Community Grief Ritual

Grief is a highly misunderstood phenomenon in the modern world. In our fast-paced culture, we rarely set aside time to honor and engage our grief. The unspoken expectation is to keep grief to yourself. Have you felt that? This collective standard only leads to more desperation, depression, anxiety, fear and isolation.

Grief doesn’t just happen on its own. It requires a willingness to surrender and enter into it.

In older cultures, it is understood that grieving is a community endeavor. We need to be witnessed in our brokenness and pain. We also need to behold others in their own throes of grief. When we grieve together, we go further and deeper than we could ever go on our own.

The obstacles, adversity and losses we face are initiations into deeper levels of wisdom and maturity.

We will be gathering in community to co-create a sacred, powerful container within which to share our stories and grieve. This Grief Ritual has been brought to Turtle Island from West Africa. It is a ritual that helps us remember our connection to Nature and each other.