About Leesl (she/her) and Emma (she/they)
We are seasoned counsellors and social workers, whose personal and professional experiences have pulled us powerfully towards Francis Weller’s work. He invites us to befriend our grief, and develop our individual and collective capacities for mutual care and healing ritual practice.
Our professional experience includes working with people traumatically impacted by interpersonal and state violence (both of us), people in palliative care and those caring for them, people bereaved by suicide (Emma), people living with disability (Leesl) and LGBQTIA+ people who are bereaved (Emma, who is also a queer person). Our personal experiences encompass living with chronic illness and disability, multiple suicide losses and other losses of many kinds.