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Online Grief Tending Ritual

A welcoming space for tending and honoring our sorrows.

Online grief rituals are soulful spaces for restoring vitality, wellbeing and our connection with each other.

A message from Jono

The Promise

A warm and non-judgemental space to welcome the many faces and forms of grieving. Holding compassionate witness to reweave the bonds of connection and awaken our capacity for joy.

The Invitation

You’re invited to come-as-you-are. You may weep, you may be a quiet witness, you may be numb or you may be surprised. All that is required is your humanity and willingness to be present.

The Process

Together we slow down - and enter into small groups for writing practice and witnessing one another. No fixing or commentary, just welcoming your unspoken longings, heart-ache and tears.

“Becoming skillful at digesting our grief makes us a source of reassurance and stability for the wider community.”

Francis Weller

Dear Friend,

I’d like to warmly welcome you to our online grief tending ritual.

For thousands of years, traditional cultures have known that unexpressed grief could harden in our bodies - often leading to illness, numbness, addiction and other damaging behaviours. They also recognised that grief was most effectively digested in a communal setting.

Today, grief enters our lives a multitude of ways - losing a job, a dream, a relationship, our un-lived lives, or witnessing the state of our culture or planet. Left unattended, these sorrows can seep underground, and darken our days.

The purpose of these rituals are to tend to our grief, free up our energy and create openings for renewal. We will slow down, share our heart-aches, and offer sacred witness to each other.

Rest assured, you are welcome just as you are. There is no right way to express grief - you may weep, be quiet, be numb, cynical or surprised. All that is required is your humanity, respect and willingness to be present.

Far from being a morbid event, grief rituals are intimately connected with gratitude, aliveness and celebration, or as Khalil Gibran wrote, “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

I look forward to seeing you.

Love,

Jono

Grief Ritual Experiences

  • "I loved most being part of a community who were willing to feel the edges of their humanity, share that with others and witness others in that space too. It was beautifully and gently curated."

    Rae

  • "I loved the format of the ritual as well as people's willingness to open up and be vulnerable."

    Anonymous

  • "A sacred, honest and a deep feeling of safety. I left feeling better, lighter and part of a healing process."

    Vanessa D.

  • "I loved the sacred ritual space - and the way it honored our grief. I found the experience of holding space and also being witnessed in my own grief extremely powerful and relieving. It was like a missing puzzle piece in my life."

    Anonymous

  • "I loved the opportunity to give some space to grieve in a communal setting. Grief is usually such a lonely experience when it should be communal. I can’t thank you enough for making this happen. Everyone needs to come to this event!"

    Vanessa K.

  • "The gentle guidance into the process allowed me to begin to feel my grief in safety."

    Anonymous

  • "The gift of the ritual was to soften my grief, and keep it moving through me with presence and grace."

    Kate

  • "A rare opportunity to collectively share grief and listen to other people's grief stories."

    Paul

A Note of Welcome

This ritual honors all forms of grief including losses, change and transitions, sorrows for our world (environmental, political, racial), loss of belonging, and anything else present. There is no grief too big or too small for this work.

Online Ritual Schedule

Given the sensitive nature, these rituals will not be recorded.

Next Date Coming Soon

Time TBC

ONline Grief Tending Ritual Flow

Ritual Opening

Somatic practice, intentions, poetry, blessings, housekeeping.

Making Village

Small group journaling with sacred witnessing & listening turns.

Ritual Closing

Embodied movement, closing blessing and reflections.

“Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing.”

Sobonfu

This might be for you if…

  • You want to deepen your capacity to listen, to yourself and to what is calling for your attention

  • You want a regular practice that includes grief, somatics, devotion and community

  • Your want a generative space to metabolize your sorrows, on a personal or collective level

  • You’ve tried solo mindfulness, or podcasts, but feel like there’s a missing piece

  • You’ve had a longing for more depth, and authenticity

  • You want to supplement other wellbeing or personal development work

This isn’t for you if…

  • You’re not ready to talk about your sorrows

  • You’re experiencing a severe mental health crisis or feeling particularly unsupported.

  • You’re looking for therapy or professional health advice

  • You want to offer advice to others

  • You think people should just “move on” and look on the bright side

  • You want an academic study of grief

Meet Your Guide

Jono Fisher is a grief tender, mentor and leadership guide having 20+ years experience offering training to more than a million people. He has produced events with visionaries such as Brené Brown, Eckhart Tolle, Dr Dan Siegal, Tara Brach and the founders of Google’s most successful leadership program.

Jono has been credited for bringing mindfulness into the Australian business landscape and Apple named his Podcast the Best of 2015. His previous roles include Head of Content for Mindfulness.com, Executive Director at Sounds True, Country Director for Google’s Search Inside Yourself, Founder of the Wake Up Project, the Kindness Cards and Ambassador for the Dove+Men Care campaign.

Today, Jono lives with his family in a small coastal wine town surrounded by oceans, vineyards and a creative community. Part of his work is an invitation to normalize the practice of grief as a gateway to creativity, aliveness and leadership. Jono believes we all experience grief in our unique ways, and we need each other to be reminded that we are not alone - and that loss and grief are a part of the daily human experience.

“Grief is subversive, undermining our society’s quiet agreement that we will behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small.”

Francis Weller