A free online grief circle. Every Tuesday at 5:00 pm Mountain, one hour, on Google Meet. Any loss, any timeline.
Leave your first name and email. The link is on the next page and in your inbox, and it is the same link every week. I send one short reminder each Tuesday, and now and then a note about my other grief work. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Grief mostly gets carried alone. People are not cold about it, and the window is just short. For a couple of weeks the messages come. Then they thin out, and you go back to work, and nobody there asks. So you carry it in the car. At three in the morning. In the parking lot before you go in.
One hour a week, you do not have to.
We meet as one circle on Google Meet, every Tuesday at 5:00 pm Mountain, for one hour, cameras on. Being seen is most of what this hour is.
The hour opens with a minute of quiet and a short guided visualization. Then comes the week's question, with two minutes alone to write or think, and we go around the room. Each person picks a number from zero to ten for how much they want to be witnessed that night, and the highest number speaks first.
When the group is large, we split into smaller rooms for part of the hour so everyone who wants to speak can.
Nobody is required to share. Passing on a turn is built into how the circle runs, and arriving with nothing to say is a normal first week. Come and be a person in the room.
Anyone who is grieving, whatever the loss and however long ago.
A death last month, or a death from years ago that people have stopped letting you mention. A parent who is still alive and gone anyway. Divorce, estrangement, a diagnosis, a country you left.
Nothing here gets ranked. There is no amount of time after which you are supposed to be finished.
No. Not therapy, and not a replacement for it. I am a grief practitioner and facilitator, not a therapist.
This room is not built for crisis. If you are in danger of hurting yourself, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any hour. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists lines by country. Come back when the ground is steadier.
I am Avery Collura, a grief practitioner and facilitator in Longmont, Colorado. People join the circle from all over.
I also work with people one to one, as a grief companion. That work is paid and separate from the circle, and you can read about it at averycollura.com. Now and then I will email to ask whether you want deeper grief work.
No. If it turns out to be worth something to you, my Patreon, five dollars a month.
Online only, on Google Meet, so you can join from anywhere, on a computer or a phone.
5:00 pm Mountain is 4:00 pm Pacific, 6:00 pm Central, and 7:00 pm Eastern.
No. Leave your first name and email once. The link stays the same, and a short reminder comes each Tuesday.
Yes. You can turn your camera off or step away at any point, without explaining. A word in the chat is enough if you leave for the night.
You were never meant to grieve alone. Tuesday at five. Bring what you have been carrying in the car.
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