DragonFly’s Rest
“A Place of Rest for Community and Connection”
Encouraging conversations; connecting our community and creating the space to move through life with understanding and awareness.
Over the past several years DragonFly’s Rest has developed into a very special centre, where all members of the community are invited to come and gain a deeper insight into themselves, life, grief and death.
A place of Rest for self-discovery and developing deeper connection to the importance of community.
At DragonFly’s rest you can join us for:
Grief Counselling
As a highly skilled End of Life Consultant, Leanne is able to offer her caring and passionate touch. Leanne is here to facilitate open conversations about the journey of death and dying, working to ensure that a strong connection is made with those who are dying, as well as their family and their carers.
End of Life Support
As a Conscious Dying Facilitator, I provide compassionate and personalised support in navigating end-of-life wishes, fostering open conversations about death, and ensuring a peaceful transition with emotional, physical, and psychological care, making death a more accepted part of life.
Community Workshops
At DragonFly’s Rest, we proudly offer a diverse range of transformative workshops and retreats designed to inspire, empower, and honour your unique journey. We warmly invite facilitators to host events at our serene centre. Contact us for details on attending or hosting a workshop.
Sound Massage
Therapeutic Sound Massage uses special singing bowls to produce the sound therapy. During a session, the singing bowls are placed on the dressed body or into the health aura and tapped gently with a felt mallet. After a sound massage, your creativity and productive energy will receive new impulses and will increase.
Conscious Coaching
Leanne offers 1:1 Coaching to help you get to know and connect to yourself on a deeper level, to move beyond the situations that have kept you stuck and to empower you to be better equipped to handle tough situations. Learn strategies and techniques to move through lifes challenges with greater ease.
Trauma Care
At DragonFly’s Rest, our Trauma Care services provide a safe, nurturing environment for healing. We offer trauma-informed counselling, mindfulness, and body-based therapies to help you build resilience, restore balance, and reclaim your life. Contact us for support.
Tranquil Accommodation
DragonFly’s Rest in Boyanup offers a serene, disability-friendly retreat for healing, respite care, and renewal. Surrounded by nature, it provides a peaceful space for individuals, families, and carers to relax, reflect, and receive therapeutic support during times of grief and change.
Death Photography
Death photography beautifully captures the final, fleeting moments of life, turning sorrow into a powerful expression of love and connection. These intimate, vulnerable images serve as tools for healing, helping both the artist and viewer navigate the emotional journey of loss.
Ceremony Celebrant
Leanne extends her compassionate and unwavering support beyond the end-of-life transition, offering guidance through ceremonies that celebrate and honour loved ones. She remains a steadfast, comforting presence, helping clients find healing in rituals and the ongoing journey of loss and grief.
“A compassionate city is a community that recognizes that care for one another at times of crisis and loss is not simply a task solely for health and social services but is everyone’s responsibility.”
Professor Allan Kellehear
Welcome all, you deserve to be here.
I’m Leanne O’Shea, Founder and Director of DragonFly’s Rest. This community centre has a long history of quality nationally recognised training, specialised counselling and quality community support.
The Centre will always be known as The South West Grief and Loss Centre but we have evolved. This is so beautifully exciting.
Community is important. Rest is very important. Together we can build compassionate connections.
I created this space to bring the community together to connect in conversation and develop a deeper sense of awareness for grief and death literacy.
A space to learn, develop and grow.
I have contributed extensively to our community; contributing to the important work of Palliative Care, Busselton Hospice, Motor Neuron Association, Developing the Compassionate Communities Network and training many to work in the community service sector.
It is an honour to share DragonFly’s Rest and contribute to developing a compassionate community. Specialising in Grief and End of Life l have developed a national reputation for quality care.
It is important that DragonFly’s Rest is available to all, with many services available to ensure we build a resilient and supported community in all areas of life.
x Leanne
Our Accommodation
DragonFly’s Rest has tranquil accommodation. Located in Boyanup, just a short 20-minute drive from Bunbury and 2 hours south of Perth, we invite you to stay with us in a place of rest, nature and relaxation.
The accommodation is equipped with two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a living/dining space; all disability-friendly.
This space is readily available to be utilised as a place of respite care, workshops and/ healing for those who are grieving to immerse in therapeutic care.
Specialised counselling is available to support those in a nurturing space that allows time to be on your own and able to work through your own challenges and emotions without the impacts of life’s distractions.
Workshops and Retreats
We regularly hold Workshops and Retreats at DragonFly’s Rest covering a wide range of topics. We also invite Workshop Facilitators to utilize this wonderful space to host your own workshops.
Connect With Leanne
Would you like more information about our workshops or services? Please call or send a message through the link below.