About
Navigating the Wilderness is a consultancy focused on improving how organisations and communities understand and respond to grief. We use research, coproduction and systems-focused methods to help people design practices, strategies and services that reflect the realities their communities are carrying.
We support organisations to understand how grief shapes their people, places and decision-making.
We develop grief-literate practices through training, research and consultancy.
We work alongside communities to surface lived experience and build equitable responses.
We strengthen organisational capacity to work with endings, change and loss at a systemic level.
Context-specific: We examine how grief moves through your systems, policies and practices.
Evidence-led: We draw on research, public health insight and lived experience.
Participatory: We work with the people affected, not just on their behalf.
Practical: We translate insight into manageable actions that support real-world change.
About Navigating the Wilderness
Who We Are
Navigating the Wilderness is a community-rooted consultancy focused on strengthening how organisations, services and communities understand and respond to grief.
We work at the intersection of grief literacy, systems change, lived experience and community research.
We are a Community Interest Company, established to benefit people in Birmingham who have experienced, are experiencing, or will experience grief in their lives, workplaces and communities.
What We Do
We help organisations understand how grief interacts with the conditions people live and work within, and what this means for their policies, cultures and decision-making.
Our work includes:
Reviewing practice, policy and organisational culture
Designing and delivering grief literacy training
Conducting research with lived experience at the centre
Supporting teams through consultancy, supervision and reflective practice
Helping organisations embed long-term, equitable approaches to grief
Our Board
Our Board provides governance, accountability and strategic oversight.
They ensure our work remains aligned with our community purpose and that our programmes deliver public benefit.
The Board:
Upholds our social mission and community accountability
Supports ethical, transparent decision-making
Brings expertise across health, community work, research, public policy and lived experience
Guides long-term planning and organisational development
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Our Community Purpose
As a CIC, our work is shaped by the priorities of people in Birmingham who live with grief in its many forms.
We commit to:
Designing work that reflects community experience
Ensuring our programmes are accessible and relevant
Using participatory and co-produced approaches
Returning insights, resources and opportunities to the community
Maintaining transparency about how we use public and commissioned funds
How We Work
We use a range of methods to support organisations, including:
Co-production
Lived experience engagement
Narrative and systems-oriented approaches
Community research
Creative and arts-based methods
Training, facilitation and reflective spaces
Our approach is practical, relational and rooted in the conditions that shape people’s lives.
Want to work with us?
If you would like to explore how we can support your organisation or community:
Book a discovery call
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