The Sacred Death Centre warmly invites you to the first of our community events in honour of National Dying Matters Week 2025 here in the UK.

Join Faye Greening for a Mandala-Making Workshop, where we use art as a gentle and meaningful way to explore and integrate our emotions. Through the process of creating mandalas, we bridge our inner and outer worlds, allowing space for reflection, balance, and healing.

The symmetry of the mandala invites a sense of harmony and balance, while the mindful, repetitive drawing process encourages calmness and presence. This is an opportunity to express your thoughts and feelings creatively, using art as a tool for self-exploration and emotional connection.

No artistic experience is needed—just an open heart and a willingness to engage in this sacred process.

We look forward to sharing this beautiful journey with you.

Join us for a special workshop during National Dying Matters Week and explore how homeopathy can offer gentle, holistic support for grief and end-of-life care.

In this session, we will explore how carefully selected homeopathic remedies can support both the grieving process and end-of-life care, addressing emotional overwhelm, anxiety, exhaustion, and deep sorrow. Whether you are navigating personal loss, supporting a loved one, or working in end-of-life care, this workshop will provide practical insights into how homeopathy can gently restore balance and well-being.

 Join us as we create a space for meaningful conversation, shared experiences, and compassionate healing.

This workshop is being offered by Anna Davies and Justine Little who run the monthly Sacred Death Centre Homeopathy Clinic in Glastonbury.

Sacred Death Centre Presents: A Day of Talks & Workshops for National Dying Matters Week 

Join us for a transformative day of conversation, connection, and learning as we explore death, dying, and grief with The Sacred Death Centre. 

As part of National Dying Matters Week 2025, this special gathering invites our community to come together for a series of workshops, talks, and rituals designed to open meaningful dialogue, share wisdom, and provide support around life’s final transition.

🌿 What to Expect:
✨ Inspiring talks on end-of-life care, grief, and sacred death practices
✨ Interactive workshops exploring holistic approaches to death and dying
✨ Space for open discussion, reflection, and community connection

Whether you are navigating personal loss, supporting a loved one, working in end-of-life care, or simply curious about these essential conversations, this event is for you. Let’s come together to honour, learn, and embrace the sacredness of death.

Speakers on the day…

Community Despacho Ceremony with Hannah Graceful Dawn

Join Hannah Graceful Dawn for a Despacho Ceremony, a sacred Andean ritual of gratitude and intention-setting. This is an opportunity to gather as a community, offering our prayers and intentions for how we wish to shape the culture around death, dying, and remembrance here in Avalon.

“Soul Midwives ~ Finding Peace, Love & the Death Your Heart Desires”
A Workshop with Simon Gardiner – End of Life Counsellor & Companion

Join Simon Gardiner for a powerful and heartfelt workshop exploring the role of the Soul Midwife—a compassionate guide who helps individuals transition from life to death with peace, dignity, and love.

Join Loyre Hopper for a special reading of ‘Dead Gorgeous’, a short story filled with humour, wisdom, and reflections on life and loss. Through storytelling, Loyre brings a lightness to deep conversations about death, grief, and the challenges we face along the way.

In addition to the reading, Loyre will guide us through Breath & Movement exercises designed to support us through difficult times, helping to release tension and restore balance.

Lucy Lord & Melissa Taylor – Offering a heartfelt talk exploring how to be with grief and sorrow, drawing on the profound teachings of Francis Weller.

“Creating a Personal and Fitting Goodbye” – A Talk with a Funeral Celebrant

Join us for a meaningful discussion on how to create a personal and heartfelt farewell for a loved one. We will hear from an experienced funeral celebrant who will share insights on crafting ceremonies that truly honour the life, values, and spirit of the person who has died.

We look forward to sharing this day with you.

Ritual Concert ~ A Journey Through Song, Sound & Ceremony

Join us for a deeply moving Ritual Concert with Heloise Pilkington and Jenny Bliss, an immersive evening of song, sound and ceremony exploring the profound themes of grief, love, and loss.

Through sacred song, ethereal soundscapes, and intentional ritual, we will create a space to honour our grief, celebrate love, and connect with the universal cycles of life and death. 

This unique offering, part of the Sacred Death Centre’s events for National Dying Matters Week 2025, invites you to experience the healing power of music, community and collective remembrance.

All are welcome—whether you are carrying personal grief, seeking connection, or simply drawn to the beauty of this transformative evening.

Let us gather, listen, feel, and honour the sacred journey of loss and love through song and sound.

We look forward to gathering in community and sharing this evening with you.

As we mark the end of National Dying Matters Week 2025 in the UK, we invite you to join us in a special dance that celebrates all of life’s transitions. Through movement and rhythm, we will connect with the flow of grief, love, and transformation, creating space for healing and remembrance.

This dance is a tribute to the sacred journey of life and death, where we move through the waters of our hearts, honoring the beauty of each transition.

This workshop is a time for you to explore the vertical axis of your Body, Mind & Heart. As we become more present and our movement vocabulary expands, we become freer. With music as our Vessel, we will together be taking a guided journey away from the outer world into our inner landscape.

