The Seven Stages of Grieving is a poignant monologue on Aboriginal grieving, stories of tragedy and survival of the Australian First Nations. As my friend said yesterday after the play, “we cannot even imagine the depth of the grief Aboriginal people are enduring”. How can we, non-Aboriginal Australians step into their shoes? How can we encompass the extent and the depth of such a disturbing trauma? How can we, ordinary people, contribute to the healing of this trauma in our