Grief School: Befriending Endings (6-week course)
With loss feeling endless and ever-compounding, rather than just rare one-off experiences, we know we need different paradigms and practices for moving forward. Yet it’s still so easy to get stuck in thinking that we must “fully heal”, eradicate bad feelings, shield ourselves from loss, or destroy anything that threatens our ideals. And this is only fueling more separation, silo-ing, and isolation.
What is the repair process with ourselves and each other amidst an epidemic of loneliness, when so many have been taught to hide or ignore loss, and where there’s so much avoidance of facing endings? This is where grieving comes in. And we get to explore it together.
With Kwonyin (CATHARSIS) and Ari Simon (Grief at Work), you will be guided through a six-week journey of befriending endings, supporting yourself and others in grieving, releasing, reconfiguring, and integrating. You will receive teachings, gentle guidance, and group practices – unblocking and untangling what stands in the way of working with wounds, being with all the difficulty of what is, and leading with love.
This course will equip you to:
- Repair relationships with yourself and others
- Get intimate with your own unique nonlinear process of grief
- Release pent up pain, rage, fear, and despair (cuz it’s in there!)
- Break repressive patterns of feeling like a failure for being where you are
- Turn disappointment into self-forgiveness
- Resist the lure of the disagreement-to-destroy-each-other pipeline
- Carry love and support others through challenging times
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Grief School testimonials:
"Allowing myself a soft and quiet approach for my grief meant it could come to the surface with out knocking me out. I could sit with it and listen gently. I no longer need to fix it, I could befriend it.” - Gretchen
“Grief School helped me feel more comfortable expressing grief to more people and in more ways.” - Maxwell
"The shadow work component was really powerful. Also connecting with others and learning from the two wonderful teachers. I want to re-watch all of the recordings because there was so much rich information." - Shaina
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THE NEXT 6-WEEK GRIEF SCHOOL JOURNEY STARTS JANUARY 8, 2024.
The course meets on Zoom on Mondays 5p-7p pt / 8p-10p et.
COURSE CONTAINS:
- teachings & tools on grief and loss processing
- meditations
- facilitated role play
- sharing circles and pair & shares
- powerful receiving
- catharsis journeying
- journaling and dialogue prompts
- optional Grief School buddy program
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COURSE SYLLABUS:
- WEEK 1 - GRIEF AS TRUST, TRUSTING IN GRIEF
- WEEK 2 - WHY DOES GRIEF GET A BAD RAP
- WEEK 3 - MOVING TOWARDS PAIN (AS THE NONVIOLENT WAY)
- WEEK 4 - IN THE ENDLESS TERRAIN OF LOSS
- WEEK 5 - FINDING YOUR SIGNPOSTS FOR THE UNKNOWN
- WEEK 6 - YET ANOTHER ENDING (FINAL SESSION)
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PRICING:
$249 $169 early bird pricing available now. Scholarships also available upon request.
