Thinking differently - CEDAR EDUCATION | Community Education in Death Awareness and Resources CIC

In this section we invite people from diverse cultures and walks of life to write about different ways of thinking about death, whether it is from a religious or philosophical perspective or a new way of thinking about one of life’s greatest mysteries.This is the place to come when you want a different perspective on death. It is a good place to learn about some social and cultural views and perspectives about death that you may be unfamiliar with.Please contact us if you are interested in hearing from a particular social, cultural or ethnic group. Let us know if you get something beneficial from of our Chronicles and please pass-it-on

Thank You to MidCounties Co-operative Community Fund

13/10/2020

We are so grateful for the continued support of our MidCounties Cooperative Community Fund to help us deliver death education programmes across the County to our young people and adults on how to talk about death, dying and loss in healthy and appropriate ways. We recently received £1000, which will allow us to purchase a wonderful new teaching and learning software in order to put some of our awarding-winning death education classes online. This will help us reach more young…

Presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

28/07/2020

CEDAR Education founder Dr Judith Wester and four volunteers attended the presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service on the evening of 27th July 2020. Dr Wester and Hannah Davies were presented with the crystal award and a certificate signed by Her Majesty the Queen by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, Anna Turner JP. Dr Wester has worked in the field of death education for many years and started CEDAR Education to normalise the conversation around death, dying, loss…

Focus Group – Death Education in Schools

12/04/2023

We are running a focus group to help us to understand some of the difficulties which might be faced by teachers running classes on death and dying. The focus group will ask simple questions relating to this, and we will invite your input via small discussion groups, each chaired by a CEDAR volunteer. Better knowledge of the problems of discussing death will help us to develop and provide resources to make lessons easier and more approachable for staff and pupils…

Companion Animal Bereavement

09/09/2022

A time to talk. Join others at this special cafe and talk about the death of a beloved pet or animal companion. After a number of requests, we wanted to give those who needed an accepting space to talk about the joy and loss of a special pet.

CEDAR wins prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

02/06/2020

We are thrilled to announce that we have won the coveted Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. We applied last year and met with Colonel Mark Cuthbert-Brown, Vice Lord-Lieutenant for Shropshire on a couple of occasions to answer questions, fill in forms and generally make sure that everything about our application was as it should be. We are so pleased to be one of five winners across Shropshire and will be presented with the award later this year by the county’s…

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12/12/2019

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K is for KUBLER-ROSS

30/10/2019

The A – Z of Death – K is for Kübler-Ross. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist working with terminally ill patients in the 1960s. Her book, On Death and Dying outlines five stages that terminally ill patients go through: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. This model has been taken out of context and applied to grieving in general, leading to a popular assumption that the bereaved go through a linear process of recovery. Although the model can be…

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16/10/2019

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16/10/2019

This ticket is for booking both Part 1, How To Talk About Death In Healthy Ways and Part 2, Understanding Grief, together. You receive a £50 discount, meaning the workshops cost £250 rather than £300. Book via Eventbrite by clicking this link

16/10/2019

Building confidence and resilience to deal with life’s greatest challenges–death, dying and loss. Book by clicking this link to Eventbrite Day 2: Wednesday, 04 December 2019 (£150 or £125 w/discount) Understanding Grief will: • Extend your knowledge of how grief affects the individual, workplace or community • Improve your ability to console the bereaved • Review notions of time and how to use them • Help you understand the behaviours of the bereaved • Explore the meaning of Legacy •…