LOVE AND WANTING IN GRIEF

Have you found your way to our new FaceBook page yet? Maybe you’ve come here from that page. Whichever we’re delighted that you’ve found a connection. One of the challenges of opening up conversations about grief is to try and be dispassionate in what is often a highly charged arena. The people who know most about grief are those […]

SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL

The bench at Josh’s tree This is a difficult time of the year for many who grieve for a loved one. As we gather in what is often the only time in the year when families are all together, the absence of those who have died is felt even more keenly. For us obviously the ‘emptiest’ chair […]

From the archive – GOOD GRIEF!

I was looking back through some of the posts we had written soon after Josh died and though I would republish this first as an indicator of how far we have travelled in the last six years, but also because it explains really well some of our ideas that became the motivation for  THE GOOD GRIEF […]

NEWS UPDATE NOV 2016 a new charity and a new trailer

We are extremely pleased to announce that THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT has been officially registered as a charity with the UK Charity Commission.  We now have 9 trustees dedicated to our mission of encouraging an understanding of grief as an active and creativity process.   Please visit our TEAM page to find out more about us.  Being a charity also means […]

WE HAVE A BRAND NEW WEBSITE

Welcome to the brand new online home of The Good Grief Project.  We’ve been working on a bright new look and an easy-to-navigate structure for the site, and we hope you’ll agree it now benefits from both.    Please take a look around.   In OUR FILMS you can choose from the catalogue of films and videos we have produced […]

THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT has two new team members

WE are very very pleased to be able to announce that we have two new members of our team.    Along with Jane Treays who has offered her skills as an executive producer, we have  been joined by Alice Hosking, who will be helping us organise ourselves better – basically to fulfil the role of project manager; and Judith Holder […]

Sharing our stories – new trailer for the documentary

THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT has now entered a new phase.   As you will know Jane and I travelled to the USA and Mexico last year in order to meet with and film other bereaved parents as part of an on going project to collect and publish stories of how people grieve for a child. […]

A Work in Progress

a work in progress – the view of my desktop I feel a bit remiss (and sad) that we haven’t posted news to you for quite awhile.  The thing is, that having got my head down into the edit for our documentary, it really has been very difficult to tear myself away from so many engrossing […]

Granny’s funeral – un oeufs an oeuf

“What’s the best thing that women have compared to men?” “Nipples that work!” My mum Emily had a  weird and wacky sense of humour and my brother Ned was first up at her funeral to reveal it.  Within minutes of starting his eulogy he had recounted an early joke of Emily’s that set the tone for an  evening of […]

SIX WEEKS IN CENTRAL AMERICA – part two

Jane gets close up and personal with a mural in Granada Nicaragua I write this from Mexico City.   Sorry but blogging about our experiences as been put on hold while we travel.   Time now to catch up but inevitably recalling much of the stuff we have got up to and the peoples we […]

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