PUD Monthly March 2024
Living With Death Exhibition: Leeds City Museum comes to Todmorden
Monday March 21, 7 - 9 pm
Natural Endings Funeral Services, Former Mail Sorting Office, Rise Lane, Todmorden, OL147AA
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Thursday March 21. We are excited to host a visit from Adam Jaffer who is Curator, World Cultures at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
This May a new exhibition launches at Leeds City Museum entitled Living with Death: an exhibition exploring death, dying and bereavement
This exhibition invites visitors to discover how people experience death, grief and dying in different ways. Living with Death looks at how humans have developed knowledge and skills in response to life ending. We know that death affects everyone, but it is often difficult to talk about. The exhibition hopes to gently encourage conversation through personal stories, and objects from across the world and throughout history.A series of talks, workshops, and family-friendly events will complement the exhibition throughout the year.
For this Pushing Up Daisies event, Adam will be joining us to talk about the thinking behind the exhibition and associated events (running May 2024 to January 2025), the museum's hopes and intentions, as well as bringing us a box of death related artefacts and sharing some images for a sneak peek before the exhibition begins!
He will then answer questions and share his knowledge in a Q & A session.
We are hugely grateful to Natural Endings for offering their space to us for this event and we hope you can join us. Though the evening is free, we ask you to register so we have an idea of numbers for planning. Please register here.
Refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you on the 21st!
PUD Monthly February 2024
Dignity in Dying: A personal perspective
Monday February 12th, 6 - 8 pm
The Honest John (Lounge), Rochdale Road, Todmorden
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Monday on the subject of assisted dying.
This will be held in the lounge (just inside the door) of the Honest John public house and cafe on Rochdale Road.
We welcome a talk from Jennifer Wilson, a member of Dignity in Dying, sharing a brief history of the organisation and her own personal experience. We will hear what is on the horizon and about other countries who have adopted assisted dying laws.
This is an information giving session enabling attendees to reflect on the themes covered to hopefully help inform personal views and decisions. There will be time for questions and a moderated discussion. Please bring your questions or submit them by email to pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com.
PUD Monthly January 2024
What do End of Life Doulas do?
Monday, January 8th from 6 - 7.30 pm
The Kindness Hub, Todmorden
The next PUD Monthly is on Monday, January 8th from 6 - 7.30 pm
Rachel and Mandy are a couple of death doulas living in the Calder Valley.
They will provide an informal chat about “What Doulas Do”
1. Brief overview of their training
2. An outline of what spiritual, practical and emotional support may look like in the context doulas may work in
3. An understanding of the dying process, grief, and compassionate communities.
4. Examples of sharing experiences as end-of-life doulas
And plenty of time for Q&A - with tea and coffee provided :-)
PUD Monthly December 2023
Christmas, Holidays and Loss
Monday, December 11, 6 - 7.30 pm
The next PUD Monthly is on Monday, December 11 from 6 - 7.30 pm. For December we invite you to a themed group conversation around coping with loss at Christmas as well as other significant dates. Holidays after a loss are always hard but whether the loss is recent, or many years ago, you are welcome to share this space and hopefully find some solace and friendliness. Come along to share and hear from others discussing anything connected to this theme.
The conversation will be formed by what you bring and may include but is not limited to:
PUD Monthly November 2023
Bereavement - What is it? A group conversation
Monday November 13 - Todmorden Library
Do we concur on our interpretation of this?
Do we each have our own experience?
Can we understand how it affects us?
What, if anything, can we do about it?
To help us investigate this topic we have Jackie Archer, a local therapist / counsellor who has specialised in working with bereavement and grief, she also has personal experience of loss and recently ran a local bereavement group.
Then, there's the "rest of us", ordinary people, wondering what on earth is happening to us.
Is it an inevitable experience? You've probably got your own questions or opinions, so please come along and help us answer this basic question.
We may well discover that it's not as basic as some of us might think.
