Grief circles and Guided Death Meditations
These gatherings offer gently held spaces to come together in grief, reflection, and presence. They are offered both online and in person, and are guided with care, slowness, and respect for each person’s experience.
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Grief circles
Grief circles are gentle, facilitated group spaces offered both online and in person, where grief can be shared, witnessed, and held in community, without pressure to speak, explain, or be anything other than where you are.
These circles offer a calm and supportive space to sit alongside others who are navigating loss, change, or grief, held with care and compassion in a way that honours your own pace and experience.
Upcoming Grief Circles
Below you’ll find the currently available grief circles. Each circle is gently facilitated and held with care, offering a calm space to sit alongside others navigating loss, change, or grief.
Places are intentionally limited to support a sense of safety and connection. When a circle is full, booking will close.
Featured Grief Circle
Upcoming
Date: Sunday 15th March
Time: 9.45am–11.15am (UK time)
Location: Online via Zoom (link sent after booking)
About this Grief Circle
Mother’s Day can be tender for many reasons, whether you are grieving a mother, a child, a pregnancy, a relationship, the mother you hoped to be, or something more difficult to name.
This circle is a gently held space to acknowledge that tenderness.
Held during Pisces season — a time associated with deep feeling, remembrance, and emotional openness — we are invited to soften and allow what has been quietly carried to be felt and witnessed.
You are welcome to bring whatever grief you are holding — recent or long-standing, spoken or silent, personal or ancestral. There is no expectation to explain, justify, or “move forward.” You are invited simply to arrive as you are.
Together we will gather in listening, quiet reflection, and shared presence. Grief may be spoken, felt, or held in silence. This space honours the understanding that grief is not something to fix, but something to meet with patience, compassion, and care — often in the company of others.
A calm, confidential, and carefully facilitated online space
Gentle guidance with opportunities for sharing and quiet reflection
No pressure to speak — your presence is enough
A rhythm that honours slowness, sensitivity, and emotional safety
You may want to bring a cosy blanket, cup of something delicious and a candle
What to Expect
Each grief circle is thoughtfully held and gently guided, creating a sense of safety and grounding throughout.
Within the circle, there is space for:
❃ Gentle guidance and clear boundaries
❃ Time for reflection, sharing, or quiet presence
❃ No expectation to speak or participate in any particular way
❃ Respect for each person’s pace and experience
Grief circles may include simple grounding practices, moments of reflection, and space for shared humanity — always offered as an invitation, never a requirement.
Who These Circles Are For
Grief circles are open to those navigating:
❃ Grief after loss or bereavement
❃ Miscarriage or pregnancy loss
❃ Anticipatory grief
❃ Life transitions, endings, or change
❃ A desire for shared, compassionate support
You do not need to have the “right words” or a particular type of grief to attend.
Join an upcoming grief circle
If a shared, supportive space feels right for you, you’re warmly invited to join an upcoming grief circle. These are gentle, facilitated spaces — with no pressure to speak or explain.
Death Meditations
Death meditations are quiet, guided in-person gatherings that create space to sit with impermanence, mortality, and the natural cycles of life and death.
Held with care and simplicity, these sessions invite slowness, reflection, and inward listening, without expectation to speak or participate in any particular way. They offer a gentle opportunity to meet death with curiosity, steadiness, and presence, within a supportive group setting.
Upcoming Death Meditations
Below you’ll find the currently available guided death meditations. Each session is held in person and offered with care, simplicity, and gentle guidance, creating a quiet space for reflection and presence.
Places are intentionally limited to support a sense of safety, stillness, and connection. When a session is full, booking will close.
Featured Death MeditationUpcoming
At the Threshold of Rebirth
Friday 20th March 2026
2.30–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings
About this meditation
You are warmly invited to gather at the moment of balance, when light and dark stand equal, for a guided death meditation exploring rebirth, becoming, and the quiet continuities between death and life.
The Spring Equinox marks a sacred hinge in the year — not the sudden burst of bloom, but the subtle turning: seeds stirring underground, breath returning, life remembering how to move again. It is a time when what has been grieved and laid to rest begins, slowly, to transform.
This Death and Rebirth Meditation offers a softly held space to meet change with tenderness. Through guided meditation, breath, stillness, and deep rest, we will explore the passage from endings into beginnings — honouring what has died, composted, and made possible what comes next.
What we will explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will:
Reflect on cycles of death, renewal, and transformation
Honour what has been released, mourned, or laid down
Gently reconnect with vitality, hope, and re-emergence
Stand at the threshold — neither rushing forward nor turning back
This is an invitation to listen closely to what is ready to be reborn — within you and around you — at this precise moment of balance.
Who this is for
No prior experience is needed.
You are welcome to come exactly as you are.
Please bring
Something to lie or sit comfortably on (yoga mat, blanket, or cushion)
A refreshing drink (hot or cold)
A journal (optional)
An item to add to our shared living altar (optional)
Katie Rose and Ruby LoveEnd of Life Doulas and proud members of End of Life Doula UK
Join an upcoming death meditation
If a quiet, contemplative space feels right for you, you’re warmly invited to join an upcoming death meditation. These are guided, in-person sessions held with care and simplicity, with no pressure to speak or share.
“To honour grief, to grant it space and time in our frantic world, is to fulfill a covenant with soul- to welcome all that is, thereby granting room for our most authentic life. Grief stirs the heart, it is indeed the song of a soul alive.”
