Grief Tending in Community
A ritual space for collective remembering, feeling, and healing
What is Grief Tending?
Grief is like compost—a state of being that is often painful and avoided. However when honoured in a good way it has the capacity to be nourishing and renewing. Though many of us are often isolated us in our sorrow, grief is not meant to be carried alone. It is meant to be witnessed, felt, and held in community.
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In these Grief Tending in Community Workshops, we gather to explore how to grieve well together. You’ll be guided through an intentional process of grieving —that begins with creating and leaning into support then moves into acknowledging and honouring our grief. The process ends with rest, integration, and often joy.
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Together, we make space for what is here, what has been neglected, and what is ready to be released—held by the sacred container of community, compassion, water, and ceremony.
Who is this for?
Grief Tending in Community is for those who:
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Feel the ache of unexpressed grief and don’t know where to begin
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Experience numbness, or feel distant from their grief
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Long for ritual, community, and connection in their healing
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Are curious, unsure, or even resistant—yet feel a call
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Grieve not only loved ones, but lost dreams, unmet needs, ancestral wounds, and the state of the Earth
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Are tender-hearted and truth-seeking, brave enough to feel in a world that often turns away​​​
What to Expect
Each grief tending session may include:​
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Welcome - meeting each other
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Building the banks - Calling in and remembering what supports us
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Group agreements - how are we going to care for each other and ourselves
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Embodied learning – about healthy grieving and the many forms grief takes
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Expression – writing, movement, song, and sharing
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Listening to each other
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Ritual release – offering our grief to the altar, to each other, pouring water, held in song
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Soothing integration – guided rest
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Closing – returning to resource, witnessing, gentle return, and celebration
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​These workshops are most rich when co-held. I often invite a co-facilitator and assistants to support the container, honouring the beauty of shared space-holding.
​You are empowered to follow your needs, making the grief journey your own.
You may bring your tears, your numbness, your anger, or your uncertainty. You belong, as you are.
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Testimonial
Adhya Rose, Holistic Business Mentor
From engaging in grief tending, I learned that I hold more grief than I realized, and to honour it. I learned the power of ceremony & community. And I learned what the feelings are that have been dormant, waiting for me to give them space to breathe.
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I loved the space & opportunity to express what has been deeply held in a safe, supportive container. And I loved that other participants were encouraged to offer support. It was such a a beautiful experience.
A Note on Scope of Practice
Grief Tending in Community workshops are ritual and relational in nature. They do not replace licensed medical or psychological care, but offer a complementary path of relational support and processing of grief.
Please reflect if this work is appropriate for you before entering this communal space.​
