Communal Grief Ritual at Om Culture

Name: Communal Grief Ritual at Om Culture
Start: 2026-03-01T15:00:00-08:00
Location: OmCulture

Schedule

Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

OmCulture | Seattle, WA

Living in the world means experiencing grief. We lose loved ones to death or distance, places we care about get destroyed, we are forced to let go of important dreams, our bodies and abilities change, and the violence of empire causes unnecessary suffering that we feel powerless to stop.
There are many doors into grief, all worthy of our attention, and we are remembering how to feel it all instead of stuffing it down. We can’t do it alone. We need each other.
Grief is universal. It is shared. And through our shared grief, we can have access to incredible love, joy, and connection to the larger whole—a remembrance deep in our bones and lineages.
Through song and beauty-making, story sharing and embodied releasing, we’ll bring our sorrow and grief, our anger and rage, our shame and guilt, even our joy and love, all to a cocreated communal shrine to what is possible inside and between us.
With that intention and prayer, we invite you to a Communal Grief Ritual to be held at Om Culture on Sunday, March 1st.
PLEASE ARRIVE AT 3PM. We will begin in circle promptly at 3:30pm and end around 9pm "spirit time". After the ritual you will be nourished with a delicious home-cooked meal cooked by Chef Jordan. (If you have any dietary restrictions, please email them [email protected].)
Tickets Here:
https://events.humanitix.com/communal-grief-ritual-7gbkf3ar
While this ritual will include song, music, movement, council circle, and an invitation for expressive emoting (including wailing, weeping, etc.), we will also be working to ensure the space feels accessible for those with sound sensitivities (no drumming, asking for screams to be in pillows, etc.). If you have any questions or concerns on if this ritual may be for you, please reach out to Jordan at [email protected] or Carey at [email protected].
This gathering is directly inspired by the Truth Mandala ritual created by Joanna Macy (learn more about that here), as well as the lineages and wisdom of so many others who have influenced our personal and communal grief work—Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé, Francis Weller, Martín Prechtel, Bayo Akomolafe, and of course our dearest elders in community—Laurence Cole, Thérèse Charvet, Tere Carranza, Mary Hart and many more.