This is a 90-minute Zoom-based grief space created for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (People of the Global Majority) who are tired, overwhelmed, and carrying grief about their relationship to work.

This is not a productivity workshop.
It is not a space for performance.

This is a ceremonial space to rest, to grieve, to be witnessed, and to remember that your softness is sacred, even in (especially in) the workplace.

We’ll breathe together.
We’ll write.
We’ll cry.
We’ll imagine new ways of being beyond grind culture.

This circle is rooted in Afro-Indigenous cosmology and guided by the voices of Nikki Giovanni, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and adrienne maree brown. Expect slowness, tenderness, and truth.

 🕰️ When & where?: 90 minutes on Sunday, August 10th from 2 pm PST to 3:30 (maybe slightly over, ending at 3:45 depending on participants) pm PST
📍 Location: Zoom (link sent 2 days before the event)
🎟️ Cost: Free but donations for energy exchange are welcome
🌱 Who this is for: This is a BIPOC-only space. Please do not register if you do not identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. Capped at 20 Zoom participants for an intimate gathering.

Link to register: https://forms.gle/nSrDipt4LRvUNuy88

Whiteness asks white-bodied people to surrender culture, connection, and embodiment in exchange for a fragile sense of safety and power. This circle is a guided ritual where white-bodied people can name and grieve those losses together—while stepping toward accountability and reparations.

What to Expect

• Embodiment practices inspired by My Grandmother’s Hands (Resmaa Menakem)

• Reflection on how white-supremacy culture wounds white people (Greg Elliot)

• Paired breakouts, whole-group sharing, and a seven-generations ancestor ritual

• Practical next steps, including treating reparations as a monthly line-item

Logistics

• 📅 Date / Time: 8/31/25 11 am PST (please convert to your time zone)

• 💻 Platform: Zoom (link emailed after registration, 2 days before circle)

• ⏳ Length: 2.5 hours (with two short bio breaks)

• 👥 Capacity: 20-25 spots

Pre-Work:
Before the gathering, please talk with an elder—or do a quick records search—about the oldest ancestor you can trace. Write down their name or the earliest homeland you discover, and bring that to speak aloud during our ancestral roll-call. If you can’t find a name, bring the place or simply “Unknown.”

Agreements
This is a confidential space for white-bodied people ready to engage grief, discomfort, and responsibility. Please arrive on time, stay for the full session, and uphold our community agreements (we will discuss and co-create as a group)

Questions? Email cowriecrossings@gmail.com or leave them on this form.

I look forward to grieving—and healing—across seven generations with you.

2.5-hour ritual space • Live on Zoom NOT RECORDED

Register here: https://forms.gle/C16eELFLxDbVzskb9

As Above So Below: A Death Labor (Readiness) Class

A 2.5–3 hour immersive workshop on dying, living, and letting go

What if dying wasn’t something to dread, but something to prepare for… like birth, or love, or a deep transformation?
What if your body already knows how to die, the same way it once knew how to grow, cry, grieve, or give birth?

As Above So Below is a death readiness class for people who want to meet death with curiosity, tenderness, and courage. Whether you're facing the death of a loved one, walking through your own mortality, or simply longing for a deeper relationship with impermanence, this space is for you.

🕯️ In this class, you will:

• Explore death as a natural labor of release. Like childbirth, but in reverse

• Reflect on your own relationship to dying, control, and ego

• Practice letting go through writing, body-based awareness, and small acts of surrender

• Engage in a death rehearsal meditation; a guided journey into the process of dying and returning

• Learn about sudden and violent deaths, and how the body, spirit, and survivors make sense of them

• Leave with one small act you can take in the next 24 hours to begin preparing for a long goodbye or an unexpected ending

💬 This class is for you if:

• You’re afraid of death, and don’t want fear to make your decisions for you

• You’ve lost someone suddenly, and need a space that acknowledges that kind of death

• You’re a caregiver, spiritual seeker, artist, or death doula

• You want to make peace with not knowing

• You’re ready to practice dying as a way of becoming more fully alive

📍Format

On Zoom | 2.5–3 hours | 10 am PST
Donation based/NOTAFLOF

🕊️ Come as you are. Leave a little more ready.

We prepare for birth.
We prepare for marriage.
We even prepare for taxes.

But how many of us prepare for death?

This class is a beginning: a gentle step toward surrender, clarity, and love.

Join us. Let’s die a little, together.

Register here: https://forms.gle/XW1WWjnEeA97CvNRA