Need to spend time envisioning how to plot out the varying stations / set up for #AnnualGriefInPublicDay at the funeral home. I learn from every funeral & non funeral event we host on how to best enable the most healing flow in the physical & emotional.
The birthing of community events fuels me up!
36x36 canvas and paints have been swooped for our funeral home's #AnnualGriefInPublicDay participation next Sunday! Looking forward to seeing what grief inspired paint movement is created. Maybe this canvas moves forward year to year with us. Oh, the places communal grief and mourning can take us.
Ash out of town during #AnnualGriefInPublicDay at the funeral home. We host so well together, I'm bumming. If grief/death/life is your gig, & you might be open to welcome folk into the building, do reach out. It's a wild card, never know if 5 or 75 folk will join us but I want to have support there!
Twin Cities,
Who has an old rotary phone that I could borrow next Sunday? Bonus: you have a full phone booth or pay phone I can borrow! I am looking for tactile engagement for use as a wind phone for our #AnnualGriefInPublicDay.
Have you come across a wind phone in the wild?
www.mywindphone.com
A background of dirt, a yellow flower with the text over it: Annual GRIEF IN PUBLIC DAY Sunday, April 26 Noon-3pm Anderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services 1401 Arcade Street, Saint Paul, MN Drop by for a few moments, or join us the whole time.
Optional grief activity ideas for our funeral home's participation in #AnnualGriefInPublicDay continue to percolate and solidify. Brainstorms of a wind phone, shared grief painting, grief conversation cards, postcards to the dead, silent reflection, candle lighting, & more.
Do join us, Twin Cities!
Grief-in-Public Day is a collective invitation to bring grief into the open. We’ll gather across several areas for a quiet reflection, writing to our dead, grief-focused creative crafting, and connection. Together, we shift & fill gaps in how our current culture holds grief!
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Writing by the Philly Death Doula Collective on the Grief-in-Public Day Text: On this day of communal mourning, we acknowledge the global crisis of grief, magnified by atrocities such as genocide, environmental degradation, and the dismantling of oppressive systems like colonialism and capitalism. Despite these profound losses, there exists a pervasive denial of our collective sorrow. It is time to offer our communities an alternative path. As a coalition of those who work with death, we cultivate transformative movements that challenge this denial. Through creating spaces of sanctuary and validation, we provide avenues for shared mourning. By joining our efforts, we have the potential to ignite a profound awakening to the reality of grief.
Excited for our funeral home's participation in #AnnualGriefInPublicDay. Our current grief landscape is the worst, but when we connect in grief we shift the narrative. Grief leads the way in connection, death/grief light a fire with empathy. The world needs more empathy to thrive.
More on this day:
Annual Grief-in-Public Day is ultimately a day for awareness to be raised about our global grief crisis. By creating grief-accepting spaces in public, we begin to change the cultural narrative about where grief expression is acceptable.
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