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. Nothing else arrives unless you ask for it.
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.
Every Tuesday at 5:00 pm Mountain, one hour. We meet as one circle, cameras on. Being seen is most of what this hour is. I open with a question or a short reading and go first, and then we go around the room. 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.
Some weeks there is something short to do with your body, or two minutes of writing.
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.
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. Most of the group is Front Range, Denver to Boulder and around, and everything happens on Google Meet, so the door is not local.
I also work with people one to one, as a grief companion. That is separate from this room, it costs money, and nobody in the circle is asked about it. If you ever want to know what it looks like, it is at averycollura.com.
None. If it turns out to be worth something to you, my Patreon, five dollars a month.
You were never meant to grieve alone. Tuesday at five. Bring what you have been carrying in the car.
Get the circle link