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Tending the Grief Garden

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Over the course of five weeks, we will use creative and personal writing, as well as mindfulness exercises, to build our capacities to metabolize grief. Despite how it is often depicted and discussed, writing is a social activity with a solitary component– and that is the balance we strive to strike

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Tending the Grief Garden
Tending the Grief Garden

When & Where

Mar 16, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EDT

Zoom

Who

What

In this workshop we will explore The Grief House’s five philosophies through engaging our own story and the memories we carry from each of those stories. Over the course of five weeks, we will use creative and personal writing, as well as mindfulness exercises, to build our capacities to metabolize grief. Despite how it is often depicted and discussed, writing is a social activity, with a solitary component– and that is the balance we strive to strike in this workshop series.


March 16: We hold space for grief from all kinds of loss, including, but not limited to loss via death. Writing Project: closed form poetry, sestina


March 23: We work to support each other from places of differing losses. We need not have the same source of loss to support each other. Writing Project: letters to the lost


March 30: We understand that grief can show up in many…


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All grief is welcome here.

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

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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