Write Your Grief: Song, Ceremony, Community
Express your grief through writing practices for connection and release
- Organisation: Norfolk Grief Tending
- Age groups: 18 to 25, 25 to 60, 60 plus
- 5 ways to wellbeing: Connect, Take notice, Keep learning, Give
- Cost: We're offering this on a gift basis where you choose your financial contribution.
- Date: 7th June 2025
- Time: 10am-3pm
- How to join: Booking required
- Location: Old Carrow House, Norwich
You are warmly invited to join us for this gentle day of grief tending in community, to unfurl our wings of grief and praise as we move towards the summer solstice.
This is a new offering focusing on writing shuttles as our main practice. We will also be weaving in other elements from the grief tending palette, including circle time, ceremony, movement and song.
Writing shuttles is a creative and powerful way of tapping into and expressing our feelings around loss. We have found that the invitation to write in this stream-of-consciousness mode can help us bypass the censors that sometimes block our painful experiences from coming into the light of day, where they can be witnessed and transformed.
We do this work in small groups of three, supported by the wider holding of our pop-up village. No previous writing experience is needed, and there's the option, for those who wish, to use crayons and pastels to 'draw your grief' instead.
Together we will build a strong container to support our group journey, working with these tried and tested, trauma-informed practices, and we'll spend some time connecting with the land in the extensive gardens here at Carrow House. We'll finish with some feasting, soothing and relaxation, and then have space to integrate the journey as we prepare to meet whatever awaits us when we return home.
These practices are invitations - it's all optional, which means you can participate as much or as little as you choose. We always emphasise self-care, and encourage you to go at your own pace and find your own way through our collective journey.
This is a place for you to bring:
* current grief for bereavement, health issues and life changes
* long-term grief, passed down through families and culture
* grief for our earth, for the destruction of what we love, and for future generations
* pain for the collective troubles of the planet and its people
* grief that feels stuck or frozen.
You may also simply want to deepen your relationship with grief as a force for personal and cultural transformation and healing. All of this and more is welcome
