📅 WHEN: Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 10:00 to 18:00 (with a lunch break) 📍 WHERE: Warsaw (exact location will be provided in a separate email) Registration: https://instytutdobrejsmierci.pl/czule-pozegnanie-4 What must and what can be done when a loved one passes away at home? How can the family care for their body in those first hours, even before the funeral home arrives? And if the person passed away in a hospital, care home, or hospice – how can we bring more tenderness and human care to the situation? How can staff incorporate supportive rituals into existing procedures to allow the deceased's loved ones to say a proper goodbye? In a friendly environment, we will provide you with basic knowledge and various practices for caring for the deceased. We will show you how to wash and dress the deceased, how to interact with their body in a calm and tender way. Together, we will reflect on what is important during this time. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Consciously experiencing the first hours after death can significantly impact the grieving process. Direct contact with the deceased helps us grasp the reality of death through our own senses. This experience can also help us feel that love transcends death. Saying goodbye tenderly gives us a chance to develop an inner bond with the deceased that will accompany us throughout our lives. Just a few decades ago, most people died in their own homes. After death, the family or other close individuals prepared the body for burial. Knowledge of how to wash and dress the deceased was passed down from generation to generation. Practical tasks were embedded within rituals that helped people navigate this difficult time together. Today, this knowledge has almost disappeared from society. It is common to believe that only professionals in medicine and the funeral industry should have contact with the deceased. However, more and more people feel the need to reclaim agency in matters related to death. We do not want to entrust the care of our loved ones solely to others. We invite you to workshops that will bring back this old, lost knowledge into the hands of people, families, and yours. METHODS The workshop consists of short lectures, group work, and practical exercises. The heart of the workshop is the shared, symbolic care for a living person acting as the deceased. We will provide you with practical, emotional, and theoretical knowledge about how to navigate the first hours after a person's death in a calm, tender, and conscious way. We will show you simple yet effective rituals that can help maintain a bond with the deceased while also saying goodbye to the body. WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR The workshop is open to everyone interested. We invite individuals who accompany others in the process of dying and grieving, both professionally and personally, especially: - People caring for a sick or close family member - Nurses, caregivers, doctors, and other medical professionals - Social workers - Hospice staff and volunteers - Therapists - People working in the funeral industry We warmly invite funeral home staff who want to open up to closer collaboration with clients. If you have had doubts about whether and how to involve families in the care of the deceased, we will show you how this can be done safely and supportively. 📌 CHOOSE YOUR PRICE - If you want to pay the regular price, choose the option of 500 PLN. - If you want to support the Institute of Good Death, choose the price of 550 PLN. - People in difficult financial situations can choose the price of 450 PLN. We are committed to ensuring that no one is excluded for financial reasons. If you want to participate in these workshops but the price is a barrier for you, please contact us ([email protected]), and we will try to find a good solution. FACILITATORS Katarzyna Jackowska – Enemuo Musician / Storyteller An anthropologist by education, a musician, composer, writer, and storyteller by profession. She performs traditional music at concerts and dances but also creates her own songs. She composes music for theater productions. She collects, writes, and tells stories – both fairy tales and non-fairy tales – at festivals, in courtyards, and in prisons. In response to the death of her daughter, she created the music project "Nieuchronne." Author of radio plays (e.g., "Between the World and the Afterlife" for Polish Radio) and books: "The Cloud Weaver" and "Between the World and the Afterlife" (published by Albus). A member of the IDŚ Collective, a celebrant, and co-founder of a transformation initiative that creates and conducts rites of passage – from birth to death. https://nieuchronne.pl https://facebook.com/jackowskaenemuo https://instagram.com/jackowskaenemuo Marta Tarnowska Sociologist / Singer A student of Kurpie funeral singers. Co-founder of "Earthly Lament," a singing practice of mourning songs from rural traditions adapted to grieving the climate catastrophe. Vice-president of the Forum of Traditional Music. She seeks ways to reinterpret elements of rural funeral and All Souls' Day rituals in urban settings, including co-leading singing meetings dedicated to contemporary reinterpretations of rural funeral songs. https://muzykatradycyjna.pl
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