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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…

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…

Lanyon Bowdler Supports LEGACY

04/08/2015

Start the conversation…its the best legacy you can leave those you love most.

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

12/06/2015

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

Death & Its Futures

03/06/2015

Dr Wester & Mrs Walker to present research paper at International Conference 6th June 2015

CEDAR Supports the Peter Day Exhibition

18/03/2015

Pictures of My Father – 21st March to 4th April Surface Gallery, 16 Southwell Road, Nottingham NG1 1DL CEDAR CIC is very pleased to be supporting this wonderful exhibition at the Surface Gallery in Nottingham. This exhibition came about as a means to explore personal grief and bereavement. Dr Day, a professional photographer and lecturer, chose his lens to help him explore what loss is, what it is not, and what is imagined in ‘nothingness’. Well worth seeing. Here is…