The experience of grieving is one we all share, yet seldom do we grieve together.

As with many other practices in the western world: banking, education, therapy; grieving is privatized. We have lost indigenous practices of grieving together. We discover the impossibility of trying to contain the grief ourselves while releasing it at the same time. When we grieve together, we find we are not alone in our despair. We are welcomed and held in community.

In the Meeting Grief workshop and ritual events, Kim partners with Linda Anne Goulet, a certified End of Life Doula and Tai Chi/Qigong instructor to work through the 5 Gates of Grief as outlined by Francis Weller, FrancisWeller.net. At each gate, each entry point into the hall of sorrows, participants will write, share and learn an accompanying movement practice.

The intention of these workshops is to provide a safe container to explore and to recognize how feelings of grief present in the body, how they arise, make themselves known and how they fade away. We will not eliminate grief, nor analyze it clinically or critically, rather we will become curious about it, sit with it, and move with it. In one another’s company we become a bit more familiar with and fluent in grief’s particular soul language, and in doing so, create a bit more ease and space in our hearts.

Private offerings

Linda Anne and Kim are also available to facilitate workshops for private groups, such as therapists, caregivers, bereavement groups and first responders. Please contact us below for further information.