An online one-hour gathering offering a shared space of silence to hold, be with & witness collective grief
“Where there is sorrow,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “there is holy ground.” These gatherings are an invitation to enter the sacred ground of grief and encounter the ways it enables us to walk in this world with its attendant harsh realities of loss and death. We discover how sorrow shakes us and breaks us open to depths of soul we could not imagine. Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground. We are made real and tangible by the experience of sorrow, adding substance and weight to our world. We are stripped of excess and revealed as human in our times of grief. In a very real way grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings. In truth, without some familiarity with sorrow, we do not mature as men and women. It is the broken heart, the heart that knows sorrow, that is also capable of genuine love. - The Wild Edge of Sorrow, The Sacred Work of Grief by Frances Weller
This online gathering intends to invite you to come together as a community, as a village, in honour of the collective grief that exists within each of us, for our kith and kin all over the world, and our ecological world.
Rather than analysing, interpreting, or intellectualising, we will come together with the intention of being in silence.
When our grief is not given space, it can become fragmented—held alone, internalised, expressed in ways that are harmful to ourselves and others around us
The intention of this hour will be to:
Be with what is present
To find courage in feeling 1% more deeply
Recognise the suffering that our brothers and sisters are experiencing all over the world and our ecological world.
Experience grief not as something to fix, hurry away, or rush, but as something that deserves companionship
This may be extremely vulnerable for a lot of people, as silence is often taboo. There is great discomfort in not doing anything and just being. So I ask, please have awareness and an understanding of what you may have capacity for and look after yourself.
Whether you feel deeply, feel nothing at all, or don’t know what you feel.
No expectation.
No performance.
No need to speak.
Just a space to sit, to breathe, and to not carry it alone.
There will be a brief opening and closing to gently frame the space, but the core of this gathering is silence—intentional and shared
To register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/collective-grief-an-hour-of-shared-silence-tickets-1986319351651?aff=oddtdtcreator