Beth O’Brien Founder
After three decades of studying, researching, and working closely with individuals experiencing loss, grief, and bereavement, I found a deep and enduring calling to support others through these challenging moments.
Eight years ago, I became a Certified Thanatologist – “Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement”. This is an international accreditation with The Association for Death Education and Counseling.
From 2002 to 2024, I owned Australian Celebrations Training, a registered training organization that prepared individuals to become marriage and funeral celebrants. During this time, my understanding of grief and bereavement deepened significantly, inspiring me to explore and study this profound human experience further.
In my work as a marriage and funeral celebrant, I have supported people during some of the most significant and memorable moments of their lives—both joyful and heart-wrenching
I always imagined that there were no set stages to how a person travels through their individual experience of grief. But one thing that remained common as an experience was that as a person you have changed, and you can’t ever go back to the previous version of yourself, after loss and grief. I then began to see that through people’s loss, their also became some gain.
People seemed to have the ability to become more than they were, because of their pain and wisdom. A renewed version of themselves. Sometimes something unexpected is born. From this locus, I began thinking that grief moves and changes like seasons. I saw summer as growth, autumn as change, winter as loss, spring as renewal. The images of trees have always appealed to me.
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