“There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive. Through this, I have come to have a lasting faith in grief.”―Francis Weller

If one thing is guaranteed in this life it is that we will all be touched by grief in many and varied ways. Yet in our society grief is something we are compelled to carry on with, to suppress and move past. It is even something that can breed shame and embarrassment. We are rarely taught, let alone role-modelled, healthy ways to be with and express our grief. Instead convinced that grief is only a moment in time that we move past on some linear colonial timeline. But our grief is not linear, it is not just a moment, not just a feeling, but a relationship that can span a lifetime.

Tending to our grief is a full-day workshop based on creating relationship with our grief, not trying to fix or move past her.

Through this workshop, we will work with rhythm, melody, and song, we will journey in drum meditation, journal, experience voice work and group singing, and tap into Francis Weller’s ‘5 Gates of grief’ as a tool for accessing the edges of our grief, with acknowledgement of the more recently coined 6th gate of grief that will broaden our sense of self.

We will expand our capacity to bear witness to the grief of the world within and without, re-membering that our greatest healing does not happen in isolation.

ABOUT THE HOSTS

-Siobhán is the creatress and facilitator of Kindred Womancraft which aims to reconnect women with their truth, power, and purpose. Facilitating one-on-one work and creating events that nourish a deeper way of being with the world as a doorway into belonging. Siobhan has many years of experience in holding sacred spaces and ceremonies. Both individually supporting women through pregnancy birth and postpartum, and collectively, in Women's Circles, Workshops & Retreats.She provides soul-centric and earth-based care in all that she does.

-Allison is a former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years who left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio-cultural change. Allison provides support and education around the topics of childhood brain development and the use of music as a regulatory tool. Being an autistic person herself, Allison works within a trauma informed and neuro affirming framework sharing her lived experience of autism openly within her work with her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

->>We have another event 'Tending to Our Rage' happening the day before this on the 26th July. We have made these two events to complement each other and created a discount code for those booking into both. Use code TENDING at check out if booking both workshops. You can find more details here https://events.humanitix.com/t...