STEPPING STONES - THE GRIEF SPACE
“Some grief has a grave to visit. Some does not.
All are sacred. All deserve to be witnessed.”
Grief is not one thing. It comes for the people we love and lose — and it comes too in the silence after a marriage ends, in the body that changed without your permission, in the dream you finally had to set down, in the version of yourself you can no longer find.
Whatever brought you here — a loss the world has named, or one it hasn't — you do not have to carry it alone, and you do not have to explain it before it is held.
This is the Grief Space.
Rev. Lizzie Ward is here.
Ways to Enter the Grief Space
There is no single way to grieve, and there is no single way to be held. What follows are three doorways — each one different in form, each one rooted in the same intention: that you are not alone in this.
"The wound is the place where the light enters."
~ Rumi
Online via Zoom · Enrolled group
A small, held circle of people who have chosen to walk this season of grief together. Each week, Lizzie facilitates a space of gentle structure and deep listening — drawing on interfaith pastoral care, somatic awareness, and the wisdom of those who have gone before us in loss.
Because this is an enrolled programme, the circle has the rare gift of continuity. You will not have to begin again each week. You will be known.
The Thursday Circle meets weekly online. Places are limited.
Two 6-week blocks starting 10 Sept- 15th Oct then 5 Nov- 10 Dec 2026
In person · Church Farm, Cotterstock
Once a month, a gathering of 8 souls max— for those who are grieving, those who are reflecting, and those who simply need to belong somewhere quiet and real for a few hours. Grief is welcome here, and so is everything grief sits alongside: memory, beauty, questions, silence, community.
You do not need to be in acute loss to come. You only need to want to gather.
The Sunday Gathering meets monthly 9am-12pm. In-person places available.
Church Farm - held by ancient ground
Church Farm, Cotterstock sits beside a 12th-century Collegiate church on the River Nene — on ground that has known Roman, Druid, and monastic presence for over a thousand years. Some places have held grief for so long that it has become part of their soil.
This is one of those places.
"The present moment always will have been. Whatever you are carrying — it has been witnessed here, in this ground, before. You are not the first to bring your grief to this river."
I believe that love is the bridge between you and everything. Church Farm is one of those bridges.
Walking alongside you.
If you are carrying something that feels too tender or too complex for a group — or if you simply prefer to begin in private — Lizzie offers individual grief accompaniment. This is not therapy, and it is not advice. It is the ancient art of accompaniment: someone willing to walk beside you, at your pace, for as long as the path requires.
Lizzie brings to this work her training as an Interfaith Minister, Clinical Reflexologist, and Funeral Celebrant — and something harder to name: a pilgrim's understanding that grief, met with presence and without hurry, has the capacity to become a threshold rather than a wall.