Creating Personal Rituals for Grieving and Honoring our Losses
Join us in an interactive experience, anchored by ritual elements, to re-imagine how we can support ourselves and each other in facing the overwhelming losses—personal, ecological, political—of these times. Through connecting with our senses and our creativity, we will tap into our strengths and vulnerabilities and together create an altar display and ritual to honor our individual and collective grief. Please bring a photo or responsibly foraged gift from nature to place on the altar, and we will have paper for those who want to write or draw an offering. Facilitated by death doulas/end-of-life guides Anneke Campbell and Birgitta Kastenbaum.
Council Circle
May 14th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Birgitta Kastenbaum
Co-Founder
Bridging Transitions
Birgitta Kastenbaum, an end-of-life guide, death midwife/doula, holistic life coach, educator, and community gatherer, co-leads the Death and Dying Collective Los Angeles and is co-founder of Bridging Transitions. Birgitta works with individuals, families (biological or chosen); health, hospice, and care providers; and communities, offering emotional, spiritual and practical support and eco-friendly after-death care. She sees her work as helping us collectively re-imagine dying, death and grief.
Anneke Campbell
Author and Activist
Anneke Campbell, a writer and community activist who has worked as a midwife, nurse, English professor, yoga teacher and death educator, co-authored (with Thomas Linzey): We The People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the U.S.; co-edited Nina Simon's Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart and edited Nina’s newest book, Nature, Culture and the Sacred: One Woman Listens for Leadership. Anneke also co-produces and scripts videos for non-profits and wrote the feature film, Shot.
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