£21.00
Monday 25th May 2026
3pm–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum
A new festival exploring grief, love and loss arrives in Hastings this May. Good Grief Hastings will explore how creativity, conversation and community can help people support one another through grief and loss. Taking place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, 22 to 25 May 2026, the new four-day festival will bring people together for talks, workshops, music, film and creative experiences that open up compassionate conversations about death and bereavement. The festival is produced by local events organisation 18 Hours, in partnership with St Michael’s Hospice, Good Grief Festival CIC and the University of Brighton.
About this Meditation
We gather at Beltane, a powerful threshold in the year. The ancient festival of fire, vitality, and life in full emergence. This is not yet the height of summer’s bloom, but the unmistakable quickening. The sap is rising. The days lengthen. What has lain dormant through winter begins to stir with intention. There is a sense of becoming. This guided Death Meditation invites us to explore the intimate relationship between endings and aliveness; how what has been released, grieved, or completed becomes the very ground from which new vitality rises. Rather than rushing toward brightness, we will pause at the threshold. We will listen for what is shedding, what is transforming, and what is quietly ready to ignite. Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and gentle ritual, this space honours both the embers and the flame, the grief that remains and the life that insists on returning.
What We Will Explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will: Acknowledge cycles of death, fertility, and renewal. Honour what has been composted through loss or change. Connect with the subtle ignition of creative and life force energy. Stand at the threshold of becoming, without pressure to perform or bloom.
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As the light returns and the earth begins to soften into spring, we move into the season of the Great Mother — the time when life begins to stir again in the soil, in the trees, in the bodies of the earth.
And yet for many mothers, this season can also bring us closer to what has been lost.
The babies we carried.
The pregnancies that ended.
The children who we are calling in and miss but have not met yet
The mothers we have lost.
This circle is a gentle space for mothers who are holding grief, whether your loss was recent or many years ago.
A place to pause together and honour the love that remains.
We will gather in a small, intimate circle to sit with the returning light of spring, to acknowledge the lives that passed through us, and to be held in the presence of the Great Mother who holds all cycles of life and loss.
Through quiet sharing, reflection and simple ritual, we will honour what was, and make space for what is still moving within us.
If Mother’s Day passed and you felt unseen in your grief, this circle is especially for you.
You are welcome here if you are carrying grief of any kind, whether recent or long held.
A small, intimate circle.
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