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Eulogies: How to Craft and Deliver Memorable Farewells
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Eulogies: How to Craft and Deliver Memorable Farewells

Practical advice on how to prepare your script and yourself to deliver an eulogy your audience will celebrate for years.
Created byNicholas Whittall
Last updated 4/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Students have confidence they can craft and deliver a memorable eulogy.
  • Students know how to craft a memorable eulogy.
  • Students know how to deliver a memorable eulogy.
  • Having delivered their eulogies, students will have touched deeply the hearts of their hearers
  • Having delivered their eulogies, students will be pleased they have done this.

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Introduction8:03

    Nicholas first introduces himself and then outlines how he intends to enable you to craft and deliver an eulogy that is a memorable farewell.  He then encourages you that you can do this.

  • Gather your information17:23

    There is perhaps nothing more intimidating to a speaker than a blank sheet of paper.  Even if the speaker knows that from it will emerge words that will move the hearts of his/her hearers, (s)he knows that what may appear efforless in delivery is the result of hard work gathering and sifting information before offering it to the alchemy that turns it into oratory.  Nicholas presents the types of information the student may consider collecting, the people the student may consider asking and interviewing, and a structure into which to pour the information.

  • Organise your information6:51

    Nicholas shows how to organise the information to identify the most significant elements in the life of the person being commemorated.  These may include events, achievements, relationships, shared memories, and legacy.  These suggest the main themes around which to craft the eulogy.  Nicholas provides a mindmap that the student may use to organise the information ready to craft the eulogy.

  • Craft your eulogy16:03

    Nicholas shows how to craft the eulogy around the themes that emerged in the previous stage, and how to set the eulogy into the context of the commemoration event.

  • Prepare yourself8:31

    You are likely to have to deliver an eulogy in an unfamiliar setting, among unfamiliar people, as part of an unfamiliar occasion, while being vulnerable to unfamiliar emotions.  Nicholas shows how to prepare physically, mentally, and emotionally to give your best.

  • Deliver your eulogy7:46

    For many speakers, the eulogy is their first experience of public speaking.  Whilst a first speech is daunting enough, the one who delivers an eulogy is also a participant in the commemoration of the person who has died.  Nicholas offers the key "do's and don'ts" that clear the way for the eulogy to be heard and appreciated.

  • Celebrate4:14

    Nicholas addresses the mix of emotions that may overwhelm the speaker once the eulogy has been delivered.

  • Pitfalls to avoid4:26

    Nicholas addresses the factors that can undermine a good eulogy.  Avoiding these makes a good eulogy a great one.

  • Last word2:21

    Nicholas offers some further encouragement to the student to take on this precious responsibility.

Requirements

  • No previous knowledge or tools are required.

Description

Honouring the memory of a loved one who has died is one of life’s privileges. To weave the threads of a human life into a tapestry of images that form in the minds of our hearers and so give their mind’s eye one last glimpse of the one they honour can be at the same time humbling and immensely rewarding.

An eulogy - or "good word" - is an event much more than it is a speech. It is a shared moment in which mourners gather around pictures painted by the words the speaker utters, and the emotions the speaker conveys, so that they may linger in their personal and shared remembering of the one who has died.

This course offers immediate practical advice to people who find themselves, perhaps unexpectedly, preparing to deliver the “good word”. It draws on the author’s experience in speaking at funerals of friends and family members, and as the minister of a London church. It shows how to gather the raw material, how to organise it, how to craft it into an eulogy, and then how to prepare and deliver the eulogy so that it engages the minds and emotions of those who hear it.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who has been asked to deliver an eulogy.
  • Anyone who expects to be asked to deliver an eulogy.
  • Anyone interested in knowing how to craft and deliver an eulogy.

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