*We had a great chat with Ellen recently and we're really interested to explore further around organisational grief. Thanks Ellen for including us in this lovely piece.* You can find the original piece here: https://medium.com/@ellen_78906/on-loss-and-grief-f15d46537ac I have a lot of questions at the moment. One of the reoccurring themes has been around how we might balance the need to do some futures thinking with the very present need to grieve and acknowledge loss. Both p

Loss and grief are often very normal emotions, but often ones we try to hide. We can feel forced to be ashamed of our feelings of grief and don’t want to make other people feel uncomfortable. We can also be shut down easily with well meaning, but unhelpful comments like: ‘Try and focus on the positives’, ‘But think of all the things you do have’, ‘You just need to accept it.’ While some of the sentiment of these could be ways of handling the experience of loss, what those phr