About LightsOut.

LightsOut is a grief education social enterprise that teaches young adults how to navigate death and grief - before they're in crisis mode.

We're here because grief support shouldn't be something you only access when you're already drowning. Death is inevitable, yet most of us reach adulthood with zero skills to handle it. That's a problem.

Founded by Bianca Becker after her brother and mum died, LightsOut emerged from a simple frustration: the grief resources out there weren't built for young people. So Bianca created what she needed - a platform that treats grief as a transferable life skill, not just something to survive.

What makes us different:

• We start with your strengths, not your pain
• We teach evidence-based tools grounded in positive psychology and death literacy research
• We combine lived experience with academic rigor (because both matter)
• We're a social enterprise - every dollar goes back into expanding access and impact

While our primary focus is young adults (16-30), LightsOut serves anyone ready to build their grief literacy - individuals, schools, workplaces, and communities. 

We're leading conversations about death that society has avoided for too long.

Our approach aligns with public health strategies that empower people to take charge of their mental health and wellbeing. Because when you understand death, you live better.

The goal? To make death an accepted and discussed part of life, where grief is embraced and understood - not feared and avoided.

Bianca Becker - Founder & CEO, LightsOut

My brother died when I was 16, and my mum died when I was 26. Both times I felt completely unprepared. The grief resources out there? They weren't made for young people like me.

So I worked hard on my grief trauma, researched grief and death literacy extensively, and now hold a Diploma of Counselling. I built up a comprehensive understanding of grief education, which helped me create what I needed: LightsOut.

It's a grief education platform that empowers individuals - especially young adults (16-30) - to navigate grief before they're in crisis mode, because grief is a life skill, not just something to survive.

After crowd-funding through LiftWomen and a successful pilot program, LightsOut launched globally as a social enterprise. As an emerging grief coach, I'm building a new approach to death literacy while still working as a hairstylist, with every dollar from LightsOut going back into the platform to expand access and impact.

I've also created a School Curriculum for senior students, because death literacy should be taught alongside maths and science. My goal? To make death something we actually talk about, to give people real tools for grief, and to prove that understanding death helps us live better.

LightsOut is about building resilience, finding meaning, and living fully - even when life gets impossibly hard.

  Robyn Minty is the Director for LightsOut and is an experienced Public Health Professional with more than forty years working in health, social services, and education settings.

Robyn developed educational materials and taught health promotion, including grief, in schools. She is a casual academic, and recently authored Policy 101; Policy Practice Transformed; a technical manual for policy workers in the field. 

As the Director, ‘herstory’ of grief as a young person has fostered her interest in grief education from the gecko. She is advising and guiding research and educational materials and joins Bianca with her pledge to inform young people about death and grief, making grief easier.