
The Gen Grief Toolkit (2022)
Camille Sapara Barton
This toolkit provides practical resources and rituals designed to help changemakers, especially activists and community workers, engage with grief in transformative and embodied ways. Drawing on cultural wisdom and embodiment tools inspired by the Resilience Toolkit, it includes personal and group-based practices, somatic exercises such as butterfly taps and crossing‑the‑midline movements, herbal remedies, journaling prompts, and ritual structures for grief expression and collective care. The toolkit aims to normalize grief as a shared, socially grounded experience that can strengthen interdependence, community resilience, and activist well‑being across diverse contexts and movements.
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