Climate Groups & Grief Rituals
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Holding space for ecological grief, resilience, and belonging.
We are living in a time of profound ecological and social change. For many, this brings feelings of grief, fear, guilt, anger, overwhelm, or numbness.
Climate groups offer a supportive and grounded space to come together with others who are also navigating these experiences.
These groups draw inspiration from the work of Francis Weller, who speaks of grief as a communal process that reconnects us to our shared humanity, and Joanna Macy, whose Work That Reconnects invites us to honour our pain for the world while also cultivating gratitude, courage, and imagination.
They also carry the spirit of the Climate Café movement — a simple yet powerful model where people gather to speak honestly about their responses to the climate crisis in an atmosphere of respect and care.
What to Expect
Climate groups are spaces of deep listening and mutual respect. Together we create a container where ecological grief, anxiety, and longing can be spoken and held. Sessions may include:
Whole-group and small-group sharing sessions
Micro rituals and creative/art-based processes
Embodiment practices to ground and resource us
Reflective exercises that open new perspectives
Groups are offered both in person (Brisbane and the Northern Rivers) and online. Some groups are ongoing closed groups (meeting regularly over time), while others are seasonal or shorter-term. Each runs for 2 hours, allowing enough time to settle, share, and integrate what arises.
These gatherings are not about fixing or finding quick solutions. Instead, they are about accompanying one another in facing the truth of our times, and discovering the resilience, meaning, and belonging that come from being together.
If you are interested in joining a climate group or finding out about upcoming offerings, please contact me.
Grief Rituals
Gathering together to honour loss, renew connection, and reclaim our aliveness.
In these times of uncertainty and collapse — where systems are failing, humanity is suffering, and the more-than-human world is under constant threat — we need places where grief can be spoken, witnessed, and held. Grief rituals offer such a place: a return to the village, where we come together to share our sorrows, support one another, and rediscover the aliveness that flows when grief and love are given space.
Contact MeThese rituals are inspired by the work of Francis Weller, who describes grief as “a skill of the soul” and teaches of the Gates of Grief — the many ways loss and longing enter our lives, from personal bereavements to ancestral wounds, from the sorrows of the world to the pain of unrealised dreams.
Grief in this sense is not only personal, but collective and ecological. When carried alone it can weigh us down, but when carried together it can open us to connection, vitality, and joy.
Grief rituals weave together song, movement, poetry, art, nature connection, and communal sharing. The circle becomes a vessel where grief can be expressed and transformed — where tears are welcomed, silences are honoured, and community is cultivated.
These gatherings are not about fixing or rushing through pain, but about creating space where our hearts can soften, where we can hold and be held, and where grief deepens our capacity for love.
What to Expect
A supportive and intentional container held by a small team of facilitators
Individual and collective practices — including movement, creative expression, and guided ritual processes
Community care — the chance to be witnessed, supported, and to support others
Grief rituals are offered in person in Brisbane and the Northern Rivers.
They are held by a team of facilitators — because this profound work requires a village. Some gatherings are one-day events, while others unfold over two to three days, allowing for deeper immersion.
When we turn toward our grief together, we also turn toward our joy, our resilience, and our capacity to live fully in precarious times.
If you feel called to this work, you are warmly invited to join us. Please contact me for upcoming dates and details.
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