#8: "Grief tending is the balm and the medicine of witnessing”

I’m Emily, chronically ill (primarily with ME/CFS), grief-tender, regenerative organisational designer and facilitator, coach and writer. Read about my journey in this interview, and about GriefSick in Edition #1.

The wonderful Helena Clayton and I had a conversation about grief on her Leading from Love podcast. You can listen wherever you listen to podcasts (e.g. Apple Podcasts).

We talked about

• Grief tending, Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief and why grief needs to be expressed and witnessed in community

• Chronic illness and its associated griefs

• Grief in organisational design work (my belief is that all change work is loss work)

• How might we “hospice” old systems, helping them to die with dignity and grace.

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