Ele’s Place archive summary
Original source: Ann Arbor Family · April 1, 2014 · Ann Arbor
Mary Mueting began volunteering with Ele’s Place Ann Arbor in 2009. When Ann Arbor Family profiled her five years later, she described a facilitator’s work in terms of listening. Children might bring questions about the person who died, the time before the death, or something they had been holding onto since.
Mueting gave children room to choose what they wanted to talk about. Activities could open a conversation that had been difficult to begin at home or school, and sometimes the person a child most wanted to hear from was another child in the room.
A parent who later took on that listening role shared her own experience in From a Family Group to Facilitating for Others.