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Unleashing the inner creative children of 📝 and 🎨 to make playful, thoughtful campaigns.

💭 Imagination leads the way

Unashamedly Six infuses campaigns about challenging subjects with empathy, creativity, and a fresh perspective. Our projects include:
• The Great Last Impression, an end-of-life campaign aimed at increasing the uptake of advance care plans and documentation in Australia
• Flip the Script, enabling dying at a community level without the reliance on family support
• Freelance Jungle, an award-winn

ing community designed to remind freelancers stress has a productivity cost

In 2024, we return with After You’re Gone, an exploration of grief and coping from both the dying person's and the family's perspective. Unashamedly Six is the unleashing of the inner (creative marketing campaigns) children of Six Onions Design and Unashamedly Creative. Our collaboration focuses on handpicked projects that seek to defy the norms of Australian marketing, design, content development, and community building. Our approach puts experimentation, creativity and curiosity back into campaign work where it belongs. By incorporating evidence-based approaches, trauma-informed techniques, and counselling principles, we enhance our ability to connect with the audience, even on the most challenging days. Why hire us? Our dynamic team comprises Rebekah, the Creative Director for Strategy & Community, and Jessica, the Creative Director for Design & Illustration. Our collaboration seamlessly fuses art and copy, resulting in campaigns that consistently deliver remarkable outcomes. We’re deeply committed to reimagining how we interact with people in the realms of health, mental well-being, and end-of-life assistance with empowerment, self-direction, and self-discovery at the centre of planning. And by giving a little whimsy, humour, pop culture, nostalgia and art in the storytelling. Contact us today for tailored content, marketing, design and strategy support on end-of-life, health, mental health, and other intriguing topics! Why Unashamedly Six?
• When we’re six, we learn by doing.
• We let our imagination lead the way.
• The world is one delightfully curious event after another.
• Every place is ours to explore.
• Every person, the opportunity to make a new friend. It’s time to be Unashamedly Six again.

17/11/2024

This afternoon sees UnashamedlySix ride again at the always amazing Lifting the Lid festival, an international festival over three days on death and dying.

At 6pm Sydney time, Jessica Harkins and I are tackling what happens after you're gone.

Part reminder for planning well for end-of-life stages, part exploration of what we risk hiding away from the grieving process, and full of practical questions and considerations for you to consider, the team from U6 want you to design a good death by considering what it is like for everyone else after you're gone.

The proper spiel:

We all want comfort after a loved one dies. The trouble is, that special brand of comfort has often left with the person we loved.

Unashamedly Six (Rebekah Lambert and Jessica Harkins in their other guise outside the Freelance Jungle) invites you to get ready to be that source of comfort for your grieving loved ones by creatively preparing ahead. This session will inspire and help you create the ideas, capture the stories, and provide the comforting touchstones the people you care about will thank you for after you’re gone.

Who are Unashamedly Six?
A creative partnership between Creative Director and designer, Jessica Harkins, and Conceptual Director and writer, Rebekah Lambert, Unashamedly Six create campaigns to help educate people about all kinds of issues, particularly in end-of-life.

Find out more about their death literacy work via: https://agooddeath.com.au/

Tune into Lifting the Lid https://www.tickettailor.com/events/liftingthelid/1372437

05/11/2024

Western Sydney and Blue Mountains friends.

Tender Funerals Illawarra - A Community Undertaking are looking at launching a chapter in Western Sydney, which I think is absolutely amazing.

You may have heard about Tender from the amazing Australian Story episode. They provide something unique in the Australian funeral space with NFP funerals that are inclusive, customised, affordable, and community-led.

We need this so we can say goodbye to our loved ones in a way that reflects them without having potentially predatory companies upsell us at our lowest moments. For example, the same coffin at Tender can be 600% more in price at a chain funeral home.

If you are in Western Sydney or Blue Mountains, please take the time to answer this quick survey.

They need responses as soon as possible - the deadline is the 8th of November, 2024.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSestsHM9P31awfF7ZjY2qwbNqnEguXWDB8bx-p5vO052eJeGQ/viewform

Please feel free to CUT and PASTE this post to share with your networks.

23/08/2024

Do you hire freelancers?

I'm working on a project that needs your input via this survey!

The survey results will help us to get a handle on the challenges workplaces face, and the ideal dream is to create a working model/standard that clients use going forward.

Use the QR CODE or the link in the first comment below 👇

Thank you! Please share it far and wide.

14/06/2024

As we kick off another campaign, we want to hear from you.

