What Are the Practices and Mindsets That Can Be Helpful to Navigate Loss, Grief, Change and Transitions? And What Does It Mean to Make Good Compost as We Close Ideas, Forms, Collective Creations That No Longer Serve Us?
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What Are the Practices and Mindsets That Can Be Helpful to Navigate Loss, Grief, Change and Transitions? And What Does It Mean to Make Good Compost as We Close Ideas, Forms, Collective Creations That No Longer Serve Us?
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
While the growth of the home birth and home funeral movements are to be celebrated, we can draw upon the ancient wisdom of holding space for the birthing, dying, rejoicing, and bereaved, even if the modern hospital remains the location of the vast majority of births and deaths. Location is secondary; skilled and loving support matters most. Will th
... See moreAmy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Voyagers move through the liminal with at least some sense of what it is. They travel with their eyes open to the suffering and tragedy the pandemic has brought. The voyage through the liminal and in so doing grapple with the profound change that must now happen to birth something new, so that we don’t return to an economic system and cultural valu... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
