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Resources to support grief and loss

SOME RESOURCES
for navigating grief and loss

Resources, information, community & support

  • Goodlifedeathgrief: This organization is providing spaces for open conversations about death, dying, and bereavement in a supportive setting.
  • “Inviting Abundance” supports people in their healing journeys through creative grief work, educational and writing support, and Reiki.
  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde provides accessible information and resources on bereavement support, helping individuals navigate grief with practical guidance and links to local and national services.


Texts

  • The smell of Rain on dust by Martín Prechtel: „Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow. The sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller: “[…] explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief.”

–         Grief Works by Julia Samuel is a guide that will support, inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provides clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved.

 

Some of our artist friends creating spaces for grief

  • The DeathWrites Network explored death, dying, and grief through workshops, events, and publications, and continues as an Arts Lab with a focus on community, archives, and a forthcoming anthology.
  • The “Reading and Writing Death and Dying” Arts_Lab at the University of Glasgow is an interdisciplinary initiative that explores death, dying, and bereavement through critical and creative practices, fostering collaboration among scholars, writers, and artists.
  • “Microbursts” is a collaborative work by Amanda Thomson and Elizabeth Reeder, comprising hybrid, lyric essays that delve into themes of illness, crisis, caring, grief, and creativity in an interdisciplinary approach.
  • „This Grief Thing is a project that encourages people to think, talk and learn about grief. It’s for people who have experienced grief, and for people who haven’t.” (This project was ran between 2018-2021)
  • “The Grief Series is multi-sensory with audiences being engaged as participants and co-creators.” It is an interdisciplinary arts initiative led by artist Ellie Harrison, comprising seven collaborative projects that explore grief and bereavement through creative practices.
  • Works by Chloë Sayers: e.g. “Holding it together”, a performance about friendship and grief.