Tending the Deep Well of Our Grief

A Community Grief Ritual at Bodrifty Roundhouse 

Saturday 26th November 2022

9.30am – 5pm

You are warmly invited to attend a day of healing and community in the powerful Bodrifty Roundhouse, a beautiful replica of an ancient dwelling, close to the iron age settlement of Bodrifty high up on the moors not far from Penzance with parking, toilet and kitchen.

This one-day ritual is intended as a dive into the waters of grief and we will hold people however far they want to travel.  The ritual will be held by facilitators, Catherine Lucktaylor, an experienced Ritualist and Grief Ceremonial leader and Fi Garrard, an Ecopsychotherapist who has been running groups for grief for many years.

The aim of the workshop is for participants to experience how different it feels to share their grief with other people, in nature and with spirit and how much of our grief and sorrow are collective and shared. There is a special power that comes from grieving in community. The Grief Ritual will allow you to spend time in nature and community to explore and release deep sorrow and grief in a safe and supportive sacred circle.

Each session includes calling in support, building safety and trust; stirring and connecting to grief; a ceremony to express, witness and share grief; time for reflection and integration, and preparing to return nourishing soup in the early afternoon. You could also bring some extra food to share to supplement the soup and bread.

We have a sliding scale payment to make it affordable for as many as possible, please choose what you think you can pay and the higher rate will subsidise the lower income places. If this is still out of your reach please contact us to discuss how we could make it more affordable.

£60 low income

£80 standard

£100 higher income

Your Ritual Facilitators

Catherine Nana Yaa Appiah Lucktaylor

I am an artist, ritualist and healer and I combine my Ghanaian/west African and British/Celtic heritage within my work along with my love of nature and connection with my ancestors and nature spirits. I’ve studied Tarot and divination for over 30 years and have always naturally used my creative practice therapeutically both for myself and others.

I have been facilitating grief rituals for the past 3 years and these are inspired by the work I’ve done with Sobonfu Somé and the Grief Rituals of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso. 

I’ve travelled in West Africa and Brazil and was blessed with Ifa Beads whilst in Nigeria and received blessings from Priestesses of Oshun and Yemoja.

I am currently training to be an Ancestral Healing Practitioner with Ancestral Medicine.

Fi Garrard

I have been working with people therapeutically for over 25 years as a horticultural therapist for 10 years and then a trained and qualified outdoor Counsellor since 2008.  I work one to one with adults and children outside, helping them connect and hear their own nature and how to be, listen and play in woods, fields and by the sea.  I have facilitated lots of different groups from forest school wellbeing sessions for children to deep grief circles about climate change to teaching. I teach ecopsychology, counselling and gardening which all have related themes of helping people listen deeply to their nature and to ask the question what do we really need and when its gardening what our plants and gardens need from us. More recently I have trained in grief ritual facilitation and collective trauma processing, how grief is a shared experience but that culturally we consider our grief to be personal and belong only to ourselves.  At this time in my life I am exploring my own connection with spirit.