Creative community care
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Soloss enables moments of loss to become moments of care & connection
Public ceremonies and rituals
Community learning events and workshops
Training cohorts and mentorship
Here are all the ways we show up
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We acknowledge and bear witness to loss without trying to fix, pathologize, or problematize it. Our hope? To move away from societal norms about how we’re supposed to grieve, and embrace the many paths towards healing.
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We use art & creativity to give loss a concrete form -- as a painting, object, tattoo, song, poem, story, dance, or other ritual. Our goal? To foster a sense of respect, connectedness & meaning
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We connect folks going through tough stuff with community members who have a creative practice to share. Our intent? To strengthen community care. We’re all about mutual, non-institutional relationships!
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We are made-up of a constellation of everyday people: neighbours, artists, dancers, healers, storytellers, faith leaders, cultural practitioners, and so much more. Our ambition? To run events & work as a non-hierarchical collective, making decisions together, in the open.
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We are forever experimenting and adapting. We come out of many years of story gathering, co-design and community testing. Our belief? We are never done learning!
What Soloss Offers
Learn
Explore healing practices and ways to offer community care
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Meet us at pop-up events, and participate in healing rituals & exhibitions
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Go on a 3-month group journey to learn how to hold space for your own & others’ healing. Includes a kick-off retreat, getting matched to community members, and debriefs.
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Listen & learn from healing practitioners with different life experiences, cultural traditions & faiths
Share
Contribute to a new narrative around grief and loss
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Shoutout learning, stories & resources within your own networks
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Take on a role, and be part of making decisions about Soloss
Connect
Engage with kindred spirits from different cultural, spiritual & artistic backgrounds
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Meet with a fellow community member for a listening ear, and to try a creative practice
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Find videos, articles, tools, places and spaces for healing. Add your suggestions!
Book of Moments 2022
Over 2022, Soloss engaged with frontline workers in Edmonton’s inner-city. We wanted to learn how Soloss might offer care to a group of people facing vicarious trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. What emerged? So many beautiful moments! We invite you to encounter some of these moments in the form of short stories & vignettes. We see each offering as a gift – we hope you do too!
Co-creating the future of Soloss
Together with Professor Tim Barlott from the University of Alberta, we co-created four reunion workshops with Soloss’ first cohorts of Losstenders, Sharers and Circle of Support members to explore the essence of Soloss and how to grow it in anti-capitalist, non-institutional ways. Learn more about the workshops, and check out our zine!
Soloss In Encampments
Over the past two years, we’ve developed & tested Soloss with folks living in supported housing, frontline workers, and more. Now, Soloss is returning to one of the places where the idea first emerged: encampments.
Hear from our lovely network friends
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Hear from our lovely network friends •
“People who are professionals are important and critical, but we cannot do it all, and we shouldn't . I am a big believer that if community care works well, my job will be required less and less. And that is a good thing.”
Salima Versi, Healing in Colour
“Soloss goes beyond intellectualizing grief, it reminds and invites us to travel through it together.”
Scott McKeen, Previous City Councillor Edmonton
“Through small moments, we can move people from the head back to the heart.”
Patrick Buffalo, Healing with Horses