Living With Death Exhibition: Leeds City Museum comes to Todmorden
Monday March 21, 7 - 9 pm
Natural Endings Funeral Services, Former Mail Sorting Office, Rise Lane, Todmorden, OL147AA
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Thursday March 21. We are excited to host a visit from Adam Jaffer who is Curator, World Cultures at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
This May a new exhibition launches at Leeds City Museum entitled Living with Death: an exhibition exploring death, dying and bereavement
This exhibition invites visitors to discover how people experience death, grief and dying in different ways. Living with Death looks at how humans have developed knowledge and skills in response to life ending. We know that death affects everyone, but it is often difficult to talk about. The exhibition hopes to gently encourage conversation through personal stories, and objects from across the world and throughout history.A series of talks, workshops, and family-friendly events will complement the exhibition throughout the year.
For this Pushing Up Daisies event, Adam will be joining us to talk about the thinking behind the exhibition and associated events (running May 2024 to January 2025), the museum's hopes and intentions, as well as bringing us a box of death related artefacts and sharing some images for a sneak peek before the exhibition begins!
He will then answer questions and share his knowledge in a Q & A session.
We are hugely grateful to Natural Endings for offering their space to us for this event and we hope you can join us. Though the evening is free, we ask you to register so we have an idea of numbers for planning. Please register here.
Refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you on the 21st!
PUD Monthly February 2024
Dignity in Dying: A personal perspective
Monday February 12th, 6 - 8 pm
The Honest John (Lounge), Rochdale Road, Todmorden
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Monday on the subject of assisted dying.
This will be held in the lounge (just inside the door) of the Honest John public house and cafe on Rochdale Road.
We welcome a talk from Jennifer Wilson, a member of Dignity in Dying, sharing a brief history of the organisation and her own personal experience. We will hear what is on the horizon and about other countries who have adopted assisted dying laws.
This is an information giving session enabling attendees to reflect on the themes covered to hopefully help inform personal views and decisions. There will be time for questions and a moderated discussion. Please bring your questions or submit them by email to pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com.
PUD Monthly January 2024
What do End of Life Doulas do?
Monday, January 8th from 6 - 7.30 pm
The Kindness Hub, Todmorden
The next PUD Monthly is on Monday, January 8th from 6 - 7.30 pm
Rachel and Mandy are a couple of death doulas living in the Calder Valley.
They will provide an informal chat about “What Doulas Do”
1. Brief overview of their training
2. An outline of what spiritual, practical and emotional support may look like in the context doulas may work in
3. An understanding of the dying process, grief, and compassionate communities.
4. Examples of sharing experiences as end-of-life doulas
And plenty of time for Q&A - with tea and coffee provided :-)
PUD Monthly December 2023
Christmas, Holidays and Loss
Monday, December 11, 6 - 7.30 pm
The next PUD Monthly is on Monday, December 11 from 6 - 7.30 pm. For December we invite you to a themed group conversation around coping with loss at Christmas as well as other significant dates. Holidays after a loss are always hard but whether the loss is recent, or many years ago, you are welcome to share this space and hopefully find some solace and friendliness. Come along to share and hear from others discussing anything connected to this theme.
The conversation will be formed by what you bring and may include but is not limited to:
- Who and what you're grieving
- The traditions and rituals you're navigating
- Changing plans, taking breaks, leaving early, and taking care of yourself.
- Communication and solutions when you can't join in
- Holding a space for the person you have lost
- Enjoying holidays and guilt experienced
PUD Monthly November 2023
Bereavement - What is it? A group conversation
Monday November 13 - Todmorden Library
Do we concur on our interpretation of this?
Do we each have our own experience?
Can we understand how it affects us?
What, if anything, can we do about it?
To help us investigate this topic we have Jackie Archer, a local therapist / counsellor who has specialised in working with bereavement and grief, she also has personal experience of loss and recently ran a local bereavement group.
Then, there's the "rest of us", ordinary people, wondering what on earth is happening to us.
Is it an inevitable experience? You've probably got your own questions or opinions, so please come along and help us answer this basic question.
We may well discover that it's not as basic as some of us might think.