Life Transition and Navigation Platform
Life is a series of moments lived, leaving impressions on the heart, soul and being.
Honour the path, the moments, the imprints, as they truly are unique to you.
Our Vision:
To contribute to creating space within the community where aging, dying, death and grief are not feared. Inviting one to recognise and embrace the notion that death is another life transition, another season of life.
Our Mission:
Honouring Life Education is a community education, empowerment, and connection platform that helps individuals, families, and professionals create Quality of Life and well-being and navigate the various aspects of major life transitions such as aging and dying.
Supported through compassionate, inclusive, practical education, conversations and connections, supporting you to develop informed choice, build confidence, and empowerment to maintain dignity and individuality.
Explore our resources
The invitation is for you to explore the information, resources, supportive organisations, and community groups that can help ease the challenges, answer questions, aid decisions, and shift the big emotions that arise during such transitions.
Whether you are entering retirement, supporting ageing parents, becoming a carer, adjusting to changing health, considering future plans, or simply wanting to understand the options available, Honouring Life Education brings together information and connections to help you feel less alone and more informed.
Topics include:
• Entering and adjusting to retirement
• Becoming a carer and being cared for
• Relocating, downsizing, or moving into supported living
• Changing identity and sense of self
• Independence, autonomy, dignity, and freedoms
• Health, wealth, and legacy planning
• Facing mortality and the conversations, decisions, and emotions that can arise along the way
Life's transitions are usually complex. We aim to provide practical information, thoughtful conversations, and connections with people, services, and support that may help you navigate your journey in ways that feel right for you and those around you.
Plan and Record
Accurately recording what is important to you, your wishes, line in the sand moments and directives are a big part of health and legacy planning. Without these documents, professionals do not know your preferences or what they consider acceptable.
In some instances, your family may not be heard, so having things recorded and countersigned is a much safer way to ensure you will be cared for and that your wishes will be represented when you are not able to.
Now WHAT!?
What do I do now???
Not knowing what to do is common. We can't know what we haven't been exposed to. Our culture, society, and beliefs haven't been death-aware or accepting for a very long time.
The guides provide a quick, simple overview of key considerations when starting the planning and recording process.
Take your time, brainstorm ideas, and collate them with the appropriate professional.
Let's Talk and Heal
Simply a safe space for people to come together and talk about anything related to death, dying, care planning and to be honest, lots of laughs. It's not counselling. It's not a grief group.
It's a safe space to
- ask questions, raise concerns, fears and uncertainty.
- exploring what is possible, and making things happen.
- What is needed, legally, and financially?
- Brainstorm your life celebration showcase: you, your personality, and your wishes.
- You don't even need to share; you can just listen.
Truly, it's self-care and an act of love for you and your family.
Join us on the first Tuesday of the Month.
Our Podcast
Stay Well At Home
There are many resources, support services, aids, and organisations you can reach out to for help, ideas, strategies, tools, information, connection, respite, guidance, and even to vent with.
For yourself, as a carer, a close friend or a service provider. There is something for everyone.
Funeral Planning
As much as society may not want to think about, let alone document preferences, the truth is, it will happen. With or without your say.
Thinking about, discussing, and recording your preferences has been shown to be a huge gift to the executor and to family/friends who will need to finalise your send-off arrangements. Recording your preferences is like a gentle, final gift from beyond
"Honouring Life Education has been an invaluable resource for our family. The compassionate guidance and practical information helped us navigate a difficult time with grace and dignity."
- A grateful family from Brisbane
Contact us
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Location
North Brisbane, QLD Australia
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