Cultural Bereavement
Explore and unpack elements of cultural bereavement, a grief that arises as part of (im)migrant and refugee experiences with losses due to migration, with MESO.
Join us in conversation to dive below the surface of what cultural bereavement is, how it develops, what it can look like. This grief is a complex component of (im)migrant and refugee experiences, contributing to varied and complex individual and communal outcomes.
MESO is headed up by Tida Beattie and Soyeon Davis, both trained end-of-life doulas and grief mentors and guides. Tida's family immigrated to the US from Thailand. Soyeon and her family immigrated from South Korea.
Both have been long-distance caregivers to their immigrant parents. Attempts to collect information, education and resources to support their immigrant families addressing issues of care, aging, death and grief have been scarce to none. What they primarily found reflected one lens and perspective and provided no room for cultural safety, representation, nor relevance.
As a result, Tida and Soyeon founded MESO to provide culturally attuned resources to immigrant families, their caregivers, and their grievers in order to fill a critical need for information and to create open, non-judgmental spaces of support to shore up grounding foundations, build inner capacity and resilience.
