Some notes on Grief from this text:
There are consequences to denying grief Grief is about surrender Collective grief and trauma (of Hurricane Katrina) There are dangers to our wellbeing when not recognising grief Grief moves in disorderly ways Lets move closer to grief not further away Grief always comes with trauma, trauma does not always come after grief. Grief is the opposite of indifference. Grief is an evolutionary indicator of love. The question is whether your leaders and staff have the skills to recognise grief and the resources to respond when it appears. This is difficult because tend to people deny it and move to blame. “Blame refuses grief’s complexity and wisdom. Blame forces our eyes in the wrong direction. When blame appears as a pattern, it is a reactionary habit that grows out of society’s ritual denial of grief” Death is not the burden. Inequality and the violent imbalance of power is. Loss is natural. We need the skill of coping with loss Francis Weller Gate of Grief Gate 1: everything we love we lose Gate 2: grief for places inside us that haven’t know love, that are shamed and outcast Gate 3: sorrows of the world – grief for the discrimination and violence endured by marginalised bodies Gate 4: grief for what we expected and did not receive Gate 5: Ancestral grief
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February 2023
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