GRIEF
WISDOM HUB
Insights, inspiration, and practices to honor loss and build resilience
by Larry Greene
LIFE Curator of Actionable Information for Regenerative Communities
This Wisdom Hub is part of Navigating Our Future's Foundational Series, alongside Democracy, Reverence, Love and Compassion, Ethical Economics and Whole Systems Thinking. Each Hub explores a threshold practice essential to navigating the metacrisis. We begin with grief—not because it is easy, but because it is honest. To honor our losses together is to renew our covenant with life, preparing the ground for reverence, for love and care, for democratic governance, for ethical economics, and for a return to whole-systems awareness.
This Hub approaches grief as personal medicine, communal ritual, and civic capacity. The pages invite readers into a wider circle: to feel what must be felt, to speak what must be spoken, and to move together toward practices that repair relationship with people and place. What follows blends psychology, indigenous wisdom, spiritual traditions, movement histories, and practical civic design into a single through-line: grief is love in action. It is also a public good—an essential capacity that strengthens communities, democracies, and ecosystems.
Grief is the doorway into belonging.
This Wisdom Hub recognizes that grief, when acknowledged and shared, becomes a source of healing, resistance, and collective renewal. It is the first step toward reconnection—with ourselves, with each other, and with the living Earth. Rather than treating grief as a private burden, this Hub highlights the cultural, spiritual, and communal practices that transform sorrow into strength and solidarity.
We live in a time of cascading loss. The temptation is to close the heart. Yet grief is not weakness—grief is testimony. We only grieve what we love. Grief is the soul's insistence that life is sacred.
AN INVITATION TO PRACTICE TOGETHER
Grief, when honored, is not only personal medicine but cultural glue—binding us to one another and to the Earth. It prepares us for reverence, democratic renewal, ethical economics, and whole-systems thinking.
This Hub is an invitation to practice together: to gather, to feel, to honor, and to act. Share resources from your community and join us in shaping the future.
We're inviting individuals, organizations, and communities to share how you are working with grief where you live—on school boards, in neighborhood councils, watershed groups, co-ops, and tribal governance. These contributions—whether reflections, practices, or projects—will help expand our collective library.
Tell us how grief shows up in your community work. Your stories help others find their own pathways to belonging and self-governance.
Share your practice
We're actively building our Resource Contributors Network. If you know verifiable organizations, tribes, municipalities, institutions, nonprofits, or businesses doing credible work—especially at local and bioregional levels (and significant national/global sources)—please share them with us at info@navigatingourfuture.org.
Our shared intelligence system depends on community input.
Read the full Grief Wisdom Hub for comprehensive guidance on rituals of renewal, grief as resistance, implementation roadmaps, and resources for building grief-tending capacity in your community.
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