Are you currently in a time of grief and are not sure what to say when people ask what support you need? Want to make a care plan for when you will be in grief but don’t know where to start? Use How To Create a Care Tree For Grief to care plan for a current or future time of grief and explore and what support would be useful to you!

a zine for those currently in grief (or planning for future grief) looking to:

explore what they need and what support could look like

make a care plan

plan for an upcoming transition or significant event (birth, death, moving)

reconnect to a care practice

have ideas to offer when someone asks what they need

Table Of Contents

  • Part 1: Trunk | The Focus

    The grief experience you are care planning around

  • Part 2: Roots | The Context

    The history, beliefs, values and desires you are holding around your grief experience

  • Part 3: Branches | The What and Where

    The specific experiences you need support with, the support categories and needs that apply to you, and the avenues of support that are available to you

  • Part 4: The How

    The specific support ideas that you can share with others and use to create a formal care plan (if applicable)

  • Part 5: Clouds | Bonuses

    Things that would not be supportive on your care journey, and how to make a formal care plan

The Care Tree

A visual tool that can be printed and used to document your responses to the prompts presented in this zine. This will give you a birds eye view of what you’re needing support with and what support could look like. You can also draw your own on any piece of paper; it’s a mind map in the general shape of a tree!

Use this zine to care plan for any of the following grief experiences:

Grieving a death, such as a loved one, pet, valued community member, coworker, etc.

Grieving injustice, oppression, or a part of/the whole polycrisis (the intersecting crises of the global climate crisis, genocide, state repression, colonization, and all systems of oppression)

Grieving a change in health status or ability, of you or a loved one

Grieving changes or shifts in your relationships (a breakup with a partner, a child moving out of the house, becoming distant with an important friend, shifting family roles or dynamics, etc.)

Grieving long standing relational disconnection (someone you’ve gone no contact with, someone who hurt you, someone who couldn’t meet your needs, etc.)

Grieving harm or trauma you have experienced at any point in life

Grieving major life changes (moving, entering adulthood, aging, getting married, becoming a parent)

Grieving your own eventual death

 

Resources

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Looking for specific care tree templates around a specific event or transition? Stay tuned for releases of the following specific care tree guides: death, labor/birth, and postpartum.