Most of us reach adulthood never having had a single honest conversation about death.
Then someone dies, and we have no idea what to do. What to feel. What to say. How to keep going.
The Program exists to change that. Not by telling you how to grieve, but by giving you the knowledge, the language, and the tools to understand what's happening - before you're in the middle of it, or right when you need it most.
Ten self-led online modules. Evidence-based. Built from lived experience.
Designed to help you get comfortable with death so you can live a fuller, more honest life.
Because the people who understand death aren't the ones who are afraid of living. They're the ones who do it most completely.

We start where you already are. This module explores your personal strengths and how they shape the way you experience and move with grief. You'll identify your top four strengths and understand how to use them, because you already have more than you think.
60 minutes

Before we can talk about death honestly, we need to know where we stand with it. This module explores the four main belief systems around death, your own relationship with it, and how grief has already touched your life, whether you've named it that way or not.
40 minutes

Grief is not one feeling. It's many, often at the same time, often contradictory. This module gives you the language to name what you're actually experiencing and the permission to feel all of it without judgment.
45 minutes

Grief isn't just something that happens to you. It's something you participate in. This module explores what active, engaged grieving actually looks like, and why showing up for your grief changes everything about how you carry it.
30 minutes

Some of the most honest reflections on life come from people who are closest to death. This module draws on the wisdom of people living with terminal illness and those who have experienced profound loss, and what they'd tell you about how to live.
40 minutes

Empathy is not the same as sympathy and the difference matters enormously in grief. This module explores what empathy actually is, how it changes the way we understand ourselves and others, and how to practise it in real, practical ways.
40 minutes

There is no right way to grieve. This module explores the many ways grief shows up across different people, relationships, and experiences, so you can stop measuring your grief against anyone else's and start understanding your own.
40 minutes

Most people want to show up for someone who is grieving but don't know how. This module gives you practical, honest tools for supporting others and for asking for support yourself when you need it.
40 minutes

Funerals are one of the few rituals we have for death and most of us know almost nothing about them until we're standing in the middle of one. This module covers what funerals are for, how they work, and the many ways people choose to mark a death. Including how you might want yours to look.
45 minutes

This is where it all comes together. You'll look back across everything you've explored and build your own personal toolkit, a living document of what you know, what you believe, and how you want to meet death and grief when they arrive.
40 minutes
DISCLAIMER
LightsOut provides grief education and skills development.
This program does not replace professional mental health care.
If you are in crisis, please contact: - Lifeline: 13 11 14 - Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 - Emergency: 000
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