Dear Circle Tender: On Grief, Ritual & Belonging

Welcome to Dear Circle Tender - a podcast that explores how to welcome grief into community spaces and why this matters. Here we'll talk about all things grief work, including why it's becoming more and more recognized as this essential skill for leaders and healers as well as for people just living their everyday lives.

So what exactly is grief work and community grief tending? Why is there this sudden shift away from a more private individual grief process? How can moving and metabolizing our grief with others actually generate something that's a value for the whole community? How can it even be a form of activism that can mend our culture of separation? ****

I'm joining you from the Pacific Northwest where I've had a chance to see this thing called Community Grief Tending grow over the past decade from this more underground movement into something that has suddenly become a lot more mainstream. And there's been some really powerful and surprising things that have emerged from this over the past few years that I'm excited to share with you.

Dear Circle Tender: On Grief, Belonging & Leadership