Mapping Grief, Building Altars: An Interfaith Workshop

Mapping Grief, Building Altars: An Interfaith Workshop is a free, virtual gathering that brings together participants across spiritual, religious, and secular identities to process grief through storytelling and collective creative practice. Participants will co-create a digital grief map and communal altar, exploring how faith, spirituality, or secular frameworks shape experiences of loss while fostering connection across difference. This project creates an accessible space for interfaith dialogue, shared healing, and meaningful community building.

Interfaith cooperation is central to this project, bringing together participants and guest speakers from diverse religious, spiritual, and secular backgrounds to engage across differences with respect and curiosity. The workshop is intentionally designed to uplift and honor a range of belief systems, beginning with guest facilitators sharing on how faith or lack thereof shapes experiences of grief and end-of-life care. Participants will then engage in shared dialogue and collaborative art-making, building meaningful relationships through the shared storytelling and creative expression.

Through the co-creation of a Digital Grief Altar and Visual Grief Map, participants actively collaborate across differences toward a shared outcome that reflects collective loss, and care. This process fosters mutual inspiration, deep listening, and a sense of connection rooted in our shared humanity. In this way, the project embodies interfaith cooperation by transforming individual grief into a collective, creative practice that serves the common good.

This gathering is made possible by Interfaith America.