{"product_id":"tending-grief-embodied-rituals-for-holding-our-sorrow-and-growing-cultures-of-care-in-community-camille-sapara-barton-paperback","title":"Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community -- Camille Sapara Barton, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us. ... This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice.\"\u003cbr\u003e --adrienne maree brown, author of \u003ci\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community--practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e our grief--deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person's experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Sapara Barton's take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply practical and easy to use in times of confusion, trauma, and pain, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTending Grief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e includes rituals, reflection prompts, and exercises that help us process and metabolize our grief--without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore. Sapara Barton includes exercises that can be done both alone and in community, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAltar practices to honor and connect with ancestors known and unknown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocating, holding, and dancing your grief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharing circles for processing communal loss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater, fire, and nature-based rituals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHonoring the survival utility of numbness--and knowing when it's time to release it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeer support and integration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHerbal medicines and plant-based healing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapara Barton honors each and every experience: The loss of displacement from homelands, from severed lineages and ancestral ways of knowing. The grief of colonization and theft. The deep heaviness that burrows into our bodies when society tells us our bodies are wrong. Practical tools and rituals help readers feel into their grief, honor what comes up, and move forward in healing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten specifically to center and hold the grief of BIPOC readers, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTending Grief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an invitation to reconnect to what we've lost, to find community in our grief, and to tend to our own suffering for our individual and collective wellbeing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Camille Sapara Barton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623179946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCamille Sapara Barton is a Social Imagineer who operates as a catalyst for social change, creating networks of care and livable futures. They work as an artist, facilitator, consultant, and curator across the realms of embodied social justice, grief, pleasure, and drug policy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRooted in Black feminism, ecology, and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside somatics, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic-assisted therapy to arts education. Camille has taught within programs for psychedelic therapists in training including Alma Institute, Psychedelic Coalition for Health, Synthesis, and CIIS. Since 2017, they have worked as a consultant with MAPS, ensuring that MDMA psychotherapy will be accessible to BIPOC and other communities disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCamille is currently based in Amsterdam, where they worked as the director of Ecologies of Transformation, a temporary Masters program at Sandberg Institute, researching how art-making and embodiment can create social change.","brand":"Camille Sapara Barton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67403390779620,"sku":"9781623179946","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781623179946.jpg?v=1790668737","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/tending-grief-embodied-rituals-for-holding-our-sorrow-and-growing-cultures-of-care-in-community-camille-sapara-barton-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}