Grief Conversations: Tending the Broken-Open Heart is a series of dialogues with Mirabai Starr, Willow Brook and their humbly wise friends exploring the many facets of grief and loss.
Join us for a single event or become a member of Holy Lament, our ongoing grief community, for included access to all conversations.
Links to sign up for individual events will be made public on a rolling basis. To get reminders, please follow us on Instagram or join our email newsletter.
WE MEET EVERY MONTH OF 2025
Join us heart-to-heart in exploring the full spectrum of grief.
These conversations are for those who may be feeling alienated in their grief experience, longing for community and supportive resources. We hope these dialogues with companions on the journey will offer new perspectives and aid in exploring grief as a spiritual process.
The Schedule
JANUARY 5TH, 5PM PT
Rehumanizing Grief: Beneath the Lens of Mental Health
with Monika Denise Burkholder & Willow Brook
FEBRUARY 2ND, 11AM PT
The Power of Grief Ritual
with Mikyö Black-Wangmo & Willow Brook
MARCH 2ND, 11AM PT
Climate Grief & Collective Care
with Aimee Lewis Reau and LaUra Schmidt & Mirabai Starr
APRIL 6TH, 11AM PT
Dreaming with the Deceased
with Lin Diagonales & Willow Brook
MAY 4TH, 11AM PT
Bereaved Mother's Day
with Mirabai Starr & Willow Brook
JUNE 1ST, 5PM PT
Grief & Revolutionary Love After Hate Crimes
with Valarie Kaur & Mirabai Starr
JULY 6TH, 11AM PT
Grief & Poetry: Bringing Our Hearts to the Page
with Naila Francis & Mirabai Starr
AUGUST 3RD, 11AM PT
Grieving Pregnancy Loss
with Aya Maria & Willow Brook
SEPTEMBER 7TH, 10AM PT
How We Go On: Living with Another's Choice to Not Live
with Rosemerry Wahola Trommer & Mirabai Starr
OCTOBER 4TH, 11AM PT
Compound Grief & Midwifing Death
with Amber Deylon & Willow Brook
NOVEMBER 2ND, 11AM PT
Ancestral Connection
with Maria Cacho & Willow Brook
DECEMBER 7TH, 11AM PT
Loss of an Infant
with Dr Joanne Cacciatore & Mirabai Starr
Links to sign up for individual events will be made public on a rolling basis. To get reminders, please follow us on Instagram or join our email newsletter.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
We're eager to hear your voice.
Participants will be asked to submit questions before the event to inform what our speakers share. You will also have an opportunity to ask follow up questions during our time together live.
You are an important part of the conversation.
Each gathering will offer...
Wisdom from friends who have traversed the landscape of loss
Reminders that you are not alone in your nuanced experience of grief
Refuge and relief to be honest about mourning in a grief-phobic world
Growth in your grief literacy
Insight & education about grief topics rarely addressed
Inspiration to embrace grief as a spiritual path
Links to sign up for individual events will be made public on a rolling basis. To get reminders, please follow us on Instagram or join our email newsletter.
We welcome all who yearn to turn toward their grief so that it may alchemize their hearts & lives.
