Workshops

Living Legacies offers practical personalised workshops about living, dying and funerals.
These can help you plan your funeral, or someone else’s, make your wishes known to your family and friends, and/or explore your feelings and any fears you may have about your death or the death of someone you love. 

The next Living Legacies
“Natural Funeral Workshop for Mortals”
is at 2pm on Saturday 7^th June 2025
Central Blenheim (TBA)

Investment $50 per person, or $80 per couple. Bookings essential.
To secure your place please email: Lynda@livinglegacies.nz

Workshops include:

How and why to plan your own funeral
How to arrange a funeral for someone you love
The environmental implications of the funeral industry and the effect on those left behind
How to save $1000s in funeral expenses
The value of a meaningful celebration of life
Grieving and how to support someone who is bereaved
Natural burial parks
Communicating your feelings about death with your loved ones
Grief and family dynamics
How and why to preserve your personal life legacy through photos, journalling, memoirs, autobiography, ethical wills etc.

A funeral can be a time of huge conflict if the deceased’s wishes are not fully communicated, understood, and accepted by all. Grieving can be prolonged if it’s complicated by regrets such as “We should have done…”, and “I wish I had said something”, and “Now it’s too late.” Conversely, it can also be a time of celebration, understanding and love. While funerals are seldom enjoyable, groups who have participated in a Living Legacies workshop and discussed the matter in depth before someone dies usually manage the event much more gracefully than those who are emotionally unprepared.

We also offer workshops to family* groups. These workshops are helpful whether someone has been diagnosed with a terminal illness or not (because, let’s face it, we are all mortal), and as an opportunity to build on your relationships and communicate your feelings, plans, worries, and hopes around loss and death with one another.

We also offer remote workshops via Zoom, for those who live elsewhere around the world.

Our workshops cater for the needs of groups of 3 to 40 people, can be designed and varied according to participants wishes, and held anywhere in New Zealand. So please let us know what your requirements are.
For information about arranging a workshop in your town, please email: Lynda@livinglegacies.nz.

*Living Legacies uses the word “family” to describe any group of people bound together by choice or any common thread.