Grief & love

Grief is one of the deepest feelings — and, according to Joanna Macy, it presupposes the capacity to love. Francis Weller describes four gates of grief: grief for concrete losses and failures, for the wounded parts within ourselves, for the wounds of the world — and the often unconscious grief for a missing culture of closeness, protection and belonging.

Grief is never merely private. It needs witnessing, community and forms. What remains unspoken becomes a burden; what is shared and witnessed can move. This matters particularly for politically active people: exhaustion, bitterness or numbness are not a personal weakness but responses to real losses.

José Esteban Muñoz describes mourning for what was not allowed to be as, at the same time, a demand for a world in which it would have been possible — and still will be.

The concrete design is adapted to the topic, the group and the occasion.