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Honoring the Five Gates of Grief through Creative Play & Community Ritual

Sun, Oct 04

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In this five-week journey we’ll create space to meet grief with curiosity, creativity, movement, story, and community connection. We’ll explore five “gates” of grief—not as a path toward fixing or eliminating sorrow, but as invitations to transform it into connection, tenderness, and aliveness.

Honoring the Five Gates of Grief through Creative Play & Community Ritual
Honoring the Five Gates of Grief through Creative Play & Community Ritual

When & Where

Oct 04, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

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Who

What

This five-week series, based on the work of Francis Weller’s book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, the improvisational system of InterPlay, and the collaborative facilitative work of Ade Anifowose and Jennifer Denning, LMSW, invites you to honor your grief and the grief of others in soul-expanding and life-affirming ways.


All living includes loss- not only loss through the death of loved ones, but other losses, both big and small. How do we honor the grief that comes from lost relationships, jobs, changing bodies and, as grief advocate Francis Weller writes, grief from “What we expected and didn’t receive”?


How do we honor and metabolize the grief of habitat loss and the collapse of systems we counted on?


Creating breathing room for what we are carrying helps. Acknowledging grief, creating from grief, and telling our stories, moving our bodies, and gathering in community ritual can all be balms allowing our grief…


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  • Honoring the 5 Gates of Grief

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    All are welcome here.

    This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

    The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

    Finding Us

    Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

    The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

    The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

    Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

    The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

     

    We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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