Grief is often treated as something to overcome, manage, or leave behind. But for many of us, grief doesn’t disappear — it changes shape, returns in waves, and quietly informs how we love and live.
This talk explores an alternative understanding of grief: not as a problem to solve, but as a relationship we learn to live with.
Drawing from lived experience, cultural perspectives (including Andean approaches to grief), and contemporary grief literacy, we’ll explore:
• Why we don’t “move on” from grief — and why that’s not a failure
• Grief as love with no place to go
• What happens when grief is avoided or numbed
• How different cultures understand grief as layered and relational
• How grief can deepen discernment around love, legacy, and meaning
This is not a clinical lecture or a healing promise. It’s a grounded, human conversation for anyone living with loss — recent or long past.
There will be space for reflection and optional sharing, with no pressure to speak.
Free / open to all
Cost: Free
Colleen: livingandagingabroad@gmail.com
Address: Abraham Lincoln Center, 5-18, Presidente Borrero, La Merced, Hotel el Dorado, El Sagrario, Cuenca, Azuay, 010111, Ecuador