{"id":233,"date":"2023-09-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-07-04T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:12:51","slug":"companion-voices-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Singing with Companion Voices UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><strong>Honoring Life and Death at the Mid-England Barrow in <strong>Warwickshire<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62-1568x1021.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb356048-04f8-4be9-bedb-0600c6300e62.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" data-id=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57-1568x1090.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9acbb6ac-bc1f-4128-bfaf-25fca1264a57.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/davancideathdoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/singing-at-the-barrow.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What a beautiful memory of my year 2023 in the UK\ud83d\ude07!<br><br>On that September day, we gathered in a special place with wonderful colleagues from the Heart of England Companion Voices group, along with other groups from the region. <strong>Companion Voices UK was my epiphany for 2023<\/strong> as it combines two of my passions, singing\ud83c\udfb6 and companionship at the end of life\ud83d\udc65\ud83e\udd40\ud83c\udf1f.<br><br>I love everything about this project founded by Judith Silver: the repertoire of songs, the ethics, the goals and visions (singing at the bedside of the dying) and most of all: the community, the incredible people it brings together\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\udc9c\ud83c\udf38. Check out the links in the comments and a short report I wrote for last autumn&#8217;s newsletter\u270d\ufe0f.<br><br>I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for these magical musical and human encounters and for the warm welcome I received. I hope we&#8217;ll meet again soon\ud83d\ude0d!<br><br>Thanks also to Marie for the video clip and Sarah Smart for the photos. The place where we sang that day was The Mid-England Barrow, a memorial garden in the heart of nature where you can lay the ashes of your deceased loved ones\ud83c\udf3f\u26b1\ufe0f\ud83c\udf3f.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companionvoices.org\">www.companionvoices.org<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-englandbarrow.co.uk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.mid-englandbarrow.co.uk\">www.mid-englandbarrow.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring Life and Death at the Mid-England Barrow in Warwickshire What a beautiful memory of my year 2023 in the UK\ud83d\ude07! 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