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 Josh died when I was 16. My mum died when I was 26.

I'm not going to tell you I've healed from either of those deaths. What I will tell you is that learning to get comfortable with death - really comfortable - changed everything about how I live.

When I stopped trying to outrun my grief and started learning how to carry it, something opened up. My life became fuller. Richer. More honest. Not in spite of death, but because I finally stopped pretending it wasn't part of life.

That's what nobody tells you. That the people who are most at peace with death are often the ones living the most fully. That grief, when you understand it, doesn't diminish your life, it deepens it.

I spent years doing the hard work of understanding that for myself. I researched death literacy, completed a Diploma of Counselling, and presented this work at international conferences. But the real shift wasn't academic. It was the moment I stopped treating death as something to survive and started letting it teach me how to live.

LightsOut exists because that shift is available to everyone.

This is about living a full and beautiful life. Death is part of that. Grief is part of that. And the more honest we get about both, the more alive we actually become.

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 get go. 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.