What would you like the people you love to know after you're gone?

16/03/2024

Great stuff from chatting to

"You look at our capitalist society and people who are so enthralled with themselves and their own stories because they're afraid to die. They're afraid to stop expanding and need to p**s on every bush that they walk by. You know what I mean? You don't need to expand, you don't need to become Walmart. You don't need to do that in order to be successful. You don't need to walk on others. You need to walk next to them to have a satisfying life."

How do we know Boniver might be onto something?

1. Look at the way extremely wealthy people talk about death and dying, especially in their pursuit of technology and techniques to cancel death.

2. Reflect on how much of our machine mind confuses productivity and crossing things off as a means of proving that a life has meaning. And how it often neglects core pillars like family, socialisation, mental health, health, rest and self-care in the process.

3. Humans love a good distraction when they don't want to face hard truths and complex situations. Anything we don't want to examine is so much easier when we procrastinate. And just as we procrastinate with other tasks when we want to avoid aspects of work, so too do we procrastinate with work when facing issues within living.

Thoughts?

Image: a screen shot of the Bon Iver quote with "afraid to die" circled.

22/01/2024

Your Flipping the Script presenters

Unashamedly Six is the unleashing of the inner (creative marketing campaigns) children of Six Onions Design and Unashamedly Creative. We come together for select projects that are looking to challenge the standard conventions of Australian marketing, design, content, and community. Our approach puts experimentation, creativity and curiosity back into campaign work where it belongs.

Our aim is to build you the campaigns, digital spaces, community-facing content, and social media experiences the others won’t.

Find out more about Unashamedly Six via our bio.

21/01/2024

Where to next?

Head to the A Good Death website and start with the Great Last Impression Booklet
Create your guest list
Nominate your village
Define the care you want with a care tree
Treat it like a project
Embrace art therapy, recording voices, and creating histories
Talk About Death - embrace it instead of pushing it away
Flip the Script on death today!

Image: black splash with written content featured above.

20/01/2024

That means we can rewrite the story and…

Support each other more
Grieve well
Be there for total strangers
Be less afraid
Find belonging

Image: a hand reaches down to a figure standing on the edge of a film clapper.

19/01/2024

Our approach to end-of-life and death is influenced by…

Our cultural and spiritual beliefs
What we believe happens after we die
Our pain threshold and tolerance for sickness and discomfort
Our attitudes towards disability, chronic illness, and death
Our approach to stress, grief, or mental health
How we view medication, medical intervention, and the prolonging of life
Our version of quality of life in relation to autonomy, choice, and experience
Financial, familial, and functional constraints
What our version of a good death looks like

Anything else you'd add?

Image: flowers in bloom in a field

18/01/2024

Saying goodbye on your terms

Making death as individual as you are might look like:
A five-drink minimum for my wake
Tell my worst stories – with a laugh
Only wear orange
“Burn baby burn, disco inferno” playing at the crematorium
A big musician’s jam
Give a day to the cat home
Plant me as a tree so dogs will visit me
A giant footy match
Turn me into firecrackers and fire me at the sky

Or it doesn't have to be as out there as any of this.

It simply needs to reflect you!

Image: a child in a puffer jacket runs down the road pushing a fish in a sphere.

17/01/2024

Inspiration for remembering people well...

In Mexico, Dia de los Mu***os is a time for families to come together and honour their deceased loved ones. Altars are adorned with photographs, favourite foods, and marigold flowers. It is a colourful and joyous celebration that honours the deceased.
In Ireland, during an Irish wake, loved ones gather to pay their respects and share stories about the departed. The atmosphere is alive with storytelling, music, and an occasional touch of humour. It's a way to honour and remember the person's life while offering comfort to the grieving family.
The Toraja people in Indonesia are famous for their intricate and prolonged funeral rituals, known as Tana Toraja Funeral Rites. These can involve the deceased being kept in the home for a long period, as well as the slaughter of water buffalo to accompany the deceased to the afterlife.
In New Orleans, jazz funerals fill the streets with lively music and vibrant colours as a unique way to celebrate the lives of the deceased. A brass band leads a procession from the funeral service to the cemetery, playing mournful dirges and later transitioning to upbeat, celebratory music.
In certain regions of Germany, a "Totenpass" serves as a written testament to the deceased's life and is commonly laid to rest alongside them. It serves to remember the person and all they achieved.
Grave Diggers' Dinner: In some parts of Scotland, there is a tradition of the "grave diggers' dinner." After a burial, the gravediggers and mourners might gather for a meal, often featuring traditional Scottish dishes.
As part of Hogmanay, the Scottish New Year's Eve celebration, people in Scotland engage in customs that prompt them to contemplate the past and the transient nature of time. People may make toasts to remember loved ones who have died and perform "first-footing," where the first person to enter a home after midnight brings gifts and good luck.

