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Large scale, collective mourning is typical of tra

Large scale, collective mourning is typical of traumatic events. Regardless of whether the event occurred in one’s own community or in a neighboring city, the loss can be personally devastating. When the event is a collective loss, coping can be difficult because we are used to bereavement being highly individualized. While the answers to these questions of grief are complicated, their impact is important to understand, and to demystify.

Community, or collective grief is the umbrella term for the grief that is felt by a community, society, village, or nation in the wake of an event such as a war, natural disaster, or the death of a public figure. In many cultures, grief is seen as a collective experience, expressed through community rituals and verbal declarations. These expressions of communal grieving are often seen as integral aspects of addressing and working through experiences of loss.

When the connecting power of grief is recognized, it then has the power to be transformative. People who share a common feeling are empowered when they realize they are not alone, and that they can look to others for help and understanding. This then gets at the heart of communal grieving: community practice and ritual. When we grieve collectively, we are connected to a wider network of people through ritual acts.

Like all things that are shared, collective grief and grieving can be complicated. Sharing our grief with one another and expressing it together, forces communities large and small to engage with one another and deal with loss. It creates a shared network of mourners, who may not feel so alone because they have each other.

We see extraordinary evidence of the power of community grieving, and how great loss has the power to facilitate great strength.

In moments of difficulty, we struggle together. In moments of pain, we connect with one another, and these connections strengthen us in ways that cannot always happen if we remain alone.

Few examples of ways we can cope together:

🕯️Public vigils
🕯️Public memorials
🕯️Virtual gatherings
🕯️Grief circles
🕯️Protests
🕯️Grief cafes

We’re grievers, we’re going to grieve 🖤 Wh

We’re grievers, we’re going to grieve 🖤

What’s your griever quirk?

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Repost from @iconsinash In the regency of Tana T

Repost from @iconsinash

In the regency of Tana Toraja (meaning the land of the Toraja), on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, a particular burial is performed for infants who die before teething: wrapped in cloth, the corpses are placed inside the hollow of living trees.

The Toraja people believe in animism and, as the tree begins to heal, the child is believed to be absorbed.

Image 1: Palm fiber door of an infant tree burial.
Photo by Tommy Trenchard and Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville, via NPR.

Image 2: A tree with several graves. Photo by @mrstravelingteach, via thetravelingteacher.com.
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Repost from @emerald.awakenings “Avoiding death

Repost from @emerald.awakenings

“Avoiding death talks with children can lead to confusion, fear and dissociation.

It’s also just as important to be mindful of the ways in which we bring up these conversations with the littles.

A child’s capacity for these conversations will vary, but every child will have some sort of reaction to life’s biggest disruption.

Let them lead the conversation and ask questions. Avoid the need to fix or keep them from feeling things.

Above all, be honest! 🕊️

✨Slides 2-3 are a list of page recommendations created by my friends @invitingabundance ✨”
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