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Grief Walking
A structured way for a community to accompany loss or hard transition: people move between four stations — each holding a different mode of being with grief (solitude, witnessing, expression, support) — in small groups with journals, at their own pace, with a recovery room always available. Social support made spatial: nobody has to talk, nobody has to be alone.
Prerequisites
- A real loss or transition the community shares or acknowledges; genuinely voluntary participation
- Grief invited in a work context needs an exit that carries no stigma — the recovery room is structural, not optional
- Facilitators should be resourced for strong affect and know local support options
Practical
- Time
- 35 min + 15 landing
- Group
- 12–∞ · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Four station areas; a recovery room; journals
- Mechanisms
- emotional-processing, ritual-container, stillness-silence
- Change scope
- state · one-off
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/grief-walking — Liberating Structures, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Fisher Qua & Keith McCandless (prototyped with the Seattle LS User Group) — Liberating Structures (newest depth-work addition)
In this directory via Liberating Structures
Related: Truth Mandala (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25