Exploring the contents of Rose’s library of resources has helped me to understand how, when grief is suppressed and left unprocessed, it’s like having the handbrake on. My creativity has been freed up, I’ve gone on to expand my facilitation skills and delivered Rose’s Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Foundation course many times as well as creating new courses of my own and expanding my work, my community and my self- love.

                          – Sundy Gilchrist, Founder of Healing Parents of Estrangement Community, sublimerelatiohships.co.uk

“Working with Rose has been very positive and affirming. I was able to experience a level of intimacy and sharing with others that I haven’t commonly had in other groups. It’s as if we were magically drawn together to shared aspirations and values, as if something far greater was being created. It’s not for the faint hearted but if you’re willing to dive deeply then it’s rewarding. I was able to find a deeper sense of self and how I might take part in the world, and I feel aligned with my soul and open to the mysteries of life. ”

 – Liz Sokoski,  Chair of Art and Soul, an arts charity that supports people with mental health, Film maker and Transformational Coach. Participant in The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, Deep Discovery Conversations, Write Your Way through Grief, The Final Year.

” Rose’s stimulus resources are incredible. She somehow manages to share and build upon her own life experience in highlighting and speaking of the essence of grief, loss and death…the human journey into the dark, the shadow, the unspoken, the unspeakable… in order to enable the reader and the listener to uncover and make sense of their own journey and within that to engage in a healing process. The Grieving for our World aspect is timely, monumental and essential. If we are to face, embrace and act before more time elapses, we need to unearth and face into our pain together, supported by Rose and the other contributors. This is the work of the Soul and in embracing grief we are reclaiming our soul and life purpose, rebirthing ourselves as grounded healers, leaders and Soul guides in these chaotic times.

In The Final Year group, I’ve been with fellow travelers and I’ve loved watching everyone evolve and change. I’ve appreciated the strong container Rose has held and, amidst a full-on year, I’ve learned to let go more, surrender more and ride the waves more, especially in the community in which I live and in relation to my own dying.”

 – Annee Bury, Grieving for Our World, The Final Year

” At the end of The Final Year, I’m in a very different place now to where I was twelve months ago. I am really grateful for this space and for the way we’ve been held and have held each other. I have experienced being loved and supported, regardless of what’s gone on for me, with no judgment and no criticism and always encouragement to be gentle with myself. The transformation has been massive, beyond anything I had imagined. I’ve been able to reconfigure myself. ”

 – Sara Rushworth, Deep Discovery Conversations, The Facilitator’s Training, The Final Year

” I came to Rose’s courses from a place of unexpected loss and on a healing path of reconnection with the sacred universe around and inside me.

The SWDCL Course offered me the opportunity to explore how loss has shaped my life at different stages and how transformation is an integral and natural part of life. Amongst many other enquiries in the course. I’ve explored how I navigate the not-knowing, the aspects of me that I reject, and how I can best experience the Wholeness I yearn for (within me and in my community and the whole of the universe).

When we started The Final Year group last year I was in the grieving process – my mum had died a few months before. I was in contact with my mortality and how I’d been feeling numb and dead for ten years. I was really struggling being here. Now, I have connected with recovery and I am much more alive. I’m taking steps to care for myself in new ways – for instance letting go of rescuing others, learning to say no, being more aware of where I spend my time and with whom. I am getting that sense of belonging here on Earth as I reconnect with my creativity and follow my true passion and curiosity. I’ve created and facilitated two workshops in collaboration with others, and enjoyed a whole month of dancing and performing which led on to other performing projects. I feel more empowered creatively, it’s been wonderful and I am really grateful. ”

I am grateful too for this space, where I am accepted as I am. Sharing with the group has been inspiring and I am balancing service in community with service to my self;  facilitating from a nourished state; giving attention and space to self -care and engaging with service to community from that inner state.

– Sofia Sangue. The SWDCL Foundation Course, The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, Deep Discovery Conversations, The Facilitator’s Training, The Final Year

The best therapy I have ever had – healing, caring, loving, soothing, inspiring. I feel heard and held in a community of deep divers of the mind.

– Bev, The Final Year

“I have seen more clearly how I operate in the world, my thinking is changing, my breadth of understanding is widening exponentially – this is a wonderful journey into the unknown.”

– Elizabeth Kaley, participant in The Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Foundation Course, The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, The Final Year.

When we started The Final Year I was very much in a deep healing process and letting go of what I no longer needed. I was very chaotic, forgetting things that were important to me and having to work hard to stay present. My intention at the beginning was to accept how to be supported and to know how that feels in my body.  There was a time during the year when we were under a lot of stress as a family and Rose and the group supported me to stay with my feelings and allow myself to be vulnerable and seen. I now know how that feels and I can feel the difference in myself. Listening to everyone in the group has given me a huge permission to be who I am in the moment and to feel safe. It has shown me that I don’t have to struggle to reach somewhere. I’m good at holding spaces for other women and I really needed to experience being held. I have so much gratitude.

