St John's Community Open House

Join us at the Portland Grief House for an open house-style opportunity to meet your grieving neighbors and enjoy home-made soup as you explore the home or nestle by the fire, and - if you’d like - to engage in a lightly facilitated group conversation about how we take care of each other in times of grief, crisis, and heightening political and economic instability.

This event will be hosted by Grief House interns Emily and Eli, who will also be showing up as soup chefs, fire tenders, community members, conversation facilitators, and grievers navigating this strange and complex existence alongside you.

We really mean it when we say: come as you are. Whether you’ve been in our home a hundred times or are hearing of us for the first time; whether you are grieving the death or a person or pet, a change in your relationships, in your body, …