Do you long to:

Be held by community through your troubles?

Set down some of the weight you are carrying?

Lift the shame and taboo around the expression of emotion?

Feel the support of community, nature and the unseen?

Build resilience and resourcefulness to navigate these troubled times?

Become more wildly yourself?

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What is Grief?

Grief touches all of our lives. Many of us have lost someone we loved, experience loneliness, felt the weight of ancestral burdens or struggled to face the harsh realities of this world. Grief can take many forms: sorrow, anger, shame or fear. When unexpressed it can harden the heart into numbness, depression, bitterness or resentment. The expression of grief has become taboo in our culture and so we have become alone with it. In exiling grief, we also exile its innate intelligence in its ability to point us towards healing. As Martin Prechtel puts it, “Grief is praise, because it is the natural way that love honours what it misses”. Love and grief are two sides of the same coin. In regaining our ability to grieve we also regain our ability to live and love fully. This talk does a great job of elaborating on this, and we would highly recommend listening to it before attending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6h3JNOCTYc.

 

 

What is Ritual?

"Even the simplest of rituals is a way of acknowledging the unseen, the unspoken-about, the holy, which feeds our lives with its inexhaustible generosity. Ritual restores us to one another and to that grander coherence to which we all belong. Devoting your time to a ritual is like tending to a living bridge between the seen and the unseen, keeping that reciprocity alive." 

~ Toko-pa Turner from "Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home"

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Join us for an evening of writing, expression and beauty making to explore the intelligence and intertwined nature of our grief. 

We will let 

• our tears water new seeds

• the vitality of our rage feed life as does the burning sun

• what’s ready to be shed be composted and become generative soil for the future

 

The container held is informed by the work of Joanna Macy, Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel, Malidoma Some, Rowena Jones and Randy Jones.