6:00 – 7:30 pm (EST), monthly on the 4th Wednesday ONLINE.
Please use this link to join Suzanne and the bliss community ONLINE:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86007932318.
A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
It is a safe space to talk about your thoughts, fears, curiosities, challenges, and anything that thinking about death evokes for you.
Death Café was born from the idea of Bernard Crettaz a Swiss sociologist who wanted to break the last taboo in society, that of discussing death; John Underwood in England took the idea and created the first “Death Café” a gathering in a café so people could munch on cake and drink tea while discussing whatever they wanted to about death and life; because as we discuss death it is also that we are looking at life and what it means to openly acknowledge our mortality. From the Death Café website, the objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives’.
Here is an interesting testimonial for Death Café on YouTube:
This will be a safe and confidential space to discuss whatever moves your heart and touches your soul about death and dying; and living, knowing we are mortal.
Facilitator: Suzanne Freed, 843.823.2894,
suzannefreedperformances@gmail.com
Her website is www.envelopesofgod.com.
Suzanne is a retired psychotherapist from Oakland CA. She works as a psychic medium and is a solo performer and writer.
She was a volunteer emotional support counselor in 1984-1985 at the SHANTI Project San Francisco; SHANTI was the first organization in the world in the 1980s to provide emotional and physical support to people with AIDS/HIV. In 2000 she returned to SHANTI as the lead trainer for their 40-hour volunteer training which was held 3 -4 times a year. SHANTI trained hundreds of men and women in the years of the pandemic and beyond.
Suzanne facilitated grief groups in her therapy practice and led her Broken-Hearted Way workshops in the Bay area of California, helping people heal from loss.
She performs solo theater and comedy; her poetry is published in Voices of the Grieving Heart, Edited by Mike Bernhardt (2021); she is the author of Loving Richie: the true story of hearts connected beyond death about her younger brother’s life, his crossing over from AIDS in 1986 and her communication with him in Spirit.