We will begin with 1 fundamental and powerful practice within movement medicine called Awakening the Dancer, and from there we will explore our elemental nature.

We will dance for Self, our one-to-one relationships, community and the great mystery.

Difficult life experiences, like grief and loss can leave a mark on our minds and hearts and also in our bodies. This can lead to numbness and dissociation. In this practice, we will explore moving a different part of our mental identity to different parts of our body, not only does this serve to warm up the body but it creates a shift of identity an expanding identity, which slowly and gently begins to unthaw us and move us from an experience of disembodiment to embodiment. This can allow us the opportunity to befriend difficult emotions and bring them into the dance to give shape and make visible what might need expressing at this time.

Through our dance, we remember, and we remember how to pray, and there will be some gentle time to privately honour and offer your respect to those who have passed or perhaps to something else that has left or changed which you may feel needs some kind of acknowledgement or completion at this time.

https://schoolofmovementmedicine.com/events/transitions/

You are warmly welcome to join us for a sound medicine journey, accompanied by an herbal tea of native plants selected for their ways of heart support. 

Guided by Annabelle Charanbani, in collaboration with the Sacred Death Centre, as part of National Dying Matters week 2025.

This is an invitation to slow down, cleanse and release, soften into the heart and explore the subtle, unseen inner terrains. Inviting tenderness, care, curiosity – meeting whatever is alive in you that wants to be brought into acknowledgement and flow. Particularly, this sound ceremony is to honour the grief we each may be carrying, knowing that our grief is also always an expression of Love and is an intrinsic part of living with an open heart.

“Grief dares us to love once more.”

-Terry Tempest Williams

We will begin with sharing a tea ritual together, communing with a blend of plants known as allies of the heart and which are particularly supportive in times of grief. We will then flow into a long sound medicine journey to deeply relax, release, rejuvenate on a cellular level and experience a vaster state of awareness, journeying with the support of these beautiful plants to aid us in feeling, perceiving, releasing and integrating.

Instruments include a Chiron gong, crystal singing bowls, drums, flutes, voice, chimes, rattles and more.

This is a part funded event, though booking is highly recommended. As this is a part funded event, your feedback afterwards would be greatly appreciated. (The ticketing platform will send you an email.)

Any donations toward the Sacred Death Centre are welcome, either in advance or on the day. 

For your comfort, we highly recommend bringing a yoga mat and/or sheepskin to lie down on, a blanket to keep warm, and a cushion for your head if you’d like one. 

What is the Grief Recovery Method?

The Grief Recovery Method® is an evidence-based program designed to help you move beyond the pain of loss. Unlike traditional talking therapy, it provides a structured, action-oriented approach to identifying and completing unresolved emotions tied to grief, due to any kind of loss.

This 8-week programme empowers you to take meaningful steps toward healing, helping you rebuild your life with a sense of peace and emotional freedom.

How Can This 8 Week Group Benefit You?

✅ A safe, supportive space to explore your grief without judgment
✅ Practical tools to release emotional pain and find healing
✅ Guided steps to complete unresolved feelings around loss
✅ The opportunity to connect with others who truly understand

Using the Grief Recovery Handbook, we will guide you to take the actions outlined in the handbook over 8 consecutive weeks.   Each session runs from 11am – 1pm, all weeks are mandatory, please consider your capacity to attend before committing to the group.

Each session starts at 11am sharp, please can you arrive by 10:45am so you are settled and ready to start at 11am as we have a lot to cover in each session.

Please be aware that there is a half term week commencing 26th May, you may need to consider childcare on Tuesday 27th (week 2 of the group). It is essential that all sessions are completed in order for you to receive the full benefit of this process.

Catch up sessions can be arranged for illness or unexpected emergencies, but we will be a group of 16, so if you can try to attend the sessions as scheduled that will benefit the flow of the group immensely.

Please review this period of time in your calendar and try to have as little extra commitments as possible.  This work can feel exhausting, extra selfcare during this process is extremely important.

This group would usually be charged at £300 per person. The Sacred Death Centre community association in Glastonbury is partly funding this group, so it is offered to you at £150.

You are required to buy a copy of the Grief Recovery Handbook.  You can buy a copy online via the link at the bottom or you can buy one from us for £10, please add that when you reserve your space in the group. You will also be requested to complete a feedback questionnaire at the end of the course, this will support our new application for funding later in 2025.

Please consider your capacity to commit to the time and emotional effort required to complete this programme. As well as attending the group you will be required to do some reading and complete note taking, or specific written exercises in between each session that requires roughly 60 minutes of your time per week.

We look forward to connecting sharing this work with you.

From our hearts to yours

Lucy Lord & Melissa Taylor

To learn about your facilitators click the links below.

www.lucylord.co.uk

Lucy Lord – The Grief Recovery Method

Melissa Taylor – The Grief Recovery Method

To buy the Grief Recovery Handbook:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grief-Recovery-Handbook-Anniversary-Expanded/dp/0061686077/