National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)Conversation with Dr. Kami Fletcher, associate professor of American & African American History at Albright College and President of The Collective for Radical Death Studies, about black funerals in the US--aiming to understand the different values, needs and cultural practices that are alive in community today. Hard questions posed about racism and equity and how awareness of these realities effect advocacy work and the strength of our social justice movements.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
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Black Funerals in the US - Dr. Kami Fletcher, Associate Professor, Albright CollegeNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-01-18 | Conversation with Dr. Kami Fletcher, associate professor of American & African American History at Albright College and President of The Collective for Radical Death Studies, about black funerals in the US--aiming to understand the different values, needs and cultural practices that are alive in community today. Hard questions posed about racism and equity and how awareness of these realities effect advocacy work and the strength of our social justice movements.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
GET INVOLVED -- Donate to the NHFA: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/d... -- Buy NHFA Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/nationa... -- Become a NHFA Member: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/b... -- Get listed in the NHFA Directory: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/j...
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homefuneral... -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsClip: Grief & Disability with Marc MarkellNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-08-17 | Check out this excerpt from our June 2023 Webinar: Grief & People with Disabilities with Marc Markell! Marc is a disabled educator who also specializes in supporting people with disabilities as they grieve.
Until June 2024, you can download a recording of this event for a sliding scale donation starting at $10: homefuneralalliance.org/webinars. After June 2024, this recording will be available for free on YouTube.
ABOUT THIS WEBINAR This presentation focuses on the experiences of people with disabilities as they grieve. Many people with disabilities experience disenfranchised grief, which means they do not receive the same level of support as people without disabilities. Although grief is highly individual, some people with disabilities who are grieving may have needs unique to this population. This presentation will cover person-centered and identity-first approaches to engaging people with disabilities; how people with disabilities may experience cyclical grief in regards to their experience of disability; and tips for companioning disabled people on their grief journeys.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Marc Markell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Special Education at St. Cloud State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and Educational Psychology. He is a certified Professional Development Specialist through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He is a certified Thanatologist through the Association of Death Educators and Counseling, and certified in Death and Grief Studies from Colorado State University through the Center for Loss and Life Transition.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
GET INVOLVED -- Donate to the NHFA: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/d... -- Buy NHFA Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/nationa... -- Become a NHFA Member: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/b... -- Get listed in the NHFA Directory: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/j...NHFA Unpausing Conversation - May 12, 2023National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-06-02 | The NHFA Is Officially Unpaused! Watch our Community Conversation on Unpausing, which took place Friday, May 12th, 2023. We reflect on what we've done during the pause and discuss where we plan to go from here.
In the summer of 2021, the NHFA board decided that we needed to hit pause in order to break down over a decade's worth of an institutional vision that had not interrogated the “isms” inherent in our organization: notably racism, anti-trans bias, classism, and ableism. Since hitting pause, we've dedicated our time to reviewing, revising, and continuing to learn -- making sure that that everything the NHFA offers aligns with our belief that community-led deathcare is truly for everyone, without exception.
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The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefunerals -- TikTok: tiktok.com/@homefuneralalliance -- Newsletter: homefuneralalliance.org/#signupDanis Favorite Items for Home FuneralsNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-02-10 | From "Home Funeral Body Care with Lauren Carroll & Dani LaVoire," originally posted in 2019. We encourage you to explore sacred smoke options in addition to sage that align with your cultural practices!Im also doing my own personal work of recognizing white supremacyNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-01-28 | Board member Alice Toohey talks about the work of addressing white supremacy personally and in the work of the NHFA. From "A Conversation About The Pause," August 2021.What brought me here to this pause is exhaustionNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-01-28 | NHFA board member Lashanna Williams talks about the NHFA Pause in August 2021.A Conversation About Hitting PauseNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2023-01-23 | In August 2021, the NHFA Board hosted a community conversation about hitting pause in order to address the "-isms" in our organization: notably, racism, classism, ableism, and anti-trans bias.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
---------- Learn how to expand your practice from one of the mothers of the home funeral movement. Jerrigrace is going to share all kinds of touching and helpful information on pet home funerals.
