Community Grief Tending Circles

Monthly Drop in Grief Tending 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 guided centering meditation to explore how grief and loss is being experienced in your body, heart and mind.

  • Individual time for journaling/self-reflection, drawing, or moving.

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

  • Closing ritual and integration practice

You are invited into a 75-minute grief tending circle to honor loss of any kind, held in the presence of community. Grief tending is the practice of learning to be in deeper relationship with the universal experiences of loss, sorrow and endings-creating a space to allow grief to move, be felt and witnessed.  In an overculture that encourages numbness, disconnection, and isolation, tending grief in community becomes an act of remembrance and resistance.  Tending grief regularly and in community allows for vitality, resilience and compassion to flow within ourselves, our communities and the wider world.  

Within this sacred ritual circle, grief is welcomed and honored through gently guided somatic practices, self-reflection, poetry, optional group sharing, and a closing ritual. This circle offers a place to soften, to listen and to remember that you are not alone.  Join us as we develop the capacity to bear witness to the grief of others while befriending our own sorrows to make room for more joy, aliveness and connection.  

Attend Virtually or In Person

Virtual Community Grief Tending Circle

  • 1st Thursday of the month 12:00-1:15 PM CDT on Zoom

  • Monthly Drop In

  • Tiered Pricing ($15/20/25) + free for paid subscribers to Everything Belongs

  • Register and find dates HERE

In Person Community Circle

  • 3rd Wednesday of the month 7:00-8:15 PM Fitchburg Perennial Location

  • 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