Sacred Grief Healing: A Community Ritual for Reclaiming Vitality & Joy

8500 California 9,Ben Lomond CA 95005

29 July, 2022

Description

We live in a grief-heavy culture, land and world. We have lost much of the traditional wisdom about how to move toward our grief, to feel it and process it. Lacking tools and context for befriending grief, we tend to suppress and deny the grief that is in us. This contributes to the stuckness, overwhelm and avoidance so many of us experience, and the unfortunate repetition of cycles of dysfunctional ways of being in our lives and relationships. We are in the times of learning again how to tend to our sacred grief. There is no other way but through. Our grief holds the keys for our most honest and true path of right action, relationship and renewal. If we do not honor and contact our grief we cannot receive the hidden wisdom, power and love awaiting as the essential medicine for these times. Many of us lack a literacy of grief and often fail to recognize how unprocessed grief inhibits our aliveness, purpose, passion and joy. Grief has many faces and expressions: loss, death, transition, unmet needs, unfulfilled dreams, illness, change, failure, betrayal, ancestral traumas, environmental change, social injustice, rupture and violence in our personal relationships, communities, and world. All grief, no matter how big or how small, how old or how new, can be met with kindness, presence and the resource needed for its tending and transformation. Opening to these places with support we can be healed. We recover our inherent resiliency and contact the shared heart of humanity and the dignity of the human spirit. ************************************************************************************************************** In this ritual, you will -Co-create a safe and sacred space in community to honor individual and collective grief. -Learn about different types of grief and ways to identify how it may be showing up in your life. -Expand perspectives on how grief is held in wisdom traditions and indigenous ways. -Express your grief through writing, movement, song, and time in nature. -Experience the healing power of honoring grief by being witnessed and witnessing others grieving without trying to change, fix or solve the grief process. -Open your heart and increase vitality through the liberating energy of forgiveness. -Cultivate a renewed intimacy with yourself and recover the aliveness that is awakened from choosing to honor and embrace grief in your daily life. ************************************************************************************************************** We hold tenderly in our hearts that each being has their own relationship with prosperity and the flow of money. Honoring this diversity, we offer a sliding scale, as well as a benefaction/reparation program specifically for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals who identify financial need and/or an interest in bringing grief healing services into their communities. Please look within your heart and pay what is in alignment with your level of abundance. Sliding Scale Guide: $444- If your yearly income is above $80,000, your payment of $444 helps to sustain the work and assists those who cannot pay the full amount. $333- If your yearly income is between $35,000 and $60,000, your payment of $333 allows us to meet the operating costs and supports the facilitators so they can continue to offer this work. $222- If your yearly income is below $35,000, your payment of $222 (or less, please inquire) allows you to be supported by receiving a discount off the full cost. This is reserved for those in financial need and those that would benefit from reparations. REFUNDS: We are unable to offer refunds but you can transfer your attendance to a future ritual or your registration fee can be donated to someone in need. All are welcome regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity. REGISTER SOON! Space is Limited! ************************************************************************************************************** Friday July 29, 2022 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm Saturday July 30, 2022 9:30 am - 5:00 pm Sunday July 31, 2022. 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Held at Highlands Park Senior Center in Ben Lomond, Ca. Tea and light snacks will be provided. Bring your own lunch for Saturday and Sunday. A refrigerator and microwave are available. Register by sending payment via Venmo @Dana-Schlick, a check payable to Dana Schlick to 550 Water St. Suite F2, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or use the Eventbrite payment system. Please register as soon as possible as we will need to have a minimum amount of folks signed up in order to hold the ritual. If you have any questions, contact Dana Schlick at (831)-515-8262 [email protected] ************************************************************************************************************** COVID Safety: Safety is our utmost priority and we have strict guidelines to protect the health of all attendees. We ask that you take into consideration your own and other people's health concerns regardless of your prior contact with Covid immunity and/or personal health choices. We ask that you be punctual with arrival time to take a rapid test Friday afternoon. The tests will be provided at the door for $13 (at cost) payable via cash or Venmo. It is strongly advised that you limit your contact with others outside of the ritual space to prevent exposure 4 days prior to the event and each day of the event. IF you test positive, you will receive a full refund minus a $50 administrative fee. Masks are optional unless we have a mask mandate at that time. Please do not come if you are feeling ill, or have had any known exposure. ******************************************************************************** 10% of the proceeds for this event will be donated to Wisdom Spring, a non-profit organization founded by Sobonfu Some' building wells and tuition for education.