Death care content can feel like shouting into the void sometimes - especially in the early days, especially on platforms that don’t always love what we talk about. So let’s make it a little less lonely… Drop your handles below - Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, wherever you’re showing up - and let’s go find each other. Follow, engage, share what moves you. This is how we build something together. 🐦‍⬛ I’ll go first: Insta - https://www.instagram.com/amyfirthministry TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@aussiedeathcarelady Facebook - www.facebook.com/amyfirthmusic The Visible Death Worker: https://www.instagram.com/visibledeathworker https://www.tiktok.com/@visibledeathworker Amy x

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

Hello my darling Vizzy D's - ! We just ticked past 200 people in this little community. And we only started dreaming into all this eleven weeks ago. Eleven weeks. I keep sitting with that number, turning it over. When I started this I thought it was about visibility 'out there'. Being seen in our communities, online, in the industry. And it still is that. But watching this group take shape week by week, I'm noticing something else happening. We're becoming more visible to each other too. There are threads of connection forming here that I don't want to lose or let sit quiet in the comments and scroll past. So this week I want to slow down and ask you something honestly, because I don't want to build this community on guesses. 🐦‍⬛ Visibility Prompt for this week: What would genuinely serve you here? What do you actually want to get out of this group and the people in it? We're all coming at this work from different angles, different stages, different corners of the industry, so I know there's no single answer. But I'm keen to understand how we support each other well as this thing keeps growing... To get the conversation started, here are some shapes this could take. Pick as many as take your fancy, add your own, tell me what's missing... 1) Themed Deep Dives - ticketed online calls where we sit with one specific topic properly, instead of skimming past it in a scroll. Things like the trend toward direct cremation, VAD, business models in death care or the inner work this job demands of us. Sessions get recorded and made available in the classroom as ticketed Masterclass recordings afterwards, so the conversation keeps earning for the people who showed up and did the work. Profits shared amongst presenters. 2) Regular free drop-in calls - maybe every 6 to 8 weeks, no agenda beyond showing up. 3) One-to-one sessions with me - ticketed audit or planning sessions where we look at where you're at and map out what's next for you. 4) More self-paced courses - websites, newsletters, that kind of practical groundwork.

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.

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 :)