The Ceremony Exchange

Amy Firth (Class of 2016), interfaith minister and independent funeral director in the Blue Mountains, Australia, has launched The Ceremony Exchange: nine months of creative practice for funeral ceremony makers.

It’s a new online creative studio for interfaith ministers, funeral celebrants, funeral directors, death doulas and anyone who creates ceremony around death and loss. The idea is simple: a place to practise creating funerals, share ideas with each other and think beyond the traditional funeral format.

The Ceremony Exchange is hosted on Skool and enrolment opens in November 2026 with our first Ceremony Exchange kicking off January 2027.

Each month you’ll be given a fictional funeral scenario to work with, alongside teaching, practical examples and the chance to share your own ideas with other ceremony makers. The scenarios explore how different lives, deaths, circumstances and family dynamics call for different approaches. A sudden death, for example, asks something very different of us than a death that has been anticipated for years.

The aim isn’t to find one right way of doing things. It’s to explore the possibilities, learn from each other and grow in confidence with the creative decisions we make every day. As Amy says, we so rarely get the chance to practise this work without a bereaved family in front of us.

Amy has spent more than a decade as a funeral director, celebrant, ceremony designer and death literacy educator. She’s also the founder of The Visible Death Worker, a global community for people bringing heart to death, dying, ceremony and grief, and shares free death literacy education and ceremony inspiration with more than 80,000 people across social media.

If funeral work is part of your ministry, or you feel drawn to it, this is well worth a look.

The Ceremony Exchange is hosted on Skool and enrolment opens in November 2026 with our first Ceremony Exchange kicking off January 2027. Come as you are. Bring your curiosity, your experience, your questions and your willingness to imagine something different.

All the details: www.amyfirth.com/exchange