Mental Health

The late African spiritual teacher Sobonfu Somé, who came from the Dagara people of Dano village in Burkino Faso, said: "Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing." Join Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective that has been holding community grief rituals since 2021, for its 5h annual community processional, Carrying Our Grief Together. This is an invitation to reach across our cultural divide of [...]