Community Grieving Ritual
Grief was never meant to be carried alone. Our ancestors knew this, and many cultures still remember it. Grief was tended in community, spoken aloud, witnessed, and held by others so it did not have to be carried in isolation.
This ritual is rooted in that remembering. I hold these spaces because I know, both personally and through my work with grief and death, that being witnessed changes how grief moves through us.
My grieving rituals are informed by the work of Francis Weller, Phyllida Anam-Áire, Stephen Jenkinson, Sarah Kerr, and Megan Devine, as well as my own lived experience with grief, loss, and death. I trained as a Sacred Deathcare Guide and Grief Tender. I do not approach grief as something to be fixed or resolved. I approach it as something that asks for witness, relationship, and integration.
Multiple Dates. You can come to one or you can come to all of them.
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July 1st: 6:00 - 7:30
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July 29th: 6:00 - 7:30
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August 26th: 6:00 - 7:30
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Sept 23rd: 6:00 - 7:30
Where: Live In-Person Bozeman, MT.
Wild Wisdom Collective
7 S Tracy Ave
Bozeman, MT. 59715
$25 Sliding Scale: No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
**You must RSVP so I know how many are coming.
What to expect:
Bring whatever you are carrying. Loss, transition, ecological grief, political grief. All of it belongs here.
We begin with a grounding body practice to settle into the body and the space. From there I offer a short sound journey — drum and voice — an invitation to meet your grief where it is in this moment. No experience with journeying is needed. We are not reaching for all of it at once. We titrate. We let what wants to be present come forward, nothing more.
From there we move into reflection and journaling, followed by a simple ritual act to help the body, mind, and spirit catch up with one another and get the energy flowing again.
Just as a river can dam up over time, grief can pool and stagnate. The ritual creates space for it to move.
We then open to sharing. You can pass. There is no expectation to speak, unless your grief asks to be witnessed. We are gathering to hold space for all of you.
This is a place to be with your grief — to acknowledge what is present without needing to fix, resolve, or explain anything.
The ritual can change each time. But what stays the same is this: grief is not just spoken here. It is tended to with love, compassion and care.
What this space is, and what it is not:
Grief Ritual is not a space for fixing, problem-solving, therapy, or giving advice. It is a space to witness and be witnessed. To speak what is true, to listen without trying to change one another, and to let grief be held in community rather than managed or explained.
**This is a community ritual space, not a clinical one. It is not equipped to hold acute trauma, psychological crisis, or psychosis. If that is where you are right now, please reach out to a mental health professional first.
**You must RSVP so I know how many are coming.