Thinking differently – Page 5 – 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

New Graduates of Level I: Death Education for Health & Wellbeing

27/10/2017

CEDAR has been very busy teaching professionals around the county how to talk about death, dying and loss to their students, clients, family & friends. Here are some new recruits who completed the Level I: Death Education for Health & Wellbeing. They include Diane Drummond, Severn Hospice; Nick Herbert, Energize; Jenny England, Derwen College; Amanda Crane, Shropshire Youth Association; our own CEDAR volunteer – Tina Hughes; and Lindsay Barton of Partners in Social Enterprise. They are keen to take our…

Understanding Grief – A brand new CEDAR Workshop with Dr Wester

16/08/2017

Do you need to better understand and respond to death and dying while being more inclusive in how you communicate with those who are bereaved? Dr Judith Wester will be teaching two highly praised workshops to help the professional, parent, teacher and adults do just that. These are not-to-be missed opportunities to learn something new about the everyday issues of loss…For more details and how to book go to: Understanding Grief Workshop. We are also running a special workshop on…

Normalising Death, means overcoming our fears to discuss it.

02/08/2017

They say that one of the best ways to overcome a fear of something is to face the thing you fear most. This can be scary, but not impossible to do when it comes to learning to travel by airplane when you are afraid of flying; or getting in an elevator when you are afraid of small spaces; or standing on a bridge over a gully when you are afraid of heights. But what if that fear is of death?…

Why the only future worth building includes everyone

24/05/2017

Whether or not you follow a particular belief or have no belief, moral values in an age of anxiety will always be of benefit if you want your community to thrive. At CEDAR we strive to remain neutral in our teaching and understanding of death, dying and loss. This becomes particularly important in light of the 22 May 2017 bombing at the end of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Below is a special message from Pope Francis as he addresses…

Working Together

06/12/2016

CEDAR EDUCATION now has a Youth Advisory Team that works with us to help us make sure our death education courses for young people are interactive and engaging enough for the curious mind. They not only tell us if a lesson is b-o-r-i-n-g, but they offer unique and effective suggestions on how to make each lesson more enticing for their age group. Keep watching these pages to see how much they have had to offer our Life Lessons team and…

New Life Lessons!

21/07/2016

CEDAR is launching our new Life Lessons programme for young people, which will run in Oswestry this year. The programme, which is sponsored by the office of John Campion Police & Crime Commissioner of West Mercia is also supported by the Shropshire NHS CCG Young Health Champions’ group and promises to be both rewarding and constructive. This year the new cohort of students will join graduates from the 2014/2015 group of ‘Dragon Riders’ to help create learning packs for schools to…

Taking Life Lessons to Taiwan

02/03/2016

Dr. Judith Wester, founder of CEDAR Education, and expert in death education, has been invited to work with PhD students studying ‘Everyday Life’ at the College of Indigenous Studies at the National Dong Hwa University in Haulien, Taiwan. She will be introducing them to the unique Life Lessons programme she developed to teach young people how to talk about death, dying and loss in healthy and compassionate ways. The Life Lessons programme was piloted in the Shrewsbury, Shropshire area in…

Dr Wester to Speak at SFE

21/01/2016

Dr Wester is to speak at the SFE (Solicitors for the Elderly) Regional Group Conference: 21 January 2016 Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Raod, Shrewsbury SY3 8XQ Time: 2:00-5:00pm The conference is on: Death – The Final Taboo? Dr Wester will be speaking on why talking about death is important and how developing a better understanding of death can affect the legacy you leave your loved ones. Other speakers include the Senior Coroner for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, John Ellery…

The Social Construction of Death

03/12/2015

The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Edited by Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier (2014) Palgrave Macmillian Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the…

The Graveyard Book Review

01/12/2015

The novel is particularly poignant in its portrayal of the often isolating feeling of loss, alongside the crucial role that communities, friends and family can play in overcoming this.