Inner City Bliss

It reframes crisis response (moving from overt action to generative engagement with rupture and emergence), offers tangible spiritual tools (slowing down, ritualizing grief, re-asking questions, tending small relational openings) and is community-oriented (speaks directly to the capacities spiritual leaders need when guiding communities through uncertainty, grief, and breakdown). - Inès Mazas

Encourages spiritual leaders to anchor themselves in lineage work, not just personal insight. Suggests structures for group coherence and generational resilience—not only individual wellness. - Inès Mazas

Shiva Circle, a project of Shomer Collective, invites you to explore how this deeply beneficial practice enables mourners to sit with their grief, be cared for by a circle of comfort, and retreat from the responsibilities of daily life during the most heightened period of mourning. Download this guide to learn about the meaning of sitting shiva and the traditions for Jewish mourning rituals.