Tea Rooms
Do you find it difficult to talk about your concerns or fears of death with your friends or family, but feel you need to open up to someone?
Has the pandemic got you thinking more about your mortality recently and would you like a safe space to share your thoughts?
Cost
Our Last Wishes Tea Rooms are free community events in a safe space for anyone to talk about anything related to death and dying.
They provide support for anyone who would like to talk about anything coming up for them, or indeed any curiosity or end of life concern. Currently our Last Wishes Tea Rooms are online. With safe distancing measures anyone can join us by logging in from around the globe.
How to Register
Simply click this link to take you to our events page and choose a date you would like to join us OR
email your interest at TeaRooms@LastWishes.world
You will be sent a zoom link to join us.
Joining in on the Last Wishes Tea Room session held in such a safe, intimate, sacred space, to discuss a very personal decision I had made, was a truly amazing experience, thank you to all who made it possible.
The Last Wishes Tea Room proved to be a safe place in which to explore questions around death and dying. Amanda’s gentle facilitation enabled me to clarify my thoughts whilst being inspired by the sharing of my fellow participants.
Purpose
Last Wishes Tea Rooms are a safe space to talk about any issues or concerns about death and dying. Our world is currently in this extraordinary state with Covid 19 highlighting heightened death rates in daily news. Awareness of our mortality has never been at such global levels in our modern age.
We cover a variety of end of life considerations, from topics with slightly heavier themes, to lighter more joyful reflections. Last Wishes Tea Rooms can gently guide end of life conversations or open your awareness to the vast variety of options available for you and your loved ones.
How to Prepare
We encourage you to take a moment before you join us in a Last Wishes Tea Room, make yourself your own calming cup of tea and join us on Zoom.
These Tea Rooms are designed to support and empower you around your end of life choices. Last Wishes Tea Rooms are not group therapy or grief counselling, but our conversations are therapeutic, real and refreshing despite the theme.
While details of conversations are confidential in the space you might find your experience a conversation starter with someone who has never been to a Last Wishes Tea Room, or a loved one who you wish to talk to more about this sensitive subject.
For More Information
If you would like to hear the founders’ responses to issues around end of life, death and dying visit our Founders Tea Room. Each week we pick a new card from our Last Wishes Cards and each of us share on the card’s theme and what it bring up for each of us.
If you would like to take the time to write your own answers to the topics raised on our Last Wishes Cards, please consider our Last Wishes Journal that provides space to consider and journal your responses to each card.
Last Wishes Founders Tea Rooms
As part of our mission to educate, inspire and empower you to make your Last Wishes and Live Your Legacy. We invite you to join us as we discuss end of life, death and dying.
Our Founders Tea Rooms started as an initiative to share our responses to issues often considered taboo.
Each week we pick a new card from our Last Wishes Cards and each of us share on the card's theme and what it brings up for each of us.
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What Our Customers are Saying about Us
Jean leaves no stone unturned, no aspect unexplained – and I had no idea it would be such fun. Under her sensitive guidance and with her extensive knowledge of what is possible… Thank you Jean, for your inspired, humorous and down to earth approach to a subject that is so often considered taboo.
It was a wonderfully inspiring day, that taught me so much. I would recomend it to anyone. It was a real fun day. And at the end of it you come out with something of real value for your loved ones, when they will need it most… If you get the chance to… attend… !
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Courses & Workshops
Last Wishes provides face to face or online training that covers the importance of and options around planning the end of your life.
For peace of mind, for yourself and your loved ones, we've created easy to follow courses that take you by the hand to look at your end of life considerations. We help you understand the options available and the impact those choices have on your family, friends, community and the environment.
Last Wishes Tea Rooms
Our Last Wishes Tea Rooms are free community events in a safe space for anyone to talk about anything related to death and dying.
They provide support for anyone who would like to talk about anything coming up for them, or indeed any curiosity or end of life concern. Currently our Last Wishes Tea Rooms are online. With safe distancing measures anyone can join us by logging in from around the globe.
Covid-19 Suppport
One of our community projects is to provide regular ongoing Support and Supervision for Funeral Directors and Funeral Celebrants.
As a result of Covid-19 Funeral Directors and Funeral Celebrants are working long hours in extremely difficult situations due to the increased volume of bodies and necessary laws to keep everyone safe. Contact us to find out more about our Group Support and Individual Supervision Available.