space to come together to explore what it means to grieve and re-invest in life after the death of a parent

In partnership with the Portland Grief House, this group offers a space for those who have experienced the death of a parent or primary caregiver to come together to grieve and explore what comes next.

During our time together we will explore our loss and build tools to gently connect and engage with our ongoing lives as they continue alongside our grief.

This invitation is for our Autumn Portland group which will begin on October 28 and go through December.

What To Expect:

• We will gather in person the fourth Wednesday evening of each month.

• At the start of each in-person gathering we will review the prompts for the current month.

There is an invitation for participants to get together to work with the meditations/writing suggestions/activity prompts in between gatherings, but no expectation or requirement for it. We will gather information about how/how often/in what ways folks would like to be in contact and give some guidelines for starting conversations about connections.

• We will begin our time together with a led grounding activity and check in.

• This will be followed by a guided reflection on the month's theme.

• We will save time for discussion and memory & grief sharing.

• We will end with a closing ritual or takeaway.

This year long offering will cycle with the seasons. Each season we will explore a different aspect of our mourning.

You can are invited to join for one season, all of them consecutively, or come in and out as your grief requests. These seasons of mourning will repeat annually, so you can return to familiar themes year after year as you change with your loss.