About us
Annie Blampied-Radojćin
Course Leader & Founder
Annie is an ordained ‘One Spirit’ Interfaith Minister, funeral celebrant and spiritual counsellor. She began chaplaincy work as a volunteer in the ICU for premature babies in the Brighton and Sussex University hospital and later volunteered regularly in a nursing home, before working as a chaplain at Hospice in the Weald. She also volunteered at St Catherine’s Hospice.
Annie trained with Felicity Warner in Soul Midwifery, and is a graduate of Authentic Presence, contemplative end-of-life care training inspired by Tibetan Buddhism. As a long-term student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, with over 20 year’s working in Anthroposophical Education, Annie recognises the need to explore the continuity of consciousness beyond the gates of death, and the possibility of giving and receiving support and love, to and from those across the Threshold.
Juanna Ladaga
Co-Facilitator
Juanna Grace Ladaga is an ordained OneSpirit Interfaith Minister. Having taught on the OneSpirit Ministry training for 4 years, and having been a Steiner-Waldorf Class Teacher for 16 years, Juanna trained as a Quietude® Practitioner in 2024 -25 and now works alongside Annie as a course carrier.
Juanna co-leads the Moray Threshold Choir, a group of women who sing at the bedside of the dying and co-leads local singing groups in the north of Scotland as a ‘natural voice’ practitioner. She works as a Quietude® Practitioner offering care, support and education in her local community. She trained with Pushing Up The Daisies, a grassroots organisation supporting families to make informed decisions for their loved one after their last breath. Juanna regularly conducts funerals and memorials, as well as weddings, leads workshops and offers one-to-one support and accompaniment.
Dacia Dalla Libera: Course Contributor
Dacia is a neurologist, an Ayurvedic doctor and an expert in anthroposophy and integrative medicine. She has authored numerous scientific publications in international journals, has taught in yoga and Ayurveda schools and developed training programmes for therapists and courses in mindful nutrition.
In 2025, Dacia completed the Quietude® training. She founded “The Workshop of Impermanence” to encourage a new cultural approach to death, the post-mortem experience and grief, bringing together perspectives from art, poetry, medicine and spirituality. In 2026, she established the “La Rosa d’Oro” Foundation to support end-of-life care and address social and healthcare needs. Dacia works within a home-based end-of-life care team, offering a calm presence alongside compassionate professional care, with each person’s comfort, dignity and quality of life at its heart. She also teaches with Quietude® Italia under Annie’s guidance.
Elena Martinelli: Course contributor
Elena has worked as an art therapist and holistic practitioner since 2012, offering individual and group sessions from her studio in Iseo and across Northern Italy. She trained at the School of Art Therapies in Lecco, where she studied James Hillman’s imaginal approach, and later deepened her practice through training in anthroposophical art therapy. Her experience spans schools, public and private institutions, and psychiatric settings for adults and adolescents, where she continues to contribute to therapeutic work and research. She has also trained in Traditional Chinese Massage, Qigong and Egyptian-Essene therapies, and spent five years providing treatments in a nursing home in Iseo.
Elena completed the Quietude® practitioner training at Emerson College. She supports individuals and groups through pain, grief and life’s transitions, bringing together her experience in art therapy, holistic practice and care. Her work recognises the connection between body, soul and spirit, placing each person’s spiritual needs at the heart of her approach.
Fiona Sim: ‘M’ Technique® and Pain Management
After working with children with Special Needs she worked at Park Attwood Clinic as an Anthroposphic Nurse, where her roles included caring for in-patients and out-patients, nursing management and nursing education. She currently works as a Registered Nurse in palliative care in a hospice in-patient unit, sees clients privately for Rhythmical Einreibung and ‘M’ Technique® treatments and delivers workshops and courses. She is author of a children’s book A Home for Constance. Fiona has a particular interest in the therapeutic benefits of gentle touch, its capacity to enhance communication with those who are unwell or dying and in sharing this potential with others.
Vivian Gladwell: Clowning
Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given hundreds of workshops around the world. He started clowning in 1978 and has researched the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training, medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work. He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.
Lu Orza: Storytelling
Lu is a storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator and Quietude® practitioner based in Bridport, West Dorset. Lu’s storytelling centres on making connection, finding voice, and building community. As a Quietude® practitioner (graduate of the 2022-23 cohort), Lu is particularly interested in working with folktales from around the world to open a playful and reflective space to explore cultural constructs – as well as our own beliefs and ideas – around death and dying, and what these mean for how we live.