Grief and Loss Community Circles

Monthly Drop in Grief and Loss Circles

Join me for a 75-minute circle that is a space to be witnessed in your grief and loss

An opportunity to companion yourself and one another through the universal experience of grief and loss

Each circle includes:

  • Introduction and group sharing guidelines.

  • A short theme, poem or pondering about grief and loss.

  • A guided centering meditation to explore how grief and loss is being experienced in your body, heart and mind.

  • Time for journaling/self-reflection

  • A sharing circle where you can be deeply listened to while also deeply listening to others.

  • Closing and integration practice

Attend Virtually or In Person

Virtual Community Circle

  • Currently paused. Please contact me HERE with requests for virtual grief and loss circles.

In Person Community Circle

  • Two Circles per month-one at Madison location and one at Fitchburg

  • Monthly Drop In

  • Perennial members $20 and non members $30

  • Register on Perennial’s website

  • "Shandra creates a safe container to be with grief in community, facilitating a sweet and sacred community around this universal experience. I have gotten deep and meaningful healing and support by attending her grief circles. "

    Taylor Franklin

  • "The Grief Circle was exactly what I needed in my early grief. I appreciated the layered modalities and sacred space for sharing. Thank you!"

    Participant in Grief and Loss Community Circle

  • "Both types of circles have been great. I felt pretty lost and alone after the death of my mother. I saw a therapist and have a supportive family and network of friends, but the circles are the place I really felt heard and seen."

    Participant in virtual and in person grief and loss community circle

“When our sorrows are witnessed and held within a community of compassion, grief can surprisingly turn to joy, to a love emboldened for all that surrounds us.

Love and loss have been eternally entwined. To acknowledge our grief is to free our love to fall outwards into the waiting world.” 

— Francis Weller