Hi I'm Robynne, I’m a certified grief educator, writer, public speaker and consultant.
The Stillness Room is a space I’ve created to explore the nature of grief and what it is to be human.
It’s a search for meaning through philosophy, literature, poetry, writing, music, contemplation and connection. It’s a journey into the awe and beauty that lies at the heart of our suffering. It’s a space I’ve come to know well.
In 1985, when I was 19, my parents and brother died in a boating accident on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, Australia. It is the experience around which the rest of my life revolves. For many years I kept my grief buried and silent under social norms and desire to belong in a world that often seems intolerant of—or oblivious to—grief. I eventually learned to philosophise my loss and thought my grieving done.
Then, in my early 50s—a time of reckoning for many of us—my cultivated façade disintegrated to expose a untended grief that had lain curled in on itself for years. I had nowhere to go but into my pain. And this led to the writing of a book—Between Two Waves—that explores my story, together with many others’, and the nature of grief and healing.
I created The Stillness Room to welcome others into a safe space to explore their own stories.
In my other life, I work with business leaders, delivering strategy and leadership retreats, advice and mentorship.
