By Anne Marie Mahoney What should a bereavement support group and town government have in common? A deep respect for participants’ experience of loss. I do bereavement work, facilitating programs on coping with grief and loss in church settings and the Beech Street Center. Through Boston College, I teach other facilitators how to lead bereavement programs. How is this work relevant to Belmont politics? Reflecting on the divisive controversies over the naming of the new skating rink and the Belmont Center overlay zoning proposal, I realized that many speaking out on these issues were acting from a place of loss. [READ MORE]