Team

Bilal Nasim

Bilal is a facilitator, trainer and artist exploring what it means to be alive and our relationship with death. Bilal is an experienced Grief Tender and has been holding grief spaces since 2018, including workshops aimed specifically for POC and those identifying as men. Bilal hosts workshops on confronting death, Death Cafe‘s, and is training as a death doula with Red Tent End Of Life Doulas. Bilal is a senior leader at Mycelium, delivering award winning programmes on personal resilience, inclusive leadership and workplace culture.

Sarah Pletts

Sarah is an experienced facilitator. She has been holding groups for people experiencing grief since 2019. She brings a holistic approach, which includes an awareness of the body, mind and emotions. She has experienced and recovered from chronic illness, and has got to know loss through the deaths of parents and friends. After years of care responsibilities, she has learned how important it is to be kind – for others, and for ourselves. She has a background in art, and creates events that include beauty, poetry and singing. You can find her hand-drawn animated videos which show more about her Grief Tending approach here. She also teaches on the ‘Apprenticing to Grief’ training. She lives in London, where she walks every day, enjoying wildlife and making friends with squirrels.

Tony Pletts

Tony has been facilitating Grief Tending workshops since 2019. Elsewhere, Tony founded his art direction & construction company Einstein’s Octopus in 1987, a flexible business that’s allowed other creative paths. Tony’s made programmes for BBC Radio 4 (his North Korean series was SONY nominated), is a keen photographer (clients include the Chemical Brothers) and is working on two books. He is trustee of WAYout, a charity that works with street youth in Sierra Leone. Tony is a dancer, a father, a performer, an explorer of both interior & exterior worlds – a lover of life in all of its complexities. A rich and varied past has exposed Tony to the teachings of grief and the opportunities it offers for connection and transformation.

Aama Sade

AamaSade is a Sangoma ceremonialist, an inspiring storyteller and creative alchemist. She was a member of Sobonfu Some’s Ancestral Village; is a funeral celebrant and holds space for end of life traditional practices. She is grounded in community with the aim to “Raise the vibration of our global village”. She facilitates ceremonies and offers grief support for her local projects Poetry4Grenfell, MAG and Tell It Parents. Living in London she travels nationwide to create ceremony from soul percussive expression; to spiritual connections with individuals and groups. AamaSade has been a grief facilitator since 2015 and joined the grief tending network during covid. She enjoys open-air swimming and nature walks.

Sarah Vero

Sarah is a science of wellbeing communicator, campaigner and group facilitator. For the past nine years, she has led meaningful group experiences, events, workshops, rituals, and transformational spaces. She provides embodied, practical tools underpinned by evidence-based frameworks that offer ways to get closer to what it means to be human. She has been described as a ‘feeling leader’. Sarah completed Apprenticing to Grief with Sophy Banks and Jeremy Thres in 2021. She completed a training in sound healing with the Yoga of Sound in Spring 2017. She also trained in Collaborative Vocal Improvisation with Briony Greenhill in 2022, completed Authentic Revolution’s Authentic Leadership facilitator certification program with Sara Ness in 2022 and completed Mycelium’s Mixed Mental Arts Group Facilitator Program twice, in 2018 and 2020.

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