Events
For previous speaking engagements, including podcast appearances, see Speaking.
9th July 2025, online
Tending our Grief for the World
Hosted by The Centre for Climate Psychology and held by grief tender Sophy Banks, “Tending to Our Grief for the World” is an online journey to a space of expressing and witnessing the feelings which arise in response to these times. I am co-facilitating with Sophy.
11th June 2025, online
Grief tending in community short workshop
Held on Zoom, these are 4 hours long, and give a rich taste of shared grief tending. Many have been suprised at the depth of expression and witnessing that is reached in these sessions – perhaps a testament to how natural shared grief tending is for us
30th January 2025, London, UK
The Chronic Oversharers
A conversation with Emily Bazalgette and Poonam Dhuffer, hosted by New Ways, about the transformative powers (and tensions) of creating spaces for grief and joy in organisations.
20th - 23rd September 2024, Devon, UK
Foregather Hartland
A three-day gathering to support women to connect more deeply with creative energy, through practices that deepen our relationships with self, community and the earth.
October 2024, online
New Ways Community Conversation: Grief and Joy
A conversation with Emily Bazalgette and Poonam Dhuffer, hosted by New Ways, about the transformative powers (and tensions) of creating spaces for grief and joy in organisations.
13th September 2025, online
Lumos Community chat with Nkem Ndefo
A relaxed conversation and Q&A with Nkem Ndefo as part of the Lumos Community Chat series, centred on healing and transformation. To join, sign up to the Lumos Community platform (it’s free for one month).
November 2023, online
Constellating Change: Structures and Rhythms
From the School of Systems Change. What forms and processes can support us to gather and organise?
15th October 2025, Birmingham, UK
Grief tending at Deceleration Assembly
Deceleration Assembly is a dedicated space for people actively working through endings and big changes in civil society. I will be holding an experiential and reflective session, exploring organisational endings through the Five Gates of Grief. We will gently tending to any grief that may be present, whether personal or collective.
26th October 2025, Exeter, UK
Grief tending at All Souls Day
A space to gently tend to our grief through sharing, writing, song and ritual. All Souls Day is an inter cultural community led festival that provides a space for remembrance, grief, and celebration. Inspired by traditions such as the Polish Zaduszki and the Mexican Día de los Muertos, the festival invites people from across Exeter to gather through creative workshops, performance, food, and shared ritual.