Grief Tending

I offered grief tending rituals since 2014 at the Great Salt Lake. This ritual, inspired by the Daruga tradition, welcomes and moves Grief, in community. This ritual is simple, body-based and held with us by the wild natural setting of the Great Salt Lake. When you are free to move Grief through your body, mind and psyche, lovingly held and witnessed, you are washed clear. You become more open and able to receive the gifts of Grief, of Joy, and of Life.

I am available for 1:1 Grief Tending support at this time.

Please contact me. I would love to offer you all I am able.

POETRY INSPIRED BY GRIEF TENDING AT THE GREAT SALT LAKE

By Kathryn Sonntag from her Grief Tending experience in April of 2019..

By Amy Brunvand, inspired by Grief Tending at the Great Salt Lake in October of 2015.

Elder and spiritual activist Vaughn Lovejoy and me at the wildly windy Community Grief Tending in March 2019. [Photo by Erin Geesaman-Rabke} — Windy Grief Tending, with Vaughn Lovejoy, March 2019. Photo by Erin Geesaman-Rabke

Grief Tending at the Great Salt Lake at dusk — Grief Tending 2019

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CELEST FEST 2006

Come join me at Celest Fest July 5–8, 2026 near Huntsville, Utah — a no-substance festival complete with song, dance, food, community, and . . . Grief Tending!!!

“Thanks for facilitating the group last night and for leading us into what felt to me like another world. It was cold, but I wanted the drums and the grieving space we created to continue until the stars and the night sky came out. Till next time.”

— Kevin E.

Psychotherapist and author Francis Weller, MFT discusses the communal nature of grief, the expressive virtue of anger, false happiness, and the two hands of grief and gratitude. Interview recorded at the 2013 Minnesota Men's Conference.