Training
& Workshops


Let’s Discuss Death was founded with the intention of helping people to become more confident and comfortable thinking and talking about death, dying and bereavement. We offer a range of training and workshop opportunities for people of all ages.

By tackling death and bereavement with openness and directness, you demystified and made much less scary a topic most of us try to ignore most of the time.

According to research by Child Bereavement UK, 1 in 29 children will be bereaved of a parent or sibling before they turn 16. This works out as about one child in every class.

Despite this, training in bereavement support is not a statutory part of training for teachers.

We can support you - whatever educational setting you are working in - with teacher training or the development of an effective bereavement policy for your school or college.

We can also help develop teaching resources to cover these topics with children.

You manage to convey such gentleness and humanity as you cover, albeit quite difficult, content that people are left reassured as well as informed. As a result of your work, our cohort of teachers will be much more aware of bereavement and  better equipped to respond to their learners.

Programme Leader for Initial Teacher Training

LETTA Trust

Training for Teachers & Support for Schools

 Workshops for Families, Businesses & Communities

Death and grief have been taboo topics for a long time.

We offer workshops for people of all ages across a range of topics.

Some options are listed below, but more are possible - just get in touch and tell us what you need.

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Conversation Starters

1 Let's Discuss Death: Breaking the Silence

  • Creating safe spaces for open dialogue on death and dying

2 Letters to the Living: What I Want You to Know

  • A writing workshop to share wishes, stories, and legacy messages

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Planning & Practicalities

1. End-of-Life Planning 101

  • Advance directives, power of attorney, wills, addressing the needs of LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodiverse people, or marginalized communities

2. Your Funeral, Your Way

  • Exploring funeral options, personal rituals, green burials, etc.

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Creative Expression & Legacy

1. Memory Books and Legacy Projects

  • Scrapbooking, audio storytelling, or digital memory boxes

2. Bucket Lists and Life Purpose

  • Reflecting on life goals in the context of mortality

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Emotional & Spiritual Resilience

1. Grief Is Not Linear: Understanding Bereavement

  • Supporting others in grief

2. Death and Meaning: A Spiritual Exploration

  • Interfaith and secular approaches to death and the afterlife

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Workplace Workshops

1. The Grief-Ready Workplace: Building a Culture of Care

  • Shape workplace policies, culture, and communication to better accommodate grief and loss

2. Loss Beyond Bereavement: Recognizing Grief in Change, Transition, and Crisis

  • Expand understanding of grief beyond death

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Intergenerational Workshops

1. Explaining Death to Children

  • Helping parents and carers talk about death in age-appropriate ways

2. What Matters Most: A Family Discussion

  • Facilitating intergenerational conversations about values, care, and wishes

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