January 2024 to April 2024 a group of people came together to sit in silence together for an ill friend on the intensive care of the Erasmuc MC hospital. Each took with them an object, a text, a flower that reminded them of her, to connect to her. These connections were placed in the center of the mediation space. Each person came with their own meditation practice: vipassana, zen, Chinese buddhism, body-related practices, or with no experience at all. There were silent sittings, metta mediations, a reading of a sutra of 2.5 hours with breaks for tea and soup, a body scan on grief. The silent heartspace that was created each time was to support and to connect to our ill friend, but of course at the same time it was a support to ourselves.