Grief Tending Ritual 2025!
April 6, 2025 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Grief Tending March 2016
Join us to Tend Grief in Community on the shores of the Great Salt Lake! I am bringing this ritual back this April in response to what is happening in America at the highest level of politics. Tending our grief in community is the gateway to right action.
We The People are connected, and we are powerful.
Everyone is welcome. We will gather on the back lawn of The Great Saltair at 6:00 for a circle and begin our ritual walk to the Lake as the sun gets low in the sky. Please come dressed for the weather. You are invited to bring drums and rattles if you wish.
I have 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.
Grief Tending November 2019
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.
Grief Tending is a simple ritual in the nearby wild natural world to safely grieve freely so that you can move the energy of Grief and begin to receive its gifs.. Please contact me with any questions you might have.
“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.”
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.
Come join us at Celest Fest in late summer near Huntsville, Utah — a no-substance festival complete with song, dance, food, community, and . . . Grief Tending!!!
Windy Grief Tending, with Vaughn Lovejoy, March 2019. Photo by Erin Geesaman-Rabke
