Good Mourning Practice

Alison Avigayil Ramer (she/her) is a spiritual activist and the daughter of an Anglican-Catholic-Quaker mother of English and German descent, and a Jewish Ashkenazi father whose ancestors come from Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. She descends from a long line of missionaries, mercenaries, mystics, and misfits—those who wandered, witnessed and worshipped on this earth.

She has lived her life—the ancestral lands of the Lenape, Duwamish, Ohlone, Chumash, and Palestinian peoples, whose territories have shaped her life, learning, and spiritual path. She is committed to honoring these lineages through relationship, responsibility, and repair.

Alison has been an activist and community organizer since adolescence. She has walked alongside Indigenous leaders and their allies—from Palo Alto to Palestine — and has worked with numerous local and international organizations, governments and companies to this end.

She currently stewards The Social Change Sanctuary, an interspiritual initiative devoted to supporting sacred community formation, collective grief rituals, and the regeneration of life-affirming culture.

She also creates visual art and writing that she shared with the world as a part of her practice of grief and gratitude through her newsletter, Hodaya: A Journal of Grief and Gratitude.

Eva Orbuch is a passionate justice seeker, coach, consultant, and musician. She is a Shomeret Shalom in training (Jewish nonviolence practitioner), a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), and frequently drums and sings for Jewish prayer spaces. She loves to support and coach people in finding their authentic activism, designing rituals for moments of life transition, and she acts as a “Drum Doula,” supporting people to build their relationship with drumming, power, and leadership.

Eva works in a holistic way with individuals, teams, and organizations who are committed to bringing change to their lives or communities, and need help in the process. Her coaching and consulting clients range from entrepreneurs, to managers to new employees, to artists, and change makers.

She has a background as an advocate for educational equity and community organizer, which led her to coach people to finding their own satisfying contributions to the world.

She is a Certified Coactive Coach, and has a B.A. in Urban Studies from Stanford University and a Masters in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University.

She weaves a variety of spiritual practices into her life and coaching, such as renewal Judaism, the Work that Reconnects, danza de luna, mindfulness and meditation, movement, personally designed rituals, and more.