Grief Cafés: Gatherings for the bereaved and broken-hearted.
A safe place to talk about all the stuff others won't.
What’s involved?
If you are longing to have meaningful conversations about all things grief and loss, join us for our next Grief Café on Friday, November 1, 2024 from noon to 13:15 EST. Together we’ll:
Discover grief wisdoms
Connect with life losses — the ones that never go away
Honour our deceased loved ones
Share healthy and healing coping strategies
Explore what lives beyond grief
Grow as a community
On the other side of grief is joy. Profound, heart expanding and purpose filled joy. When we give ourselves permission to meet our grief from a place of self-compassion, we open ourselves to what lives beyond grief.
What you’ll receive
Each Grief Café is unique because each person’s grief story is unique. We don’t promise to ‘fix your broken heart’ or ‘heal your pain’. It’s not how this grief work, works.
What we can promise is that you might:
Feel seen, heard and accepted
Experience relief
Walk away feeling more informed about what is happening to you
Learn to tap into the sorrows you carry in your griefcase
Bear witness to other people’s suffering
Feel inspired to learn more
What are Grief Cafés?
In 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, Dina was looking for a way to support the grief she was witnessing in the world. Inspired by Death Cafés, Dina began to host Grief Cafés on Zoom to raise money for SchoolBOX, a charity that first built schools in Nicaragua and now focuses on supporting Indigenous communities in Canada. Grief Cafés are designed for people who are longing to connect to their own grief and bear witness to other people’s suffering. As a Grief Doula and Certified Thanatologist, Dina is trained to companion people through their grief in a humanistic and heart-centered way.
Since then, Dina has hosted dozens of Grief Cafés, raised thousands of dollars for charities, and has contributed to a non pathologized way of supporting the bereaved, the broken-hearted and the curious.
It’s our belief that when we humanize, not pathologize the losses we carry, we are able to access deeper compassion. To be human, is to grieve.
Invitation
Join me and a growing community of grief and loss advocates who are longing to bring more empathy and love into the world. Let’s re-imagine a new way of being with our losses.
Wind Phone Project
As part of her commitment to bring more awareness to the grief experience, Dina is raising money for The Wind Phone Project. Proceeds from each Grief Cafés will go towards this beautiful tribute to the bereaved.