Presenter: Caramia Fisher, LCSW
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024, 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Registration: Details / Register Online
This workshop will explore how death has historically been viewed pre-20th Century, and how now in the 21st Century, many of those same views and memorial practices are being set back into place. We will discuss how we as death and grief educators and practitioners can support this societal shift.
Participants in this workshop will explore:
- What types of memorial practices were used in the Victorian age (mourning jewelry, hair memorials, post-mortem photography, mourning periods, dolls, burial vessels)
- How death and mourning were sanitized in the 20th Century
- How to identify positive death discussion and bereavement practices, along with memorial practices, for the 21st Century (death salons, proactive education groups and education, memorial jewelry, burial practices, cremation and ashes)
- Bereavement customs within specific communities that remain in practice and have shown increased activity since COVID-19.
This presentation is offered in partnership with the NW Association for Death Education & Bereavement Support, a nonprofit organization that exists to promote quality death education and bereavement support for professionals and the greater community.
