Become a Circle of Support Member 2023

Are you someone who wants to mobilize your living knowledge of how to support people through loss, so that people living in encampments can access more healing moments?

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A Circle of Support member draws on a depth of knowledge and experience to encircle Losstenders with wisdom and care, from any of a range of cultural, spiritual, or therapeutic backgrounds.
Guide: Share & demonstrate your own creative & embodied healing practices & knowledge with the Losstender cohort
Debrief: Match with 1-2 Losstenders who you will check in with regularly from mid-July-Sept, offering ways to process experience
Mentor: Help Losstenders reframe challenges, develop self-awareness, try new approaches, feel confident to reach out and hold space for others
Celebrate & connect: Join us for events designed to build relationships across our network and prompt public witnessing of grief & loss work
From mid July to end of September
Mid-July
~24 hours for our immersive onboarding retreat
End July - Sept:
~1-3 hrs/wk
A great space of mutual exchange, growth, and ambition to test non-clinical, community-building responses to grief and loss.
1. Receptivity: Connect with people who are eager to learn from you
2. Experimentation: Be part of a learning space; safely try new things, and grow together
3. Break down barriers: Soloss encourages & supports the negotiation of authentic, caring relationships
4. Practice alternatives to talk-based care: ritual design, embodied practices, etc.
5. Honorarium of up to $600 available to decrease barriers to participation

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How we make decisions

We are looking for a range of cultural, spiritual, and practice approaches that can support the particular Losstenders in the 2023 cohort.

Hear from previous Circle of Support Members

"I think Soloss is on to something - it's a way to not just intellectualize grief but to travel through it together, I really enjoyed being invited to listen to other people’s experiences."

Scott McKeen - Ex City Councillor of Edmonton, Circle of Support Member 2021 and 2022
"I participated as a way to connect with others regarding grief and to learn more how grief can become more of public event versus a private one. I was interested in the role of creativity in grieving."

Sue Huff - Circle of Support Member 2022
"This a really rich experience, it meant that I got to be in community with other folks who are doing this work in some capacity professionally or communally in their spaces. Those are good opportunites to meet folks who are likeminded or work that is very different, and still wonderful, interesting and necessary."

Salima Versi, Circle of Support Member 2021