This is a space to meet our grief in words and sound.

Grief sometimes needs to emerge slowly, without forcing. We will warm up slowly, talk about what we are grieving and find ways of expressing grief in gentle sound exploration. 

Arrive, gently explore how we will continue.
Resource ourselves with exploring gratitude.
Describe what we are individually grieving
Resource ourselves with structured sound exploration.
Space for exploring grief through sound
Integration and grounding.

This session plays with these guiding principles: 

That grief needs to emerge slowly from the body, without forcing

That this is a being space, rather than a doing space

That we welcome the small griefs as well as the big.(Grief can arrive like a butterfly landing on your hand)

That grief needs space. It’s got to be able to move. These are griefs that have been silenced. More than anything they need space

That the receiving of someone else's grief can be expansive and healing

That embodied support and companionship is also healing

That sound alchemises pain

That the authentic meeting of grief leads organically to gratitude and joy.

Grief is what we can do when we have tried everything else and we are stuck

How Grief is situated within my work:

I am a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication and a creative conflict practitioner, mediating with and skilling up people in various kinds of organisations, relationship structures and social settings. 

A lot of my conflict work involves creating safer spaces to allow the free expression of grief and to increase capacity to hear it.

I am developing work that brings together Communication skills, Grief work and Conflict transformation as these 3 things are inextricably linked. 

I have been exploring my own grief and offering grief spaces since 2014, when I began allowing herself to grieve all the ungrieved things in life. Also working with verbal expression of grief, I starting researching embodied ways of expressing grief that seemed to work at a deeper, more mysterious, less logical level. I began witnessing for myself and others, how truly meeting grief softens and revitalises our beings.