Honoring Grief:
IFS, Somatics & Sacred Grief
Grieving is a Sacred Rite of Passage
We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.
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~ Mary Oliver, Evidence
An online experiential two parts workshop designed to deepen your understanding of grief, to allow you to reconnect with your loss in new ways, and to invite you to embody tools and skills to move through the process.
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As we welcome all of our grieving parts and utilize the wisdom of our living bodies, we will explore grief’s essential interwovenness with gratitude, love, compassion, and vitality.
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This workshop is created for anyone who is asking to fully embrace life through navigating the terrains of grief, as well as for those of us supporting others in their honored process.
Western cultures have been putting grief in the back room. Avoidance, misperceptions and anxiousness still overclouds the sacred healing path of honoring loss and bereavement. Grief is a natural part of life, of being human. It is the common thread that keeps us connected. It is a process that is both personal and universal.
Grieving a loss or an absence is a powerful step towards healing.
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As we navigate the great mystery of loss, it may serve as an invitation to love more deeply, to express more fully, to live in a more present and aware way. Grief is the northern star and the source of deep healing, joy, gratitude and celebration of life. A critical part of the transformation is learning how to grief. Learning we can grieve in the light. Knowing the power of doing our honored grieving work in community. Knowing grieving is not a taboo, it is a rite of passage.
Grief may also come in a form of grieving what we never had. Grieving the absence of something you needed or wanted and didn’t receive is a powerful step towards healing.
To experience life fully requires us to move through the portal of experiencing death fully.
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This workshop is created for anyone who is asking to fully embrace life through navigating the terrains of grief, as well as for those of us supporting others in their honored process.
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I welcome you to a space of sacredness, beauty and deep holding which offers the invitation to come more alive.
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“Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost,
is in its self the greatest praise we could ever give them.
Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
Martín Prechtel
Workshop cariculum
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Honored Grief - your sacred gateway to forgiveness, liberation and joy
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The five gates of grief
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IFS - Grief as a constellation of "part"s around the experiences of loss
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Somatics - Grief as held and expressed in our living bodies
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Experiential explorations and applications
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Tools and resources to honor and carry through our grief
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Small group shares and witnessing​
This two-parts workshop is held online via Zoom
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1st session: Friday, Aug 9th @ 7-9am HT
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2nd session: Friday, Aug 23rd @ 7-9am HT