Biography
Dr. Valerie M. Grissom, MDiv, DWS, is a pastor and worship leader near Seattle, WA. She serves as Chair of the InterGenerate Team (www.intergenerateconference.com). Valerie is the editor of All Ages Becoming: Intergenerational Practice in the Formation of God’s People. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for Imagining Worship with Kids (imaginingworshipwithkids.com) and also is the Project Coordinator for the IYS Story Project (https://www.intergenerateconference.com/iys-project). She also is conducting ongoing research, which has included interviewing over 41 people on Lament with Children and Youth in Worship and Daily Life. To find out more about Valerie’s research, writing, speaking, coaching, and mentoring regarding intergenerational and intercultural worship, visit valeriemgrissom.com.
Workshops
Lament with Children in Worship and Daily Life
Children regularly experience loss, trauma, transition, disappointment, grief, even bullying, violence, racial injustice, poverty, and discrimination. Lament is a spiritual practice of worship that empowers children to address grief and loss with their faith communities, expressing their deepest emotions in authentic relational faith to God, in worship and in daily life. This workshop seeks to equip ministry leaders with biblical language and foundations for enabling children to engage in embodied, multisensory, multimodal practices of lament, through rhythms and rituals, in worship and daily life.
Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 10:30 – 11:30am
Location | 8
Explore & Enrich
Practicing Lament WITH Children: Stations of Lament for All Ages that Utilize Multisensory, Multimodal Embodied Practices of Lament
Come experience and engage in intergenerational multisensory stations of lament that can be facilitated in worship and daily life.
Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15 – 2pm
Location | 4
