Spotlighting the liveliest death-related events around the world and online. To submit your event for inclusion, please email the date, time, name, and description with link to dodeathbetter@gmail.com.
September 8-12
Honiton, United Kingdom
Woven Farewell Coffins Workshop
A 5 day immersive course with a small student size, this course is taught by an experienced professional coffin maker. Nestled in the stunning Devon hills, learn willow coffin weaving from award winning Woven Farewell Coffins founder Sophia Campbell-Shaw. This course is perfect for anyone interested in end of life practices or preparation, no weaving experience is necessary. The course cost includes the finished coffin product.
Tuesday, September 9, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Online
Grief and Political Identity
Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare, Facilitated by Victoria Rutledge
Drawing from her own intersectional identity and spiritual evolution, Victoria is thrilled to guide us through an exploration of our bodies and minds as we discuss what roles we have to play in our unfolding future. Prepare to move just a bit, think critically, sow hope, and acknowledge the grief of living in this world while dreaming into the futures we desire!
Victoria Rutledge is a tenured yoga teacher and certified death doula, with experience leading group processing sessions, leading workshops and retreats, and hospice volunteering. Passionate about self inquiry and creating an equitable and just world for all people, she finds purpose in creating spaces to hold the vastness of the human experience.
This is a facilitated drop-in space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities.
Wednesday, September 10, 1:00 pm BST
What Can We Learn from History about Grief, Loss & Bereavement?
Online
In this talk, Molly Conisbee will explore some historical understandings of grief and loss, and how they might be used in contemporary contexts of bereavement counselling. She will draw on research from her recent book No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality and also her work as a bereavement counsellor. Data and archival research on how grief was experienced and articulated in the past have impacted her practice-based work with clients, particularly those who want to explore the impact of grief on their relationship with their own stories and their strategies for facing the future. Molly Conisbee is in the final stages of qualifying to be a bereavement counsellor and is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. She is the author of No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome), published May 2025. This event is part of a new seminar series organised by the Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement, in association with the Good Grief Festival.