A day-long workshop, co-facilitated by Sarah Pletts and Rasha for queer people, to connect with their own lived experience of grief. The day is designed to include different ways of working to explore feelings - active listening, guided meditation, writing, drawing, movement, ritual, speaking and sounding. This event may be for you if you are dealing with personal experiences of loss, change, absence or injustice, or feeling impacted by events in the wider world. Bereavement is just one of many reasons to grieve. Often there are cumulative layers of stress, which may include developmental trauma, unfulfilled dreams, challenging family dynamics, relationship ruptures, unacknowledged grief, caring for others, chronic health issues, marginalisation, the rising costs of living, housing pressures, undigested pandemic experiences, war, violence, environmental crisis - as well as the death of chosen family or friends.
Those who attend need to be stable and supported enough to participate in a group process that may include strong expressions of emotion. We ask each participant to commit to connecting with someone they trust after the event to share their experience of the day.
Find out more:
https://www.griefsupport.org.uk
https://www.loveandloss.co.uk.
Biographies
Sarah Pletts (she/her) is an artist and an experienced facilitator of Grief Tending – a practice to give room for grief without offering solutions. To find out more about Grief Tending through animations made by Sarah, go to www.griefsupport.org.uk/videos. She lives in London with partners and chosen family.
Rasha (she/her) is a therapist working in London. She values the way Grief Tending welcomes us to connect with each other about things that matter, and so find more self connection too. The queer events are especially close to her heart as an Arab lesbian.