Lama Gelongma Zangmo has spent many years in retreat and in service to others through her work at Kagyu Samye Dzong London. Drawing on the Buddhist teachings she has received and practised for much of her life, she will join Embracing Death and Dying Day to share reflections on how the Buddhist tradition approaches death and dying. Lama Zangmo will explore how contemplating impermanence can help us meet death with greater acceptance, and inspire us to live with more awareness, kindness, and meaning.

Charlie Morley is an international teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow work and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. He is also a bestselling Hay House author, two times TED speaker and Mindvalley lucid dreaming coach. Charlie has been part of the Samye Dzong London Bardo Group which formed in 2006.

Poppy's is a funeral director, based in London, with a fresh approach to funerals. Instead of following rigid traditions, we listen to what you want and need. Instead of hiding behind closed doors, we’re open about how we care for the living and the dead. Poppy’s is also proud to be a certified B Corp, putting care for people and the planet at the heart of the business.

Dr Gabb is a NIHR Doctoral Fellow undertaking a PhD looking at priorities towards the end of life for people with dementia, supervised by Prof Katherine Sleeman and Prof Catherine Evans at the Cicely Saunders Institute, and Dr Gareth Owen at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience. This is a sequential mixed methods study involving photo-elicitation and a discrete choice experiment. My previous research has been in Alzheimer’s dementia and Psycho-Oncology. Dr Gabb has a clinical background as a Specialty Registrar Doctor in Palliative Medicine with an interest in end-of-life care for those at the intersection of physical and mental ill-health.

During the last 25 years, Lizzie has listened to many grieving people, from all walks of life; different countries, backgrounds, educations, ethnicity's and faiths. Yet her discovery is that taking all of that into account, most people want to talk about the same themes of grief that affect them. Lizzie will guide us through those themes, looking at what can help, and just as importantly, what doesn’t!  We can’t change what has happened, but we can shift our perspective by putting practical support and ideas in place.