A service to remember loved ones & honor our grief

"You have to go through it and not around it." - Anonymous

Over the past two years, we have individually and collectively experienced much loss and grief, and as we enter a new normal, the first step to processing it is to name and acknowledge it.

Join this meaningful service of memory and healing to remember and honor people whom we have lost, as well as other forms of grief we sometimes find harder to acknowledge, such as grief over things we dreamt about but weren't able to experience (like graduations and other life events that might have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely). All the change we have experienced over the last two years can itself be a form of grief, and at the service, we will talk about how to support ourselves and others in difficult times.

The session will be facilitated by Abby Brockman, a chaplain at Seattle Children's Hospital, and an insightful teacher and facilitator.

If you are so moved, please bring with you a meaningful item with them that relates to the grief and loss you feel. It can be a photograph of a loved one, a memento, something that has helped you through it, or something that depicts how you feel (i.e., a stone, which feels heavy).

While there is no sign up for the service, we do ask that you register for dinner afterward.