Grief dares us to love once more" Terry Tempest Williams
As a culture we’re grief illiterate, living in a state of amnesia and anaesthesia, with unexpressed sorrow often showing up as anxiety, depression and addiction. When we deny grief, we compress the depth of our emotional experience, and our ability to live with the forces of life and death.
Together we acknowledge that sorrow is a communal cup that we all drink from, breaking down the walls between us. When we welcome and witness grief, we metabolise our sorrow, finding that the central energy of sorrow, is a vital life force. Grieving opens us to the depth of loving.
The ritual space provides a container for touching, witnessing and releasing what we carry, to cleanse our congested hearts, leaving us with a new sense of vitality.
Communal grieving is a practice of loving life together.
The ritual
The ritual is 4 hours, where we move in and out of our grief in 4 stages:
- stirring our grief with movement and talking exercises
- expressing our grief at the grief altar, supported by the community around us
- integration time with song and touch
- sharing of what we harvested for ourselves and our fellow grievers.
Suggested exchange
The suggested exchange for the half-day ritual is £25.
There are some sliding scale spots available. So please get in touch if you feel you need to be there and that exchange is prohibitive. We don’t want to exclude anyone that is called.
Booking
Booking and payment is advance is essential as we are limited to 23 spaces. So we have enough space for everyone who wants to spend time at the grief altar.
Please email gail@bigseeds.co.uk to get the booking instructions, or if you have any questions.
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With gratitude,
Gail
Gail Davidson
Big Seeds
Seeding regenerative stories
e: gail@bigseeds.co.uk
t: +44 7887 542113
w: www.bigseeds.co.uk/grief-tending-in-community
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