During these walks, facilitators will lead the group firstly through the green spaces of Waterlow Park and then into Highgate Cemetery. You will be encouraged and supported to engage with the nature available to explore and think about grief in a different way.
Although grief is a natural reaction to any loss or potential loss, it is often difficult to talk about as it can feel lonely. These walks are opportunities to pause, reflect and share, and to bring the complicated feelings that we often hide from others.
Read about a recent “walkshop” at Highgate Cemetery, co-designed and delivered by Catherine Max Consulting and Jane Faulkner, with an emphasis on mental wellbeing in the context of the long-term plans of Highgate Cemetery.
Engagement with the natural world is also an opportunity to ‘get out of our heads’ —and you will be encouraged to reflect on experiences of grief and the associated emotions while immersing yourself in the natural environment.
Using Shinrin-yoku ‘Forest Bathing’ techniques, you will be invited to notice and connect with the natural world that you will encounter on the walk, using all your senses.
Once in Highgate Cemetery, its unique environment, as a place of heritage, history, life, energy, and ecological hope, supports a different kind of conversation on loss and grief.
For more information or any queries, please contact us by email at contact@reflectivewalks.org or download the flyer
Reflecting on grief: Walking in nature 