The Common Thread
A Community Gathering for Collective Grief, Song & Somatic Ritual
A Community Gathering for Collective Grief, Song & Somatic Ritual
Join us on January 24th, 2026 from 6PM - 7:30 PM for The Common Thread: Collective Grief & Song Gathering. This is a community gathering created to hold collective grief and complex emotions in a shared, embodied, and relational way.
In a culture that encourages us to move on quickly and process privately, this gathering offers something different: a space to slow down, feel together, and remember our interconnectedness. Grief, exhaustion, uncertainty, and longing do not belong to any one person alone. They move through communities, systems, and bodies—and they ask to be met collectively.
Through guided somatic practices, communal song, and gentle ritual, we will create a container where emotions can be expressed, witnessed, and honored without pressure to fix, resolve, or transcend them. This is not a performance space, nor a therapy session, but a ritual gathering grounded in presence, care, and shared humanity.
The Common Thread welcomes those carrying personal loss, collective grief, and the quieter, unnamed weight of living in uncertain times. No prior experience with singing, somatic work, or ritual is required. You are invited to arrive exactly as you are.
This gathering is trauma-informed, non-religious, and inclusive. It is an offering of remembrance, connection, and the recognition that healing is not meant to happen alone.
About your facilitator: I am Vesper, known as The Soul Midwife — a Board-Certified Clinical Chaplain, Priestess, and ritual guide who has spent years accompanying people through life’s most tender thresholds.
My work was shaped in hospitals and hospice settings, at bedsides and in moments of profound change — where grief, trauma, spiritual crisis, and identity shifts converge. What I learned is this: most people are not lacking insight; they are lacking containment.
They need spaces where the nervous system can soften, the body can be listened to, and meaning can emerge without being rushed.
This work exists to offer trauma-informed spiritual care that honors the body, the psyche, and the soul together. My hope is you will join us and feel supported in our collective grief.