– Andreja Varga, The Final Year

“ A safe, supportive space and a life raft during a difficult time of transition.”  The Deep Discovery Conversations course was for me a powerful process of rediscovering the real me, observing the limiting beliefs that keep me from an expanded state of being me and then expanding into a conscious reconnection with all of life and engaging in collective creation. It happened in a strong container with others who have a deep love of this beautiful and magical earth. It let me be me and helped me learn to speak more from my soul than from my head.”

Mark Mullis, Artist and Community Activist, Participant in The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, Deep Discovery Conversations, The Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Facilitator’s Training  

“I  enrolled in 5 courses with Rose Diamond’s Sitting With Death and Choosing Life Programmes. They sustained me on a deep level as I lived through some of the toughest times of my life.

The course work is exceptionally generous in its breadth and depth of content. My experience has been one of living a more enlivened and expanded life, and I am happy to say my listening skills and a more optimistic outlook towards my future has grown in strength. In  these rapidly changing times, it is a support knowing there are others willing to grow in community and care.

During the Facilitator Training I was able to contain extraordinary life circumstances which would normally have completely thrown me. The work we had already done together in the Essential Skills course enabled me to surrender to the right timing of the events that unfolded and to let go of judgment. This alerted me to the fact that in a training course such as this, the most important learning is not what you expect. I was able to move through stress, to feel valid and useful, and reach a level of self-acceptance and acceptance of life, as a result of the support I received from Rose and the group. This was beautiful and unusual. The group was an anchor in a stormy sea. My experience has been liberating and fertile. I’m disintegrating and dying to old ways in the cycle of life, death and rebirth, and I’m excited by what’s growing.”
– Janie Nolan,  The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, Deep Discovery Conversations, The Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Facilitator’s Training

“What I have found most helpful is being enabled to consider ‘sacred activism’ as all that I am and all that I bring to the world. This has opened me up to a sense of being of service in both small and bigger ways. Every conversation, every action has a purpose and can open both my heart and others. This is an opportunity to be with others in a safe and beautifully held space, to explore and share deep conversations that lead to new and exciting discoveries and possibilities – about yourself and your role in the world. More awareness of listening and responding back in a helpful way, connecting on a deeper and empathic level; Offering honest and deep insights about myself, my response and reflections for others. Being heard and witnessed by the group has been such a blessing and also huge learning about myself.”

Jackie O’Carroll, The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, The Facilitator’s Training, Deep Discovery Conversations

“Through this course I have witnessed the magic that happens when people share openly – our compassion rises and flows into the other group members and even spills out into ourselves as we resonate with aspects of their experiences. I had a strong resistance to joining the course because I didn’t feel that I had what it takes to support people in this way. But, through the feeling of truly belonging within such a beautifully held group, I have discovered a compassion that I didn’t know I had and have succeeded in being able to put a loving arm around those insecure, not-good-enough parts of myself. This, in turn has freed me to live more fully and offer myself in greater service. Holding my own group as part of my rich learning has been an amazingly enlightening experience. I am a human who feels compassion and that is enough to enable me to do this work. My soul is singing!”

Ele Waters after participating in the first Sitting with Death and Choosing Life course.-

“This is a transformative process which has brought some new revelations and epiphanies. I feel as though the veils have parted, or the fog cleared, in a fuller way than before. It takes courage, ruthless honesty and commitment. If you’re drawn to embarking on this journey, please be prepared to discover things about yourself which you either didn’t know, or didn’t fully allow yourself to acknowledge previously.”

Karen, participant in The Essential Skills for Grieving Well, The SWDCL Facilitator Training, Deep Discovery Conversations.

” Rose provides a comprehensive wealth of thought-provoking material designed to uplift and strengthen you, a timely gift in these often confusing intense times of rapid change. Rose’s passionate conviction in our Soul’s wisdom and her enthusiastic, compassionate and honest presentation skills inspired me with hope, faith and determination to be all that I can be. Highly recommended if you are looking for a supportive discipline consistent with living from your heart and soul.”

Suzi Joy Lever, Voice Trainer and Sound Healer, participant in Build Your Soul Sanctuary

“Rose Diamond has used her experience and skill in Spiritual Development to offer deep and nurturing opportunities for self-care on a soul level. I would recommend this as a comprehensive base for personal development for anyone who is embarking on a spiritual journey or inner work, no matter at which stage they find themselves. A worthwhile investment indeed.”

Jools Williams, Conscious Coaching, participant in Build Your Soul Sanctuary, The Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Foundation Course and the Essential Skills for Grieving Well.