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Experience Design of Funerals

MASTERCLASS WITH AMY FIRTH

Coming late 2026

Most of us have only ever seen one kind of funeral.
Rows of chairs. A familiar script. A handful of songs. A eulogy. A wake.
But what if a funeral could be designed instead of simply arranged?
What if every decision - from the venue to the music, the rituals to the way people are invited to participate
was shaped around one question: Who was this person, really?

This is Experience Design Of Funerals.

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The first intake of The Experience Design of Funerals opens later in 2026.

Join the waitlist to be the first to hear when enrolments open, receive behind-the-scenes updates as the course is created, and access early-bird bonuses available only to waitlist members.

I'd love to have you there.

WHO IT’S FOR?

This masterclass is for anyone and everyone. Whether you're a celebrant, funeral director, death doula, minister, end-of-life worker, or someone who simply wants to create a meaningful farewell for yourself or the people you love, this course will give you the tools, confidence and creative framework to move beyond the traditional funeral template.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Together we'll explore:

  • How to think like a ceremony designer, not just a funeral arranger

  • Choosing spaces that tell a story before anyone speaks

  • Using ritual, music, symbolism and participation with intention

  • Creating ceremonies that genuinely hold grief, love and community

  • Moving beyond "personal touches" to ceremonies built entirely around the person

  • Practical tools, frameworks and real-life examples you can adapt again and again

WHY THIS EXISTS

I've spent over a decade designing ceremonies across the UK and Australia - funerals, weddings, namings, memorials of every shape. What I've learned, again and again, is that the ceremonies people remember as truly meaningful share a particular kind of thinking behind them. Not luck. Not a naturally creative family. A way of approaching space, presence and participation that can be named, taught and applied.

The Experience Design of Funerals Masterclass is where I teach that thinking.

MEET YOUR GUIDE: ABOUT AMY

Amy Firth is an Interfaith Minister, funeral director, celebrant, Justice of the Peace and ceremony designer based in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Amy trained as an Interfaith Minister with the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where she was ordained in 2016, and spent four years studying at the London Buddhist Centre as a Triratna Mitra. She holds a BA in Communications, majoring in theatre and media, from Charles Sturt University. Before working in death care, she spent a decade in marketing and communications alongside a career as a singer-songwriter.

For the past decade, Amy’s ministry has focused on ceremony and transitions, supporting hundreds of families through death and grief. She designs ceremonies for funerals, weddings and life transitions including divorce, miscarriage and renaming, with a focus on informed, unhurried care and helping families understand the choices available to them.

Amy hosts the monthly Blue Mountains Death Café at RoseyRavelston Books in Lawson, a free gathering where anyone can talk openly about death, grief and what it means to live well. She also runs Grief In Motion, a series of creative grief workshops. In 2026, she founded The Visible Deathworker, a community and education platform for funeral directors, celebrants, death doulas and end-of-life professionals, focused on communicating their work with confidence, integrity and compassion.

Amy shares death literacy content across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook and through her monthly ‘Love Letter From Your Funeral Director’ newsletter. Learn more at amyfirth.com/about

IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, START HERE:

Want to jump in now?

My guide, Funerals Reimagined: A Guide to Creating Meaningful Ceremonies, is a good place to begin.

For $27 AUD, it's a short, practical companion for anyone rethinking what a funeral could be, whether you're planning one for someone you love or just starting to imagine there might be another way…

Read it here, then come back when you're ready to go deeper.