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The Visible Death Worker
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7 contributions to The Visible Death Worker
28d •
Starting a network of local deathworkers - experiences, tips?
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
2 likes • 19d
Thanks all for your comments! Latest news: the regional palliative care association plans to set up a website to educate and orient people around death and end of life, so they are going to set up a new website with different "entry doors" such as for professionals, for close ones, for people dying, for the general public etc. The idea is to have a kind of directory of all the possibilities available locally. They got money from the local authorities for that! And, the same association also offered to raise some money from the local authorities to support organising regular Death Cafes and cover costs, so I am working on the project and will be co-facilitating Death Cafes from the coming autumn!
Jun 19 •
Sondering festival - UK
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/
1 like • Jun 23
Same here in Switzerland.. so inspiring!
Jun 3 •
Sharing a song!
Do you know the Bengsons? An amazing soulful couple that created a grief musical called My Joy is Heavy.. Unfortunately unable to attend it as it took place in the US, but feeling so profoundly moved and joyful when listening to the theme song, I am sharing it with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhziV_b1lc It captured something that resonates deep for me, that when we do give space to our grief, we open up to the whole of our aliveness, and we don't need to choose either one of them, they can and need to coexist in our open broken hearts...
0 likes • Jun 3
@Amy Firth oh wow, such a storyteller, i went into a deep journey with this song!
Jun 2 •
Celebrant for all kinds of life transitions - how to choose what to talk about?
I am a celebrant, offering bespoke ceremonies and rituals for small and big life transitions, from birth to death. That means that I am part of the death worker community but not only! I also cocreate rituals and ceremonies for other types of transitions. I am still at the beginning of my visibility process and I find it tricky to know where to start and what to address first in terms of all the potential life transitions that i ritualise. At the moment I feel very passionate about all things death and feel so supported to be part of this group with all the actions ideas shared, so it's very alive. Yet I feel unsure to start with this topic when my general offers and testimonials are not yet of the instagram page for example.. Another example, regarding the invitation to post our positioning statement, I feel stuck between trying to have a general one, or several more specific ones. Any advice? i'd be curious about your positioning statement(s) if you are in a similar situation? I quickly get overwhelmed by the many possibilities and then freeze and end up not taking action.. Anyone is in a similar field (or not) and would have some tips to share on how to get moving? @Amy Firth
Apr 22 •
🌻 Introduce Yourself...
It's so wonderful to see you all start to arrive - I feel like the excited/nervous party host who's spent way too long decorating and tidying... now it's time to exhale and receive the joy of you each arriving... :) Feel free to share a quick intro in the comments below... perhaps: where you're based, what you do & one main struggle you have with promoting your work/services... GO! x
5 likes • Apr 27
Hey! So glad to be here. ❤️🔥🕸️🙏 I am based in Switzerland and work as a freelancer at La Lisière. La lisière is the space between 2 ecosystems, like forest and field for example. It's a very fertile place, that combines species from both ecosystems and its own specific ones. Just like the space between 2 stages of life, transitions are fertiles spaces! My work as a celebrant is to create bespoke rituals and ceremonies to mark these moments, small and big transitions, based on an intention that emerges by listening to the body. I have started 1,5 years ago and so far it's been by word of mouth. I thought that celebrating a funeral would come after many years in this work but i was invited to at the end of last year and it's been a revelation and an honour to be present at this time. I have also accompanied a peace and reconciliation ritual for a family who was in conflict with the person who died and were not invited at the official funeral. I would love to develop my offers and the challenge now is to find partnerships. I wrote to funeral salons and to palliative care places. And would love to share some of my experiences on social media or a blog and cant seem to find the courage and tone to do it.
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@johanna-risse-8264
I am a celebrant, offering bespoke ceremonies and rituals for small and big life transitions, from birth to death. Based in Fribourg, Switzerland
Active 1d ago
Joined Apr 22, 2026
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