Vigil is a seasonal, pay-what-you-can grief circle. This is a facilitated space to mourn, to keen, and to honor your grief in whatever way is meaningful to you. All grief is welcome here, both personal and collective, for whatever you need to commemorate or acknowledge. There will be a gentle grounding practice to begin, community agreements to facilitate safe & brave space, an opportunity to share and witness, or simply to silently mourn.
We come together to witness one another and be witnessed in whatever grief is present during this intense and historic time. Whether it shows up as something collective or as mourning a very personal loss, we will bring whatever we carry together to tend to the common "well of grief" that holds it all. We offer this space now, anchored in the belief that grieving in community is an essential step in dismantling the broken systems in our world and healing both personally and collectively. We name it as a "grief circle" acknowledging that too often grief is repressed or psychologized in our culture. That said, we welcome whatever is with you in this time, whether it fits "neatly" into your definition of grief or not.
How can we be with our own grief and the grief of this tumultuous world? In what way might the sorrows of the world be making themselves known to you, just right here and now, in your own life? In what small, doable way might we name, honor, and be with that feeling?
Each season, funds raised by this event will be donated to a different charitable organization doing critical work in service of life and liberation. This is an effort on our part to lift up a prayer for balance & reciprocity in the communities we serve, to live into a new dream of how we relate to the resources that make our lives possible, and to tend to the threshold of systems of harm within late-stage capitalism.
This upcoming event will help support small Black communities in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. The people there are rebuilding with no electricity until the end of Sept in record heat. Read more about this effort and donate directly here or on @thomjana ‘s page.