Our Links and Influences
Friends, collaborators and sources of inspiration
Urgent Crisis Support:
Samaritans – 24 Hour Helpline 116 123
Grassroots – Preventing suicide together. Find help now.
The Good Grief Trust – Help and hope in one place
Cruse Bereavement Care – Helpline 0808 808 1677
Sudden Death – Helpline 0800 2600 400
Sands – Affected by the death of a baby Helpline 0808 164 3332
Find NHS Mental Health Services or contact your GP
London Survivors Gateway – Sexual Violence Support Services
Hope Again – Young people living after loss
Grief Encounter – Supporting young people and children
One to One Support:
Rose Jiggens – True Self TV – practices for the nervous system
Tania Glyde – Counselling/psychotherapy with a focus on GSRD
Verity Owers – Integrative counsellor and bereavement specialist
Pink Therapy – Independent therapy organisation working with GSRD clients
Somatic Experiencing Association UK – Trauma recovery therapists
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute – Therapists who work with the wisdom of the body
Proud Wellness – LGBTQIA+ friendly wellness practitioners
Grief Specialists – Directory of grief specialists
Group Workshops:
Sophy Banks & Jeremy Thres with Sarah, Dita and Others – Grief Tending Retreats
Betty Martin’s ‘Wheel of Consent’ – Rupert James Alison & Rose Jiggens
Death Cafe – Drink tea, eat cake, discuss death
Jane Belshaw – Conscious movement classes
Divine Ridiculous, rituals, workshops and performance
Bilal Nasim – Facilitator, Confronting Death and grief tending
Aama Sade – Tree Circle Ceremonies
Ceri Buckmaster – Non Violent Communication training and writer
Rachel Rose Reid – Yelala (Hebrew word meaning loud cry)
Writers/Teachers:
Sophy Banks – ‘Healthy Human Culture’
Francis Weller – ‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’
Sobonfu E Somé – African spirituality
Joanna Macy ‘The Work that Reconnects’
Malidoma Patrice Somé – Dagara elder, author and teacher
Camille Sapara Barton – Tending Grief
Bayo Akomolafe – ‘The Emergence Network’
Thomas Hübl – ‘Healing Collective Trauma’
Betty Martin – ‘Wheel of Consent’
Wisdom Keepers – Interface of ancestral indigenous traditions and festival culture
Martin Prechtel – Thinker and teacher
Meg John Barker – Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity Author
Jeanne Denney – Life and death educator
Carolyn Spring – Reversing adversity
Jon Fox and Sue Gill – Dead Good Guides
Stephen Jenkinson – Orphan Wisdom
Shapes of Grief – Liz Gleeson, Grief Educator
The Dark Mountain Project – ‘Uncivilisation’
John Eaton – Reverse Therapy, a simple educational process
Inspirational Breathing – Learn to breathe
Jem Bendell – Deep Adaptation to societal breakdown
Grief Resources:
At a Loss – Bereavement Services Information
Grassroots – Preventing suicide together
The Good Grief Trust – Help with bereavement
SANDS – Stillbirth, neonatal death, affected by the death of a baby
Mariposa Trust – Support for those who have lost children
Good Grief Network – Peer to peer support for collective grief
Blue Cross – Pet bereavement support
Mental Wellbeing:
In the Rooms – Online Addiction Recovery Community
Good Thinking – Digital Mental Wellbeing for London
Head Space – Mindfulness
Climate Psychology Alliance – Addressing psychological effects of climate crisis
Prevent Suicide – Suicide prevention support
Unikseek – Neurodiversity resources
End of Life:
Dying Matters – Raising awareness of dying, death and bereavement
Before I Go Solutions – Creating end-of-life plans
The Art of Dying – Rethinking the art of accompaniment at the end of life
Companion Voices – Singing for the end of life
Natural Death Centre – Independent Funeral Advice
Beyond Life – Practical information after someone has died
Other Organisations:
WAYOut Arts – Changing lives through arts
Wisdom Spring – Set up by Sobonfu Somé. Global water, education, youth projects
St Ethelburgas – Makers of Peacemakers
Art Refuge – Art therapy to support well-being of displaced people
Creative Inspiration:
Andrew Heaps – Website design
Rachel Rose Reid – storyteller
Monique Roffey – Writer
Kimwei McCarthy – Music, words, workshops
Stephen Wright – Artist, ‘House of Dreams’
Tony Gammidge – Artist and film maker
You Me Bum Bum Train – Interactive theatre
Bryony Kimmings – Multi-platform artist
Jon Fox & Sue Gill – Welfare State International
Maeve Gavin – ‘The Keening Wake’
Kim Bateman – Speaker, Writer
Patch Adams – Gesuntheit Institute, doctor and activist
Frida Kahlo – Artist
Sister Corita Kent – Artist
Grayson Perry – Artist
Robert Rauschenberg – Artist
Julian Cope – Musician and maverick
Gabrielle Roth – 5 rhythms movement
Alejandro Jodorowsky – Film maker and psycho-magician
Koryo Tours – Adventure travel to unusual desitinations
Burning Man – A global community
House of Honey – Music and events
Thanks to those whose creativity and wisdom has inspired us
