Thinking differently – Page 7 – 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

Katy’s Blog #6 – Good Grief

17/11/2014

‘Good Grief’ the Young Health Champions take it further! After the completion of the initial CEDAR ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, a focus group was created with the Young Health Champion participants to collect their feedback on the programme. They were very positive and the participants were requesting to learn more! So this led to the development of a second level of education that would allow more information to be taught about how to respond to grief and how to help others.…

Peter Walker gives CEDAR a new look

05/11/2014

Peter Walker Designs

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

05/11/2014

Having just won the coveted 2014 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, we thought we should feature Helen MacDonald’s book ‘H is for Hawk’ here. It tells the story of how her father’s death prompted Helen to follow a childhood dream and become a falconer. She discusses how the experience of working with a bird of prey, being in natural surroundings and feeling her soul sore with the bird helped her to gain a new insight into death, grief and loss.…

YHC launches new space

04/11/2014

CEDAR helps at YHC Launch

Katy’s Blog #5–Away with the birds

03/11/2014

Now, many would wonder – including me – what have birds got to do with learning about death and dying?

Katy’s Blog #4–Day of the Dead:

23/10/2014

Cedar held the second day of ‘Life Lessons’ and all the Youth Health Champions turned up, including one more! This was not a surprise as it had been a captivating lesson that was held the day before, and so the participants seemed eager to learn more. On this day, we were introduced to the ‘Day of the Dead’, which sounds as if it is going to be about something morbid and yet on the contrary was full of colour, brightness,…

Katy’s Blog#3 – Life Lessons Day 1

06/10/2014

Dr Judith Wester introduced everyone to the first ‘Life Lesson’. Hold on a minute… surely we were here to learn about death and all the gruesome things associated with it- I was expecting morbid talks, counselling, gory details, crying and yet the workshop was being called ‘Life Lessons’. It was a surprising start and straight away we adjusted to the fact that we were going to be thrown a curve ball and have to start rethinking all we had previously…

Introduction to ‘Life Lessons’

03/10/2014

Katy’s Blog #2 My recent work with CEDAR has led me to participate and observe a fantastic group of young people following them on a journey into a new realm exploring and learning about a somewhat taboo, alternative and dare I say it ‘scary’ topic of death and dying. Adults may shy away from broaching this subject and some may think young people ought not even be thinking or speaking about a such topic – and yet every day young…

CEDAR wins PCC Grant

19/09/2014

CEDAR wins PCC Grant