Lost Rites: Community of Grief
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The Community of Grief maps the landscape of communal mourning and provides insight, structure and inquiry to support anyone called to “hold space” for Grief. This book explores the dynamics that already exist and that are also needing to be set in motion in order to remember and reimagine collective mourning in community spaces.
The Community of Grief maps the landscape of communal mourning and provides insight, structure and inquiry to support anyone called to “hold space” for Grief. This book explores the dynamics that already exist and that are also needing to be set in motion in order to remember and reimagine collective mourning in community spaces.
In these strong and challenging times this work is so needed, remembering Grief is love and that we can bear together what we could never bear alone. Lost Rites makes the case that not only is grieving in community essential for individual healing and integration of loss; moreover Grief itself is a force for both community cohesion and of repair. It is the reparative nature of shared catharsis that makes it the most potent medicine for our collective traumas, ancestral wounds and social injustices.
Building on the work of the first Lost Rites book “Ceremony and Ritual for Death and Dying” this second volume goes deeper into the cultural void of modern life where wholesome secular rites and ceremony are longing to be brought front and centre in our grassroots communities.
“I feel like Alexandra is one step ahead of the world providing what they just know people will be looking for when it is needed most. It has been the most incredible experience to be a participant on the webinar series while Alexandra developed this book and I although I have had a long standing calling to work with grief in communities this work helped me understand how to read a community to see where best to place myself in service. Not only that, Alexandra led me to question my motives and personal agenda for doing grief work, which was super challenging but now I am through that process and out the other side I see how essential that inquiry was. Thank you!”
About the author: Alexandra Derwen is an experienced ceremonialist and “end of life” doula; a poet, an intuitive and a weaver of stories.
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In these strong and challenging times this work is so needed, remembering Grief is love and that we can bear together what we could never bear alone. Lost Rites makes the case that not only is grieving in community essential for individual healing and integration of loss; moreover Grief itself is a force for both community cohesion and of repair. It is the reparative nature of shared catharsis that makes it the most potent medicine for our collective traumas, ancestral wounds and social injustices.
Building on the work of the first Lost Rites book “Ceremony and Ritual for Death and Dying” this second volume goes deeper into the cultural void of modern life where wholesome secular rites and ceremony are longing to be brought front and centre in our grassroots communities.
“I feel like Alexandra is one step ahead of the world providing what they just know people will be looking for when it is needed most. It has been the most incredible experience to be a participant on the webinar series while Alexandra developed this book and I although I have had a long standing calling to work with grief in communities this work helped me understand how to read a community to see where best to place myself in service. Not only that, Alexandra led me to question my motives and personal agenda for doing grief work, which was super challenging but now I am through that process and out the other side I see how essential that inquiry was. Thank you!”
About the author: Alexandra Derwen is an experienced ceremonialist and “end of life” doula; a poet, an intuitive and a weaver of stories.
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