We invite you to join us for a grief ritual, which provides a space to acknowledge and express our individual and communal grief.

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.” - De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

The first noble truth in buddhism says that the world is full of suffering. And yet, we seem to have relegated our grief to the margins and the shadow of our existence.

These days, at least in our Western culture, there is on top of our personal sorrow the additional ecological grief, an overwhelming feeling of loss and death. We grief for what we loved and lost. Love, grief, and gratitude belong together.

There is no space to shed our tears, mourn our losses, wail and scream. Stiff upper lip, suck it up, pull yourself together … we all heard that at one time or another. We contract, maybe even feel ashamed of being so emotional. Dark forces can come out of this repression.

We need to make space for grief, acknowledge it communally, as it used to be before modernity took over, and maybe even before that.

This is what we try to do: provide the space and community to allow our grief to be acknowledged, to put it into the open where it belongs, and thus to acknowledge our deep love for that we have lost.

This is an interactive event, and due to the sensitivity of the topic will not be recorded.

Please be aware that grief rituals can deeply affect people so please be gentle with yourself and others.