“Grief is not what happens to you, grief is what happens within you. It is a part of our human condition."
About this Event

Grief Village - a sacred walk with grief

Welcome to Grief Village - a safe online space where we can come together to honor and explore our grief. This event offers a sacred journey through the depths of our emotions, providing support and guidance along the way. Join us for a transformative experience as we navigate the complexities of loss and healing. Let's walk this path together, holding space for each other's pain and growth. Embrace your grief and find solace in community. We are here for you.

This space is a village of humans apprenticing to and befriending grief, with a willingness to begin to process how grief shapes us and animates us so that we stop passing our pain, trauma, and suffering on and down untended.

Whether you are working with something acute or global, or have resources and energy to offer toward the process of/for others, we need you! We are meant to carry this together.

Read more about our community here.

Pricing: This is an (optional) donation-based/pay-what-you-feel offering. Please do not let the financial aspect stop you from attending.

Community Guidelines, please consider each of these carefully; they are part of the agreement we each make in showing up compassionately, responsibly, consciously, with integrity and dignity for ourselves and one another.

1. This is a place of relationship. We do not have to agree or even like what is emergent, and we maintain our personal and each other’s dignity, right to feel grief, and (relative) safety always. Please consider each individual’s dignity as you center your share. If it is inflammatory due to global conditions/experiences, we may ask for you to consider that and offer an alternative space. (While we cannot guarantee another’s safety, it is an inside job, we encourage bravery here.)

2. We ask that while this is a new experience for many, and we will get messy from time to time, that we all assume healthy intent. Recognize intention and impact are not always congruent, take responsibility where needed. Repair happens when it supports all involved.

3. This space comes with a built in activation warning. Part of maturing as adults is the capacity to hold on to yourself and tend/take care as needed. One option/offering is to begin to imagine your own competent protector - a way to feel accompanied in the territory of grief, sorrow, challenges, loss, and suffering. Another way to think of this is who or what did you need when you were younger, bring the energy of that with you. Examples could be; a protective animal, a soft lap, a comforting element, a human or non-human guide.

4. Make space - take space. This is a reciprocal space, noticing and adjusting when, where, how often you share or don’t is an important practice. From time to time we may practice the pause, asking you to check within about what feels important, what feels generative and supportive, and where we can practice restraint.

5. Maintain sovereignty, no one can make you feel a way you choose not to. Practice boundaries, the space between each of us to love ourselves and to be loved. Prioritize your energetic, emotional, and spiritual hygiene, recognizing activation and tend to your nervous systems fluctuations.

6. Silence is a component in processing, healing, and ripening. Something IS happening in silence. Notice how you can practice engaging spaciousness and silence in the places that usually get filled. Please know that sharing is not necessary to participate.

7. Practice sacred listening. Sharing things that have helped can be supportive, encouragement is encouraged, but no coaching, cross-talk, or advice please.

8. Lead with Love and compassion, we are all fighting battles, works in process/progress, and we all are deserving of safe spaces from judgment, shaming, ridicule or call-out/cancel culture.

9. Confidentiality is a requirement. Protection for you means protection for all of us. If our stories can be generative, then so be it, please always leave names and identifying information within the shared space. We don't require that you remain on screen but we ask that you join on screen if possible to create connection, and relative safety for all in attendance, presence and participation via chat are encouraged if off camera.

10. We hold and intend these guidelines as navigation beacons while welcoming in the whole human condition, and healthy trickster energy who may invite us to edges, invocations, territory we may not know we need.

Grief can be felt in so many ways, yet in most of our experience death is the only place it is often tolerated. Most of us have never received the support, containment, or guidance to know how to even attempt to be with our grief. We hope this space becomes a place to unburden your heart from carrying it all alone.

Sorrow and grief are personal and communal and can be experienced through many arenas such as but not limited to; death or separtation from loved-ones, loss of self or identity, genocide, imperialism, ecocide, oppression and marginalization, extinctions, economic, living/shelter/food insecurity, ancestral, soul-loss, pollution to air, water, land, psychic injury, manipulation, indoctrination, religion, separation/isolation, mental health, neglect/harm/trauma/abuse, colonialism, the ways we have caused harm, caste systems, community and belonging, violence, social systems, political systems, injustice, and more.

We are not experts nor is this space intended to substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care, or substance abuse treatment, and it is not to be used in place of any form of therapy. It is solely a communal space of individuals gathering around grief, loss, and sorrow and is only offered as such.