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March 24/25th 2026
Vacancies: Yes
Coordinaror: Joanna Mutlow
Phone:07872 523610

Email Jo Mutlow

Venue: Shirley House

Jo devised this course on the back of her pastoral care (aka chaplaincy) role in hospital and her work as a Humanist Funeral Celebrant. 

She sees how many people are unprepared for their last chapters and the stress that this can cause for them and those left behind. 

This participatory and engaging short course runs over two consecutive afternoons and starts by helping you consider your life and legacy; recognise its themes and sequence. 

This leads us to a consideration of what you might like to put in place to safeguard your interests and preferences should you have a change of fortune. 

We then go on to identify what could do with tidying up, or being explained, and how to make it easier for others when you are no longer here. 

Lastly we think about options for funerals and final ceremonies and how choices might be made. 

The course is for people who want to be more informed and to be given a nudge to get organised - this is the place where you can talk about the inevitability of your death without getting tangled in other people's emotions. 

You will get ideas about how to get your affairs in order, refresh your instructions, and initiate conversations with others to establish shared understandings. 

This is not a grim or glum course - there is humour, insight and pragmatism and we inevitably experience how everyone is taking their own individual path and formulated their own intentions to tidy up their loose ends.

Thank you for your interest in my U3A course which has run three times now and has the following feedbacks:

• The course content was thorough and practical and extremely useful. I'm much better prepared now.
• This has been very useful indeed but also triggering in a way I hadn't anticipated.
• I found the course educational and useful. I would recommend it
• Very useful to get some much information and have a chance to shared ideas in a very caring environment
• Very good practical things to do. I had not thought about how I needed to get other people involved before.
• Nice to feel practical and positive
• Very helpful guidance and discussion, thinking through new ideas, practicalities and options in preparation for what happens when I die
• Very thought provoking - given me a lot to think about but hopefully it will focus my mind on things I have been worrying about for a long time.
• Useful to make me face up to make decisions which are within my choice. My children will certainly appreciate that I will now make suggestions and help them by leaving things tidy.  I am going to talk about if I lose capacity with them.
• Excellent - very informative, friendly discussions.
• I have learned so much!
• Thanks you for the lovely life affirming way that you presented this essential course
• This has given me confidence to get organized