This Living Library Members-Only event Zoom event took place on Saturday, November 1, 2025

Grief often does not match the social myths. It does not necessarily follow stages, nor does it end with tidy closure. It is often life-changing, inside and out.

In gestalt practice, trusting the process is the primary road map, and grief is respected as a teacher without a fixed timeline. A universal experience that is unique to each person, grief may bring unpredictable waves of feeling, groundlessness, a shifting sense of what matters, a need to rediscover one’s place in the world, an unexpected freedom, the slow absorption of a new reality, or surprises about what dies and what does not.

However it arrives, meeting grief with openness, time, and space can help us know and navigate this essential human experience.