Community Gathering & Healing Circles

Tend your grief in a supportive community.

A safe space to gently invite in grief, losses, and possibilities for healing.

You can arrange for a private gathering for your community.

Contact for your Group

Be in a Supportive Community

Join others in the journey of grief, loss, and healing.

Be heard and Seen

Engage in sharing your grief experiences.
Be heard and seen as much as it feels right for you.

Bring mindful and kind awareness to be with your grief

Be guided in gentle meditative practices for respite.
Be guided in grief and trauma-sensitive ways.

Each gathering is unique and reflects the participants’ experiences and attends to the current needs and situations of that gathering.

For all grief and loss including Bereavement - Living with Illness - Caregiving - Anticipated Grief

You are Welcome.

All belief systems are welcome.

All levels of mindfulness and meditation experience are welcome.

Personal and collective griefs are a part of the human experience. The pandemic highlighted grief journeys that are often hidden and amplified the impact of the grief experience at a global level.

We enter this space with tenderness and kindness in light of events that make our hearts heavy with grief, and inconsolable for all beloved individuals and communities.

In this safe space, as we turn towards grief, we:

Honor personal and collective losses
Tend difficult emotions
Practice gentle mind-body-heart awareness
Reflect on compassionate actions toward alleviating suffering
Include meditations, reflections, journaling, and conversations

“Invitation to join a safe and sacred space to

* Turn towards grief
* Remember and honor the beloved who died, losses we’ve experienced
* Bring in gentle ritual, mind-body-heart awareness practices
* Reflect on how loss and grief intermingle with living
* Be in full presence, with what is
* Connect with the tender, kind, spot of the heart, to carry forward
* Open up to healing the heart and mind
* Gather together, for we are human and belong in communities
* To care for ourselves so we can care for others
* Call to action”

— — Healing Grief Circles, Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Community for Grief

Public events will be posted in CALENDAR.

Your guide, Yasemin Isler, MA Mindfulness Studies, is a grief educator and guide, end-of-life doula, integrative thanatologist, hospice volunteer, circle keeper, trauma sensitive mindfulness and compassion teacher and mentor and full time faculty in the country’s only Masters in Mindfulness Studies program at Lesley University. She is the creator of the MCCG program, running mindfulness and compassion based grief circles, courses, and retreats, since 2014. Yasemin has supported the grief journeys of many in group and 1:1 settings. She brings with her, experience in the field, 2000+ hours of professional certification training, 40+ years of personal contemplative practice, her own experiences of grief, loss, illness and caregiving, and full presence to being with you in this space. Yasemin has lived in three continents, living in and raising a multi ethnic and multi racial family. Inclusivity is paramount to all her engagements and interactions.