Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community - Softcover

Barton, Camille

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623179947 ISBN 13: 9781623179946

Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S., 2024

Synopsis

An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community--practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss <p/>We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief--deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person's experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Sapara Barton's take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss. <p/>Deeply practical and easy to use in times of confusion, trauma, and pain, Tending Grief includes rituals, reflection prompts, and exercises that help us process and metabolize our grief--without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore. Sapara Barton includes exercises that can be done both alone and in community, including: <p/>

• Altar practices to honor and connect with ancestors known and unknown
• Locating, holding, and dancing your grief
• Sharing circles for processing communal loss
• Water, fire, and nature-based rituals
• Honoring the survival utility of numbness--and knowing when it's time to release it
• Peer support and integration
• Herbal medicines and plant-based healing

Sapara Barton honors each and every experience: The loss of displacement from homelands, from severed lineages and ancestral ways of knowing. The grief of colonization and theft. The deep heaviness that burrows into our bodies when society tells us our bodies are wrong. Practical tools and rituals help readers feel into their grief, honor what comes up, and move forward in healing. <p/>Written specifically to center and hold the grief of BIPOC readers, Tending Grief is an invitation to reconnect to what we've lost, to find community in our grief, and to tend to our own suffering for our individual and collective wellbeing.

About this title

About the Author

Camille Sapara Barton is a Social Imagineer who operates as a catalyst for social change, creating networks of care and livable futures. They work as an artist, facilitator, consultant, and curator across the realms of embodied social justice, grief, pleasure, and drug policy. <p/>Rooted in Black feminism, ecology, and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside somatics, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic-assisted therapy to arts education. Camille has taught within programs for psychedelic therapists in training including Alma Institute, Psychedelic Coalition for Health, Synthesis, and CIIS. Since 2017, they have worked as a consultant with MAPS, ensuring that MDMA psychotherapy will be accessible to BIPOC and other communities disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. <p/>Camille is currently based in Amsterdam, where they worked as the director of Ecologies of Transformation, a temporary Masters program at Sandberg Institute, researching how art-making and embodiment can create social change.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623179947
• ISBN 13: 9781623179946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272