27 Jan 2023 | Funerals, Death and Dying, End of Life Planning

Celebrating This Precious Life

Celebrating This Precious Life – Honest Conversations about Death and Dying You are welcome to join me for the next six-month online program, “Celebrating This Precious Life: Honest Conversations about Death and Dying”. There are seven sessions once a month on the first Monday of the month. Starting April 2023…

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Let the Candles Speak

12 Jan 2023 | Funerals, Death and Dying, End of Life Planning

Being With Those in Deep Grief

Let the Candles Speak —by Patricia McKernon Runkle Slip off your needs and set them by the door. Enter barefoot this darkened chapel hollowed by loss hallowed by sorrow its gray stone walls and floor. You, congregation of one are here to listen not to sing. Kneel in the back…

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31 Dec 2022 | Ceremonies

What is Love on New Years Eve?

We had a NYE family ritual when my kids were little of putting a large piece of cardboard or butchers paper in the centre of the floor or table. We would all have coloured pens and write down the things that had touched us in the current year. Highlights, gifts…

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30 Nov 2022 | Mindfulness

Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence February 2023

I’m back for 2023! I am delighted to announce that Kate Raffin and I will be hosting two Ongo programs next year starting in February. 12 week Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence online program – a practical, doable guide if you want: to relate to others in a more collaborative way that brings connection even…

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15 Nov 2022 | Healing

Upon Waking

Being Wendy Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment, without judgement. A foundational way of meeting ourselves in all our fullness, colours, stories, feelings, sensations. Our body. Our breath. That quiet moment between sleeping and waking, before the thoughts cloud the empty space of being. Before the list of things to do takes…

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07 Nov 2022 | Celebrants

Thorny Conversations

Mindfulness: Engaging in Thorny Conversations as a Celebrant  The Celebrant School in New Zealand is hosting a very special program next month. Join popular presenter and celebrant coach, Wendy Haynes on Mon 21 & 28 Nov by Zoom, 7-9pm, if you ever find yourself caught in these thorny situations as…

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Loving Kindness

31 Oct 2022 | Mindfulness

Loving kindness one breath at a time

“Close your eyes or simply let them soften. Take a few deep breaths and then it fall into a comfortable rhythm… Turn your attention to the energy of loving kindness that lives in you. Offering this energy of loving kindness to yourself, say, in the quiet of your own heart. May…

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Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence

28 Sep 2022 | Mindfulness

Loving Kindness Meditation and Ongo 2.0

I am constantly amazed by the offerings given to the world by Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence authors, Catherine Cadden and Jesse Wiens Chu.  I extend their invitation to join us online. The short video meditation is a gem that is beautifully crafted together. Catherine and Jesse write: The Ongo Book 2.0 is here,…

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28 Sep 2022 | Elderhood

The Long Now—Bunya Time

The Long Now   I have joined the faculty at The Fifth Direction! I’ll be hosting the Elder Wisdom Circle online every fourth Monday of the month at 7.30pm (Sydney, NSW). You are most welcome to join me in the company of a beautiful group of women. Thank you to…

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05 Aug 2022 | Mindfulness

Forgiveness

The wonderful poet, David Whyte hosts a series of talks every second month, called the Three Sundays. In the last session of The Three Sunday’s in July he read the poem, Forgiveness from his book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. This inspired me to use his…

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