"As strangers we shared in such an intimate, sacred and terrifyingly beautiful event. You held the space with us and you held my daughter for me"
“Today was perfect, it was so right, stripped down to basics, yet so powerful and emotional. Your opening words were so special and framed the day, it is an amazing skill to have. Thank you Claire and Ru, for being our best friends for ten days, for going beyond the call of duty, for your punk attitude, for giving so much of your time, for listening so attentively, your honesty and objectivity and for facilitating the perfect goodbye. If I had unlimited resources I couldn’t have chosen any better setting or would have done anything differently.”
“Again, thank you so much for everything, your support, good judgement, sympathy and humour. Without you, we would have been all at sea, tossed about by grief plus worries about ‘getting it right.’ You helped us to stay focused and have faith in our decisions. It’s inspiring to have met you and to have experienced your ability to facilitate and nurture in this most sad of times. We feel lucky to have found you.”
“ With your kindness, respect, professionalism and comforting advice, I was able to organise a dignified yet intimate goodbye for my dad with a strength he would have been proud of.”
"To be honest, the enclosed cannot even begin to cover what you did for us. Easing us through the process of planning mum’s funeral with grace was truly priceless."
“ You made the whole process quite beautiful from the moment we arrived in that glorious location which is your office/ chapel of rest, to the service last week which did not feel like a funeral at all but a ' rising up' a feeling of ascending into an altogether higher state of being - a joyful experience - thank you you're providing such a very special service to people- special because of the love you give to all you do and that love works it's miricles - makes the crooked place straight.....”
“Again, thank you so much for everything, your support, good judgement, sympathy and humour. Without you, we would have been all at sea, tossed about by grief plus worries about ‘getting it right.’ You helped us to stay focused and have faith in our decisions. It’s inspiring to have met you and to have experienced your ability to facilitate and nurture in this most sad of times. We feel lucky to have found you.”
“ With your kindness, respect, professionalism and comforting advice, I was able to organise a dignified yet intimate goodbye for my dad with a strength he would have been proud of.”
“I couldn’t have wished for better people to help create a funeral that my wife would have wanted. Joy did not want a religious funeral and had expressed a wish to be buried in a wood that we had planted on our land. Rupert and Claire worked with me and my wife’s parents, who are religious, and we achieved a funeral that was informal, moving, participatory and meaningful. Joy’s parents think the funeral was as ‘wonderful’ as such an occasion can be.”
“ And so our experience of having to do the worst nightmare any parent could ever contemplate, was made safe and precious.”
