A Glossary for Generation Grief
A list of terms, ideas, concepts, and words for sad times
An end-of-the-year The New Yorker article proposed some entertaining epithets for our current decade: the terrible twenties; the new dark ages; the assholocene.
And indeed, if something is bad right now, it’s probably rising: sea levels, inflation, violent conflict, partisanship, unemployment, fascist populism, income inequality. The tally of grievances has definitely gotten longer, and it seem as though we’re living through a particularly sad time.
Welcome to Generation Grief.
There is a silver lining amid all this doom and gloom: We’re getting a little better at talking about grief. And there’s been a shift of attitude in the business world, too, with more and more companies initiating discussions on how to bring grief-informed practices to their workplace.
At the House of Beautiful Business, we believe that a humane, life-centered business is one that allows us to grieve—not just after a tragic loss, but following the little letdowns and passing sorrows that strike daily and the melancholy and weariness (the Germans call it ‘Weltschmerz’) as we cope with an era defined by loss.
To help us talk about, embrace, and design for grief, we have created a Glossary for Generation Grief: a list of terms, ideas, concepts, and words that might help you think about grief’s role in the contemporary workplace.
For this glossary Tim and the House of Beautiful Business partnered with Joel Fariss and Jacob Simons from the global design firm Gensler, who led an unforgettable session on grief at our festival last year.
Read the glossary
https://lnkd.in/gzK4tzQt