Community Grief 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 traversed 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 Grief Rituals are informed by the work of many grief tenders and teachers, including Francis Weller, Phylida Anam-Áire, Stephen Jenkinson, and Megan Devine, as well as broader traditions of communal grief tending and ancestral ritual. This work is also shaped by my lived experience with grief, loss, and death, and by my training and practice as a death doula. I do not approach grief as something to be fixed or resolved, but as something that asks for witness, relationship, and integration.
What to expect:
Grief Ritual is held as a gently structured, embodied gathering. We’ll begin with a grounding practice to help settle into the body and the space. From there, you’ll be invited into a simple reflection, followed by time to speak and be witnessed in community, if you choose. Sharing is always optional. Listening is also a form of participation.
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.