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Join the Burlington Grief Movement Community
This Grief Movement Community has already begun its eight-week experience and is closed to new enrollment.
We're so glad you found us, though, and we’re deeply sorry for the loss that brings you here. We know how much it can take to seek out support and consider joining this community, and we’re grateful you’ve found your way to E-Motion. We’d love to stay connected and help you find a nourishing, supportive place within our community.
Please complete our interest form and select “I’d like to hear about future Grief Movement Communities.” We’ll let you know as soon as new groups or opportunities become available.
We believe that movement is medicine. Community is everything. And that no one should have to grieve alone.
Interested in joining the Grief Movement Community? Please read below for more details on what to expect and how to join.
Important Details About This Group
City: Burlington, VT
Loss Type: This group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a person.
Dates: September 20 - November 8 (Sundays)
Group Movement: Walking
Culminating Event: The group will be experiencing a labyrinth together (and a possible potluck)
Gathering Location: The facilitator will share with the group
E-Motion Volunteer Facilitator: Francesca Arnoldy and Beth Peters (bio provided below)
To express your interest in joining the group, please fill out the interest form linked below.
The Grief Movement Community Experience
About This Group
The Grief Movement Community is a free, 8-week, in-person experience for people living with life-disrupting loss. It combines movement—walking, hiking, and/or running—with intentional grief support, held in community with others who get it. As a group, you'll work toward a shared distance goal over the 8 weeks — the distance and pace don't matter, what matters is working toward the goal together. Each group includes 10–20 grievers and is guided by a trained E-Motion Facilitator. The group meets weekly, and participants are expected to attend at least 75% of gatherings.
What To Expect
Weekly Gatherings: Each week, your group comes together in person. Every gathering opens with the E-Motion Sacred Circle — a short, guided ritual that grounds and connects the group, including a naming practice in which each person has the chance to speak the name(s) of those they're moving with. From there, you'll get moving together. Every week, you’ll move a little bit further towards your group’s shared distance goal.
Grief + Movement Resources: Between gatherings, you'll receive notes from your Facilitator and the E-Motion Team — grief concepts, reflection questions, songs, poems, and other nourishing content to sit and move with during the week. You'll also receive our Movement Companion, a collection of resources designed to support you in building a steady movement practice. All of this content is created for grievers, by grievers. Take what resonates, and leave what doesn't — these offerings are simply here to support you in whatever way feels most helpful.
A Culminating Gathering: Every group comes together at the end to complete their shared distance goal and honor how far they've come. Two things vary from group to group: the distance, which reflects the goal you've set together, and the format — some groups join an existing local race, while others create their own special gathering to mark the moment. Your Facilitator will share what's planned as your experience unfolds.
A Community of Grievers Who Get It: Grief can be incredibly isolating. This group exists so you don't have to move with loss alone.
Interested in joining the group?
This Grief Movement Community has already begun its eight-week experience and is closed to new enrollment.
We're so glad you found us, though, and we’re deeply sorry for the loss that brings you here. We know how much it can take to seek out support and consider joining this community, and we’re grateful you’ve found your way to E-Motion. We’d love to stay connected and help you find a nourishing, supportive place within our community.
Please complete our interest form and select “I’d like to hear about future Grief Movement Communities.” We’ll let you know as soon as new groups or opportunities become available.
Why Join the Grief Movement Community? Words From Our Community
“Grief can often feel isolating, but walking side by side in a supportive environment created space for participants to share their experiences, emotions, and memories without judgment. The simple act of walking together often made difficult conversations feel more natural and accessible, allowing people to process their grief at their own pace.” — Facilitator, Massachusetts
“[Movement, Community, and Ritual] were critical in forming trust and honoring my son. I absolutely need this group. I need to move in nature with others who understand the depth of grief and don’t judge.” — Participant, Connecticut
“This was a safe and pleasant way to spend time with others who are on a grief journey. I appreciated that the rituals were the same every week, and the ways we came together to shift from everyday life into a unique (and sacred) circle/group” — Participant, Vermont
“The consistency of meeting once a week created a strong, loving community and helped regulate my routine.” — Participant, Texas
“I feel like it’s the best thing I’ve done for my grief.” — Facilitator, Connecticut
Meet The E-Motion Facilitators
Meet Beth
Beth is a trained End-of-Life Doula and Human Resources consultant who has lived and worked in the Burlington Area for 30+ years. After the unexpected passing of her father in 2023, soul searching led Beth to the doula course through UVM.
In late 2025 both Beth’s mother and grandmother passed away. They lived together, she had been the primary care coordinator and healthcare advocate for both of them over the course of several years, and navigated that largely long-distance between Vermont and Maine. From these experiences Beth developed a conviction that she would somehow help identify and develop solutions for those in similar situations.
This led to Beth becoming a Community Care Provider for Tuktu Care, an organization new to the Burlington area that focuses on community-powered care by providing on-demand support for seniors and family caregivers. This, and her discovery of the E-Motion Community, are two ways that Beth has committed to helping others navigate the challenges that face many of us today. Afterall, we need to look out for each other, both in life and as we ride the waves of grief.
Meet Francesca
Francesca Lynn Arnoldy has been a community doula since 2009, supporting people through birth, death, and loss. She is the author of numerous titles on mortality awareness and grief healing, and she's a published researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab. Francesca runs the Death Literacy Educator Course & Community as well as The Community Grief Literacy Project. She regularly writes and presents on life-and-death topics with hopes of encouraging people to support one another through times of intensity. On a personal level, she's grieving the recent loss of her father who joined her growing collective of ancestors this year.
About E-Motion Inc.
E-Motion Inc. is a non-profit founded by Myra Sack after the death of her daughter, Havi, in 2021. Our mission is to transform how the world shows up for each other through grief and loss, so no one grieves alone. Our grief-informed approach is grounded in three core elements: movement, community, and ritual.
Our core program, the Grief Movement Community, is a free, peer-led, movement-based grief experience for people living with life-disrupting loss. We currently have Grief Movement Communities in 50+ cities across the country — and we envision bringing Grief Movement Communities to cities everywhere.
If the Grief Movement Community isn’t the right fit for you right now, we also invite you to consider joining our monthly Virtual Sacred Circles led by the E-Motion Inc. Team. Learn more and sign up on our website here.
To learn more about our mission, please visit our website here. Follow us on Instagram here and Facebook here.
Thank you for moving with us.
We are honored to have you as part of this growing community of care.