With Jerrigrace Lyons, Minister, Death Midwife, Reiki Master, founder of Final Passages Institute for Conscious Dying, Home Funeral and Green Burial Education. Thanks to BEyond Yonder Virtual School for Community Deathcaring in Canada for sponsoring 'Pet Home Funerals.'
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
GET INVOLVED -- Donate to the NHFA: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/d... -- Buy NHFA Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/nationa... -- Become a NHFA Member: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/b... -- Get listed in the NHFA Directory: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/j...
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homefuneral... -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsGoing the Distance: Reimagining Ritual in Death and Life During the COVID-19 PandemicNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2022-11-09 | In this 2020 webinar, Elisa Chase (celebrantinstitute.org) presents and facilitates an open conversation on leveraging the enduring power of imagination and reinvention to serve our clients and ourselves during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsHome Funerals 201: Caring for the Dead in Challenging CircumstancesNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2022-09-28 | In this Home Funerals 201 program, Heather Massey guides a discussion on ways to familiarize, encourage and support families in their own deathcare practices, even under difficult circumstances — including infant death, autopsy, physical trauma, decomposition, and more.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsCompanioning Skills for Home Funeral Guides with Amy Wright GlennNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2020-09-29 | In this hour-long discussion, Amy shares the basics of what it means to “hold space” for others and how that contrasts with helping and companioning. Drawing from sources like Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Susan Silk, and her hospital chaplain mentor, she describes variations in grief journeys and how we can be present with people in their darkest times.
The NHFA advocates for preserving the rights of families to care for their own dead while supporting home funeral guides in their calling to guide families when needed. homefuneralalliance.org
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
GET INVOLVED -- Donate to the NHFA: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/d... -- Buy NHFA Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/nationa... -- Become a NHFA Member: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/b... -- Get listed in the NHFA Directory: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/j...
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homefuneral... -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsCommunity Deathcare: Where to Start | Lashanna WilliamsNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2020-08-09 | Lashanna Williams of A Sacred Passing (asacredpassing.org) leads a discussion on where to start with community deathcare—from basic supplies to thoughts on mentorship. (Jump to 20:13 to skip past introductions)
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsHome Funerals in Context - Dr. Phil Olson, Virginia TechNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2020-04-15 | Dr. Phil Olson, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech Department of Science, Technology, and Society. First in a series of National Home Funeral Alliance Community Care 2020 webinars.NHFA 2020 Educational InitiativeNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2020-01-30 | NHFA President Dani LaVoire introduces the 2020 goal of the National Home Funeral Alliance.Home Funeral Body Care with Lauren Carroll & Dani LaVoireNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2018-11-13 | Lauren Carroll and Dani LaVoire walk us through the practical elements of home funeral body care with a video demonstration, followed by an open Q&A session. Get real-world advice on body care, and hear the personal stories and experiences of two women that bring true wisdom with them.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
GET INVOLVED -- Donate to the NHFA: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/d... -- Buy NHFA Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/nationa... -- Become a NHFA Member: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/b... -- Get listed in the NHFA Directory: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/j...
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homefuneral... -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefunerals --Tiktok: tiktok.com/@homefuneralallianceArtistic Representations of Death & Mortality, with Tim HowellNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2018-11-13 | Death is rarely beautiful, but the art that comes out of grief and mourning can be. Writer and artist, Tim Howell, leads an open forum conversation around some of the artwork, music, fiction, and poetry that explores death, grief, and mortality. Be ready to share the pieces that stand out to you, and participate throughout the conversation.
