Gentle reminder we will hold our first free online gathering this Friday 8th June - you can view the link & time zone details in the CALENDAR tab on Skool. Bring your questions / ideas / reflections - will be so nice to be together. ☕️

🐦‍⬛ Hi loves - cos I'm feeling so loved up by y'all gathering here together from ALL OVER THE WORLD - I'm honouring my Welcome Promise of gifting the VISIBILITY FOUNDATIONS course to anyone who arrives here with us by the end of May. So if you have circles or networks of deathy/griefy folk who you know belong here with us - shoot them a text or DM and let them know that free goodies galore await them... visibledeathworker.com is the link that should bring them straight here. 🐦‍⬛ And gosh, nearly 150 of us here now and we just getting started... I have ideas galore but as ever if there's specific things/troubles/issues/questions you hungry to explore - let me know! Comment here or send me a private message or email me or carrier pigeon or telepathic vibes - I'm here for it all. x

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...

If you work in death care - as a funeral celebrant, death doula, funeral director, interfaith minister or end of life carer - and you want to build your presence so the families who need you can actually find you, you're in exactly the right place. The community is free to join. With free & paid classes added all the time. And this is very much a living, growing thing - built for a global community of death workers doing things differently. Start by watching the welcome video here. Then have a look around, introduce yourself in the community feed, and let me know what you most want to learn... Welcome to The Visible Death Worker 👋 Really glad you're here. 🖤

I'm so glad that you talked about ethics. I've strong views on this! I don't feel that vulnerable people are in a position to give consent for use of their images or stories on social media. I don't think they should be put on the spot by asking consent. They might like us and not want to say no. They might just be so tired and beat that they don't have it in them to say no. I think a few FDs are asking for consent but I don't think they should be doing that. They should just not use the content. I sometimes witness some amazing things in my work and there are photos. Same for all of us. But when I have a desire to share it I think 'who is it serving?' and if the answer is me,.well there you go, don't share it. What we do is we take photos for families and give them the photos and tell them that they're for them and we won't be using them. If they're not a distressed family and I see them sharing them on socials or in a Google review I'll wait a while and then ask. Or sometimes I'll ask after a year or two. You are a very good example of a fantastic social media presence without needing to share photos of families and funerals.