{"id":1291,"date":"2025-11-30T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/griefhouse.community\/?page_id=1291"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:10:39","slug":"o-nas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/griefhouse.community\/en\/o-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who we are<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw House of Serenity - Grief House Warsaw<\/span> \u2013 \u0414\u0456\u043c \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0433\u0448\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f<\/span><\/strong> is a community-based space of grief support for people from different cultures. We create a place where you can come with your grief\/loss \u2013 no matter how much time has passed, what your relationship was like, where you come from, or how people in your community usually speak about death. We are not a mental health clinic or a therapy office. We are a home for meetings, conversations, shared rituals, and small gestures of care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our mission<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our mission is the social normalisation of grief<\/strong>. We want people in grief not to be left alone \u2013 especially when they are far from their family home, their loved ones, or the language they feel most at home in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our mission also includes restoring grief to public and social life<\/strong>. We want conversations about loss not to be a taboo that you must \u201cget over quickly and quietly\u201d, but a recognised part of community life. That\u2019s why we combine emotional support with psychoeducation, creative activities, body-based work and shared rituals \u2013 so that we can gradually rebuild a social \u201cuser manual\u201d for grief that we have lost in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our mission also includes giving bereavement a place in society<\/strong>. We want the conversation about loss not to be a taboo that has to be \u201elived through quickly and quietly\u201d, but a recognised part of community life. That is why we combine emotional support with psychoeducation, creative activities, bodywork and communal rituals - so as to gradually rebuild the social \u201einstruction manual\u201d for bereavement that has been lost in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the longer term, our ambition is for the Grief House Warsaw model to be replicated<\/strong> in other cities<\/strong> \u2013 so that in different parts of Poland (and perhaps one day beyond) local spaces can emerge where communities learn to support people in grief before specialist intervention becomes necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our values<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Community<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We believe that grief should not be lived through alone. Community \u2013 even a small, temporary one \u2013 is one of the most important resources that helps us in this difficult time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Respect for diversity<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We welcome people from different countries and cultures, carrying different stories. We respect different languages, worldviews, traditions and ways of grieving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Safety and voluntariness<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We ensure clear guidelines, confidentiality, and that each person can decide for themselves how much they want to engage in the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gentleness instead of pressure<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t require you to \u201cclose the chapter\u201d, \u201cwork through everything\u201d, or \u201creturn quickly to your old life\u201d. We recognise that grief is a process with its own rhythm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Accessibility<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We try to make the Grief House Warsaw as accessible as possible \u2013 linguistically, financially, and in terms of meeting formats. We run sessions in Polish, English and Ukrainian. During the pilot period, participation is free of charge thanks to support from European Union funds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our approach to grief and bereavement<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We base our work on contemporary knowledge about grief, but we speak about it in clear, simple language.
We believe that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n