The NHFA is a community-driven organization run entirely by a volunteer working board. There are no paid staff. Your donations and sponsorships directly support the resources, education, and events that NHFA is able to offer its members. Without your generosity, we cannot keep doing this work. homefuneralalliance.org/donate.htmlHome Funeral Guidance as a Business, with Terry SkovronekNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2018-11-13 | Terry Skovronek, home funeral practitioner and teacher, examines concerns about money, making a business, and the law of caring for dead loved ones and community members. What should one charge for such services? Is it wise to want to become part of the death-trade?
The NHFA is a community-driven organization run entirely by a volunteer working board. There are no paid staff. Your donations and sponsorships directly support the resources, education, and events that NHFA is able to offer its members. Without your generosity, we cannot keep doing this work. homefuneralalliance.org/donate.htmlHome Funeral Body Care BasicsNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2018-11-13 | Lauren Carroll and Dani LaVoire walk us through the practical elements of home funeral body care with a video demonstration, followed by an open Q&A session. Get real-world advice on body care, and hear the personal stories and experiences of two women that bring true wisdom with them.
The NHFA is a community-driven organization run entirely by a volunteer working board. There are no paid staff. Your donations and sponsorships directly support the resources, education, and events that NHFA is able to offer its members. Without your generosity, we cannot keep doing this work. homefuneralalliance.org/donate.htmlLessons Learned from My Home Funeral Experience, with Lucy Basler.National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2018-11-13 | Educating interested folks about home funerals is what we do, but have we included "uninterested folks" like the Coroner/Medical Examiner, EMT's, sheriff/police deputies, Country Registrar of Deeds? Lucy Basler, of Sacred Ceremonies, passes on the lessons she learned when her friend's husband died unexpectedly, and reality didn't meet expectations.
Originally presented as part of the NHFA 2018 Fundraiser, on 11/2/2018.
In this session, expert speaker Merilynne Rush, RN, discusses radical self-care, specific techniques, and appreciating the profound nature of the work we do as caregivers.
The NHFA empowers families to care for their own dead by providing educational opportunities and connections to resources that promote environmentally sound and culturally nurturing death practices.
The NHFA empowers families to care for their own dead by providing educational opportunities and connections to resources that promote environmentally sound and culturally nurturing death practices.
With Jerrigrace Lyons, Minister, Death Midwife, Reiki Master, founder of Final Passages Institute for Conscious Dying, Home Funeral and Green Burial Education. Thanks to BEyond Yonder Virtual School for Community Deathcaring in Canada for sponsoring 'Pet Home Funerals.'
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
The NHFA empowers families to care for their own dead by providing educational opportunities and connections to resources that promote environmentally sound and culturally nurturing death practices.
Even if you know, you'll learn even more from our friend across the pond, all the way from Oxford, UK. With Claire Turnham of Only With Love and the Home Funeral Network. Thanks to Bellacouche for sponsoring 'Home Funeral 101.'
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsCreating Ceremonies for Home Vigils, Funerals, and MemorialsNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2017-11-21 | In this presentation from the 2017 NHFA conference, funeral celebrant, Kateyanne Unullisi, is joined by deathwalker, Zenith Virago, and author and funeral director, Amy Cunningham, to discuss creating ceremonies for home vigils, funerals, and memorials.
The mission of the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) is to educate individuals, families, and communities about caring for their dead. For more information, visit our website at https://www.homefuneralalliance.org.
FOLLOW US -- Facebook: facebook.com/HomeDeathCare -- Instagram: instagram.com/homefuneralalliance -- Twitter: twitter.com/homefuneralsWhy the NHFA Conference is Life ChangingNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2017-08-01 | Founder of Death Cafe Honolulu, Leilani Maxera, and hospice and palliative nurse Susan Oppie join each other in explaining the life-changing power of the NHFA Conference. Why are these events so important? What can we learn from each other, and give to each other?Sara Williams Explains the NHFA 2017 Silent AuctionNational Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)2017-06-26 | The silent auction is a unique way to take part of the 2017 NHFA Conference home with you, and an important way to keep these conferences running.
The NHFA advocates for preserving the rights of families to care for their own dead while supporting home funeral guides in their calling to guide families when needed.
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