More and more people are completing the Apprenticing to Grief programme with us, and offering grief tending work. We’ve listed a few below, and the people and their offers are continually being updated, beyond our capacity to maintain an exact list.
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spaces where all grief is welcome
London
Sarah and Tony Pletts and Bilal Nasim are the creators of Grief Support, and offer regular on line and in person grief workshops. See their website for on line and in person workshops, as well as some beautiful animations introducing ideas of grief tending.
Norfolk Grief Tending:
Hosted by Liz Day and Jackie Stewart plus team, this group has been offering regular in person grief tending workshops and more. Their website is here.
Sussex
Shining Darkness, set up by Rohan Narse and Selena King, offer regular in person and online events in and around Forest Row in Sussex.
Cornwall and on line
Nici Harrison hosts The Grief Space with a range of in person and on line offerings
Wye valley: Jewels Wingfield has a centre and offers occasional grief focused retreats. Website is here
Support for Bereavement
The UK based Good Grief charity offers support for those who are bereaved, from others who have been bereaved. They have a great list of support, suggestions for things which can help, and practical information about dealing with the death of someone close.
Climate and ecological grief – sorrows of the world
The Work That Reconnects was created by Joanna Macy and initially called Despair and Empowerment, gives a structure and many processes for helping us to engage with information about the often overwhelming, big scale, deep time processes that are destroying the living web of life on earth and creating enormous suffering. See the WTR website, which includes listings for some facilitators in the UK. There is a UK based facilitator training for this work.
Active Hope – “How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy” – is one evolution of WTR. Active Hope is a book, as well as a 6 session programme, workshops, online study or more. In the Totnes area there are groups running regularly, contact the Inner Transition group for more information. Or see the Active Hope website for online courses and more resources.
The Good Grief Network started in the US and has spread widely – it offers a 10 step process, and training to become a facilitator of peer groups exploring climate and ecological grief
Related offerings
Healthy Human Culture offers practices and understandings for creating wise, sustainable, vibrant culture. It explains why places for metabolising grief are vital to create healthy people, groups and societies. If we collectively tend our pain it’s possible that shocks, threats and experiences of violence can contribute to strengthened connections, increasing skills in metabolising harm, and a growing ability to show up in life. Without this, pain continues to cause harm, leading to increasing separation and recycling of trauma into other human and non-human bodies, and passing down generations. See more from Sophy and others here
Lifebeat: a uk based organisation offering week long creative camps for fourteen to eighteen year olds. One part of what is offered within the week is a ceremonial space in which young people are able to express some of what they have been carrying in life. www.lifebeat.co.uk
Regenco – working with the regenerative powers of nature: focuses on learning how to work with the regenerative powers of nature offering experience and doorways to deepen into Landtime, rites of passage, dying practice and council. Here is a link to its current website.