Building death literacy, together.
Practical education and honest conversations about dying, death, grief, and caregiving for communities, organizations, and groups across Middle Tennessee.
Workshops • Speaking • Community Conversations
Death education belongs in community.
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Grief in Community
Gathering in a local park for a facilitated grief circle, creating space for grief to be witnessed and shared rather than carried entirely in private.
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Death Church
Gathering in community for guided meditation and conversation about mortality, making space to consider death not as an abstraction, but as part of how we live.
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Sound & Grief
Exploring sound and the singing bowl as practices for creating space for grief, reflection, and remembrance.
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Behind the Scenes of Deathcare
Touring a local funeral home and crematory to make what happens after death more visible, understandable, and less mysterious.
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Death Altars
Creating death altars alongside a local potter, exploring how making, ritual, and remembrance can connect us with mortality and the people we have lost.
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Death Doula 101
Introducing the community to the role of the death doula, what nonmedical end-of-life support can look like, and how doulas work alongside families and existing care teams.
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Pine & Clay
Exploring herbalism as ancestral deathwork and the ways plants, traditional knowledge, and relationship with the natural world have long shaped how we care for the dying and the dead.
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Shrouding the Dead
Learning the practice of shrouding with a local burial shroud weaver and exploring what it means to care for and prepare our dead by hand.
Ways to Partner with Farewell + Learn in Community
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Wellness practicioners may want to collaborate on integrating grief tending, or death education into community events. Past partnerships have included: Yoga for Grief and Coming Home to Yourself: Somatic Practices for Deathworkers.
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Skilled artisans may offer workshops or skill-shares where our communities overlap. Examples include: burial shroud weaving and shrouding demonstration, making clay death altars with local potter, and herbal ancestors for death and grief care.
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Faith communities have offered death doula education to their congregations, as well as opportunities to engage in mortality work as a community. Past experiences included: Death Doula skills for church care teams, Death Church: an Evening of Death Meditation and Grief Circle for community.
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Community care professionals can offer support opportunities in their unique niche. Previous example: sound bowl healing for grief, psychedelics at end-of-life workshop, and series of intensive writing for grievers.
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Adjacent community service providers may provide a welcoming space to answer questions for the community. In the past we’ve explored natural burial conservation center, local funeral home and crematorium, and contrast therapy studio.
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Libraries, schools, universities, and educational spaces can offer places for their communities to deepen their understanding of serving the dying and tending the grief. For example: Montessori schools may offer Keeping Death at Home workshop, local libraries may host Advance Care Planning for Seniors, or universities may have death doulas guest speak about our work.
Death literacy belongs to all of us.
For most of human history, knowledge about dying, caring for the dead, and tending to grief lived within families and communities. Community education helps return that knowledge to the places where we live, work, gather, and care for one another.
The more we know together, the less any one person has to figure out alone.
Not ready to learn in community? Start here.
You don’t have to host or attend a community event to begin learning about death and dying. Explore the Farewell Library for free articles, resources, books, and conversations about deathwork, caregiving, grief, and mortality.