On Healing Ground-Communal Grief Retreat

Friday November 21st 6pm-9pm

Saturday November 22nd: 10am – 9pm(ish)

Sunday November 23rd: 10am – 5pm

We carry grief of all kinds. Joy and sorrow are a main staple of our daily life, and we are not meant to carry our suffering in isolation. Come join us for a time of cathartic release and deep connection, to end our cultural norm of isolation.

The ancient wisdom of this grief tending lineage teaches us that our culture is sick not because we grieve too much, but because we don’t grieve enough. We aren’t given permission to fully grieve.

When grief is not processed, it often gets passed down through the generations and can come out in harmful ways. But we can choose differently.  We can reclaim our natural ability to heal alongside one another.

Grief is not something to get over but to be embraced and cherished for the love that it is. It is ok to hurt, we just need each other to collectively hold that hurt and support one another to carry what we cannot carry alone. Sometimes we can get stagnate and drown in our grief because we aren’t given a way and a community to allow it to move through us.

This medicine helps us regain our interconnectivity. This being human is no easy task and part of our challenge in life is learning to be more human. To celebrate the full range of our human experience and that means our deep sorrow. But touching on that agony is often scary and why we need companions to journey with us through the tunnel of grief until we come out the other side.

The ritual includes talking circles, singing and drumming, poetry, movement, practice in sacred listening, witnessing and being witnessed, ceremony, sharing food and quiet time. The heart of the retreat is a ceremony inspired by Sobonfu Somé and shared by Pacific Healing Circles.