. It's an open door, we just have to show up. Not because you're chasing an algorithm. Because people are actively looking for what you offer. I've done the legwork below to map out the main global opportunities for you to add to your content/events calendar - plus some low hanging fruit for Australia, NZ, UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA. I know there's more out there. Drop your own suggestions in the comments... But first - some gentle guidance & encouragement: 🐦‍⬛ BEYOND THE FEED Everything doesn't have to live only as a social media reel or website article. These same anchor days work just as well, maybe even better, as a reason to gather people in a room. Pick one day that actually resonates with you, not all of them, just one. Then ask yourself what that could look like as a morning tea, a workshop or an info session in your own community. Dying To Know Day is a good example. Instead of just posting about it, you could host a morning tea with a few local death care workers there to chat. A funeral director, a celebrant, a doula, maybe someone from palliative care. Tea, scones, and a room where people feel safe enough to ask the questions they've been sitting on. This is where your network becomes useful in a very practical way. Reach out to other death workers you know and ask if they'd come along and contribute. Speak to your local library, most have a community room sitting empty most days and a genuine interest in hosting events that bring people in. Community centres, neighbourhood houses and even some cafes are often open to this too if you ask.

Wow! Just reading about this and really want to go. Timing this year isn’t good for me. But sharing as I know the UK people here may be interested. Worth Travelling for too I reckon. Although Aus / Canada may be a bit far! https://www.thesonderingfestival.co.uk/

Hello! There is a strong trend here on the west coast of Canada toward cremation with no viewing of the body, and then no funeral or memorial service after. The sentiment comes from wanting to keep things simple, low cost, and not "burden" the family. I'm a funeral director who does a lot of pre-need arrangements (meaning when people want to pre-arrange/pre-pay their cremation ahead of time) so I have a sweet spot to gently challenge folks who want their families to just "toss their cremated remains in the ocean and get on with life". But because I'm talking to these people as a funeral director, I think it can seem like I'm trying to get them to spend more money. I'm not. I'm truly trying to create the invitation for their family to be more engaged. I would LOVE to hear how folks in this community are challenging this trend - if it is in fact similar in Australia, the UK, the US, and beyond! Thanks :)

I thought this community was mostly about marketing. Turns out I was only half right. Our first Vizzy D Virtual Cuppa Family Meeting last week cracked something open for me. Yes, The Visible Death Worker was born out of the idea that we need to be more visible to the FAMILIES who need us. But watching you show up in that room, I had a proper penny-drop moment: this is just as much about being visible to EACH OTHER. What's forming here is genuinely rare. A real-time, living cross-section of this work, from all the corners of the world where people are tending to death with care and intentionality. The patterns we're each noticing. The questions we're sitting with. The things we're slowly, quietly changing in our communities. There's so much we can unlock in each other, both to deepen our own practice and to evolve the conversations happening out there. So this week is a celebration of the wisdom in this room. This week's prompt: share what you've built. If you have an online offering, a course, a workshop, a digital resource, a practice guide, anything you've made for families or for other practitioners, share it here. Drop the link. Tell us what it is and who it's for. Let's learn from each other. Let's be generous with what we've made. Let's feed the collective compost together. And if you've found something brilliant made by someone else in this space, share that too. Accounts you love, resources that changed how you work, teachers who lit something up in you. 🐦‍⬛ OH, AND: IN OTHER NEWS - I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE THING THAT JUST HAPPENED - A few weeks ago, our Visible Friday #5 was the SHOOT YOUR SHOT prompt which asked us to do the scary thing. Mine was to get on the radar of Dr Sarah Kerr, aka Sacred Death Care, someone whose work I have quietly adored for years. Within MINUTES of putting that out there, one of our Vizzy D's in the USA (Hi @Karla Kerr 🐦‍⬛) popped up and said: "Oh, I just met her at a conference. Want me to do an email intro?"