16/01/2024

Encouraging conversation by…Memorialising

Honour the dead and dying with:
Gardens and plants
Creative projects
Books, scripts and poetry
Taking up their hobby or interest
Installing a plaque or piece of furniture in a public place
Make a playlist of their favourite songs
Watching their favourite films
Compiling a memory book or box
Making quilts from their clothes
Creating a memorial space in the digital realm
Building a memorial or shrine
Lighting candles
Performing rituals
Releasing lanterns or boats on the water
Giving and donating in their name
Eating their favourite food or at their favourite restaurant on significant days
Writing letters to the departed
Observing remembrance days
Toasting them at special occasions
Leaving a glass or place at the table
Talking to them when we miss them
Murals, street art and memorial walls
Advocacy, not-for-profit and charity work
Awards and prizes
Grants and bequeaths

15/01/2024

Supporting each other (and yourselves) through end-of-life and grief

Avoid or challenge negative coping strategies like:
Avoidance
Substance Abuse
Emotional Suppression
Self-Harm
Denial
Escapism
Isolation
Aggression
Self-Criticism

With positive coping strategies like:
Therapy, support groups, talking with friends
Art therapy, making music, AA meetings
Creative expression, journaling, self-help
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Grounding exercises, art therapy, companionship
Spending time with friends and community
Anger management classes, sport, exercise
Self-compassion and positive self-talk

And notice the difference!

14/01/2024

Make planning end-of-life support using SWOT.

A SWOT analysis assesses Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. When used to help someone with end-of-life or traumatic grief, it can pinpoint strengths and opportunities in their support system, while also acknowledging potential weaknesses and threats to their emotional wellbeing, allowing for a more complete approach to care.

Attached is an example for supporting George, a LGBTQIA+ woman who has stage IV cancer, to stay at home as long as possible.

Strengths:
Adequate funds for care expenses.
Extensive and supportive network from years of community activism.
Manageable symptoms despite cancer, except during chemo.
Positive and pragmatic attitude.

Weaknesses:
Limited availability of specialized LGBTQIA+ in-home care support locally.
Lack of personal transportation for numerous medical appointments.
Dependency on assistance during and after chemotherapy sessions.
Decreased interest in cooking and eating, posing a risk of malnutrition.

Opportunities:
Spare room available for potential live-in assistance as George's needs increase.
Proximity to a university with nursing students who could provide care.
Support from George's ex-girlfriend, offering the café's kitchen and freezer for meal preparation parties with potential crowdfunding for ingredients.

Threats:

Interference from religious parents may impact George's Q***r relationships, and her difficulty in saying no poses a challenge.
Establishing boundaries with George's parents is crucial for the person overseeing her care.
The abundance of supporters requires a strong coordinator to manage and coordinate all aspects effectively.

13/01/2024

Examples of end-of-life based questions you may ask to establish a Care Tree.

Do they need help with cooking, bathing etc?
What are their treatment cycles and how does that influence their ability to complete tasks, their appetite and general wellbeing mentally and physically?
How long can they live at home with and without support services?
When are their medical appointments and do they need company?
What times of day, week or month are harder physically, emotionally and mentally?

12/01/2024

Care Tree questions you may need to consider when dealing with someone struggling with a traumatic loss:

Do they need help with death administration?
Are there times when the death attracts more attention? E.g. news cycles, court dates, anniversaries, etc
Do their pre-existing addictions, history of self-harm or suicidal tendencies, or mental health conditions put them at a higher risk?
What sorts of practical help can you offer?
Are there activities and events planned to help with the grieving process?
How can we support people in coping with their loss, whether in person or virtually?

11/01/2024

General Care Tree questions:

What does providing care look like to you?
How do you support the caregivers as they care?
What functional care is required? (e.g. cleanliness, nutrition, pain management, environmental comfort etc)
What sorts of mental health support is required?
What is your care-related budget?
What local resources do you have access to?
What resources are available online?
What other supports are available?

10/01/2024

How to make sure a Care Tree stays functional:

Update and maintain your care tree
Consider your tools – Excel versus project software, comms etc
Share and communicate
Consider privacy and consent
Seek professional guidance
Make it fun

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