22/03/2024
Key note speaker journalist, audio producer, author Lisa Herbert's session explored how she created her colourful workbook and guide, The Bottom Drawer Book: The After Death Action Plan as a tool to help the bereaved.
Lisa mentioned the importance of cemeteries as the keepers of our history, and how it's possible to learn about a community just by looking around. She asked, "What do cemeteries say about your town?".
She discussed ways cemeteries can become more involved with promoting death awareness, using Iona College's youth engagement program at Hemmant Cemetery in Brisbane as an example. She also mentioned joining existing death awareness movements such as Death Cafes and Dying to Know Day.
Lisa draws on her 25 years of experience working in the broadcast media (ABC, Seven and Nine Networks, Nova) to communicate facts and quirks about death and funerals in a non-confrontational way in both her book and her social media channels.
