Who we are
We are a nonprofit organization that seeks to support healthy grieving through education, fly fishing, and fly fishing activities.
We began as a vision of our founder, Rick Gillert, an Anglican Priest and hospice chaplain. He noticed that there was a need for alternative ways to assist in the grieving process. Traditional grief groups work fine for many, but not for everyone.
A Different Way to Grieve
Instrumental Grieving is a natural way of grieving that is more characterized by thinking and doing things. It focusses less on emotions and more on understanding. Instrumental grievers tend to process through physical activity. They tend to focus more on problem solving.
Many friends and family can misunderstand this type of grieving, thinking that the griever is being busy in order to avoid the grief. This can be the case, but not always. We believe that fly fishing can be a healthy way to engage in instrumental grieving. Along with targeted education, we hope to assist in a strategy of grieving that is more in line with the way that instrumental grievers process their grief.