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Community Grief Ceremony
How are you? How is your heart?
If you were a bird moving through your inner sky, what feelings would brush past your wingtips? Are there emotions asking to be seen or sounded? Is grief among them?
In our culture, grief often has no clear place to land. When it moves through us, we’re frequently left to carry it alone — without witness, without ritual, without a space that recognizes its sacredness. And yet grief is sacred. It is one of love’s many forms. Grief is love with nowhere to go.
What might it be like to meet this kind of love through sound and voice? To allow grief to be expressed — softly or strongly, sung or silent — while being compassionately witnessed by others who are doing the same? What if, instead of fixing or holding one another’s emotions, we simply agreed to be present together?
This gathering offers a gently facilitated space where we create the container together. Each person is invited to tend to their own experience while offering quiet, respectful presence to others. Responsive therapeutic sound supports the space, helping to ground and regulate the collective field without directing what arises.
Taking place on February 15th from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Greenwood Social Hall, just after Valentine’s Day, this ceremony invites us to honor another truth of love — the ache, the absence, the longing — and to do so in a way that is intentional, contained, and deeply human.
What This Is
A space where grief is welcomed without needing to be explained or resolved
A gathering where participants witness one another through presence, not advice or intervention
An invitation to express or sit with grief through sound, voice, or stillness, guided from within
A collectively held container rooted in care, self-responsibility, and mutual respect
What This Isn’t
A place to release emotions without awareness of the shared space
A therapy session or group processing circle
A container where others are expected to manage or absorb your experience
A chaotic or disruptive environment — the space is held with intention, not intensity
Please note: the requested donation amount is 25.00, but no one will be turned away. Please contact Kristi directly if this amount is prohibitive so alternative arrangements can be made.
How are you? How is your heart?
If you were a bird moving through your inner sky, what feelings would brush past your wingtips? Are there emotions asking to be seen or sounded? Is grief among them?
In our culture, grief often has no clear place to land. When it moves through us, we’re frequently left to carry it alone — without witness, without ritual, without a space that recognizes its sacredness. And yet grief is sacred. It is one of love’s many forms. Grief is love with nowhere to go.
What might it be like to meet this kind of love through sound and voice? To allow grief to be expressed — softly or strongly, sung or silent — while being compassionately witnessed by others who are doing the same? What if, instead of fixing or holding one another’s emotions, we simply agreed to be present together?
This gathering offers a gently facilitated space where we create the container together. Each person is invited to tend to their own experience while offering quiet, respectful presence to others. Responsive therapeutic sound supports the space, helping to ground and regulate the collective field without directing what arises.
Taking place on February 15th from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Greenwood Social Hall, just after Valentine’s Day, this ceremony invites us to honor another truth of love — the ache, the absence, the longing — and to do so in a way that is intentional, contained, and deeply human.
What This Is
A space where grief is welcomed without needing to be explained or resolved
A gathering where participants witness one another through presence, not advice or intervention
An invitation to express or sit with grief through sound, voice, or stillness, guided from within
A collectively held container rooted in care, self-responsibility, and mutual respect
What This Isn’t
A place to release emotions without awareness of the shared space
A therapy session or group processing circle
A container where others are expected to manage or absorb your experience
A chaotic or disruptive environment — the space is held with intention, not intensity
Please note: the requested donation amount is 25.00, but no one will be turned away. Please contact Kristi directly if this amount is prohibitive so alternative arrangements can be made.