Online Session - Grief Tending in Community

Online Session - Grief Tending in Community

Organised by Douglas Guest, Maeve Butler and Robin Botley of Grief Tending in Scotland

Wednesday, 8th May 7-9.30pm

Online via Zoom

This event is open to the public. Booking in advance is required.

"I have been leading a small ever changing team to do grief tending for a number of years. It started when I looked into my resistance to grief and felt that other emotions like anger & forgiveness I struggled with too. I discovered others did too when we sat in a ritual safe space. I learnt that our ancestor and indigenous people regularly visited grief for the health of the village and its ancestors. I read Francis Weller's book and it gave me a framework and a depth to holding my grief and in setting up community spaces to hold our grief collectively. We do this as volunteers and regularly attend our grief and I judge that all who arrive in these spaces, myself included, leave feeling better for sharing and witnessing." 

If this resonates think about signing up for this online event. We’ll give our presence and attention to any and all layers of grief that arise in the day. To help us frame our scope, we’ll use the ‘Five Gates of Grief’ that Francis Weller describes in his book ‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’. You don't need to have read the book to attend.

For more information and/or book a place, please email douglas_guest@yahoo.co.uk. You can also book your place here.

Photo credit: Douglas Guest