Community Grief Ceremony | Ritualizing Grief
Community Grief Ceremony | Ritualizing Grief
Co-creating Ritual Grief Practices in Veterinary Medicine
Co-Creating Ritual Grief Practices in Veterinary Medicine
Join with other members of our local Colorado and global veterinary community in a continuous practice of co-creating care and support protocols for our community.
As veterinary and animal care professionals, we engage with intense forms of emotion (including grief) on a daily basis. Whether these emotions are our own, our colleagues, or our clients and patients, in order to maintain our emotional health and safety, we require emotional hygiene and emotional ergonomic practices that mirror the biosecurity and physical hygiene rituals already recognized for their positive impact on patient and practitioner health.
These ceremonies are aimed at creating virtual spaces to allow animal care professionals to connect, fellowship, process their own emotional load, and support their colleagues in the processing of emotions we encounter as practitioners.
Facilitators are licensed mental health care professionals with veterinary-industry knowledge and relationship within our community.
As a community, we are actively seeking novel solutions to the professional grief experienced in the everyday routine of veterinary and animal-care professionals.
Past Ceremonies & Resources
August 13th 2024
Speaker: Co-founder of A Healing Bridge, Alexandre Jodun (he/him). Alexandre Jodun is a psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator, ritualist & ceremonialist with a creole-diasporic ancestral heritage. His eclectic work is in service to the remembering of essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry the future ones.
On his personal path, Alexandre practices vegetelismo and is in an avid apprenticeship with Master Plant Teachers, particularly Tobaco (Nicotiana Rustica) and various Amazonian trees, under the Mamancunawa lineage - which deeply informs his work and life. He lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru.
Resources discussed during ceremony:
Books: The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Podcast episodes: SAND interview with Francis Weller, Emerald Podcast (Joshua Schrei)
Poem: Hieroglyphic Stairway by Drew Dellinger
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Support this resource to our community by joining in our fundraising goals. This resources supports emotional hygiene practices and professional facilitation of grief processing among veterinary professionals.
Our $500 USD goal allows our team to host and facilitate a virtual grieving ceremony.
For those attending this event, we encourage you to bring a candle, pen, paper or journal notebook. We look forward to sharing this opportunity for those who wish to explore grief as it may relate to them personally or professionally.