community Grief retreat

Honoring Our Grief and Gratitude with Rituals of Renewal

Ages 18+ | Dec. 7-8th, 2024 | Return to Community Workshops & Events

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In many traditional cultures, grief rituals are considered the “glue” of connection that holds the community together. They offer us one of the most powerful means for reweaving our connection and belonging to ourselves, each other, and all our relations.

Join us as we honor the sacredness of our grief and gratitude through talking circles, singing, poetry, movement, practice in sacred listening, ceremony, sharing food, and some quiet time in nature. The heart of our time together will include a sacred ritual inspired by the work of Sobonfu Some and Malidoma Some.

Our work is also inspired by Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief, which help us to welcome in all forms of grief we may be carrying, including:

Everything we love we will lose
The places that have not known love
The sorrows of the world
The things we cannot even name that we ache for
Intergenerational or ancestral grief

The spiritual framework for this ritual includes time-honored and earth-based modalities, utilizing the power of drumming and chanting, the belief that the natural world is a rich place of interconnection with all our relations, and the importance of working with the unseen realms, including our ancestors.

You can learn more about community grief work at Northwest Grief Tending.

We invite you to lean in with us as we remember how to grieve in community. There is no grief too big or too small to be worthy of welcome here.

12 participant minimum and 18 participant max

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