Framework

A Resting Place believes grief is a sacred and dignified right to all beings.

Framework 

A Resting Place understands grief to be an expansive, personal, and oftentimes interconnected response to any type of death or separation. Whether grief is experienced as a result of interpersonal losses, death of a significant person, cultural losses (i.e., language, ancestral traditions, geographic displacement from land, or forced migration), political unrest or genocide -- it is felt, it is real, and it is a natural response. A Resting Place believes grief is a sacred and dignified right to all beings.

A Resting Place believes grief work is an essential strategy in the movement to end violence & liberation of the oppressed. Grief work invites us to reimagine new and integrative ways of being in connection in the aftermath of violent & unjust loss and within this re-imagination, to transform longing into action; a way to honor the dead through healthy living relationships.

The call to grief work is also the call to liberation. Why? Because grief requires us to be free. To embrace grief is to embrace freedom – freedom from expectation and control. It is the allowance to fly, to soar, to fall, to collapse into the depths of one's own humanity. Grief calls us to be the companion of another person’s freedom through a shared sense of loss and liberation. 

A Resting Place envisions a future without violence and oppression. In this future, each person’s grief is met with dignity, respect, empathy, and care. In this future, each person’s life is valuable, sacred, and with purpose. In this future, survivors of violence & oppression are empowered to make self determined choices on how they want to exist in their bodies, ancestral land, and traditional culture. A Resting Place believes this future world is possible now. A world worth struggling and fighting for.