With loss feeling endless and ever-compounding, rather than just rare one-off experiences, we know we need different paradigms and practices for moving forward. Yet it’s still so easy to get stuck in thinking that we must “fully heal”, eradicate bad feelings, shield ourselves from loss, or destroy anything that threatens our ideals. And this is only fueling more separation, silo-ing, and isolation.

What is the repair process with ourselves and each other amidst an epidemic of loneliness, when so many have been taught to hide or ignore loss, and where there’s so much avoidance of facing endings? This is where grieving comes in. And we get to explore it together.

With Kwonyin (CATHARSIS) and Ari Simon (Grief at Work), you will be guided through a six-week journey of befriending endings, supporting yourself and others in grieving, releasing, reconfiguring, and integrating. You will receive teachings, gentle guidance, and group practices – unblocking and untangling what stands in the way of working with wounds, being with all the difficulty of what is, and leading with love.

This course will equip you to:

• Repair relationships with yourself and others

• Get intimate with your own unique nonlinear process of grief

• Release pent up pain, rage, fear, and despair (cuz it’s in there!)

• Break repressive patterns of feeling like a failure for being where you are

• Turn disappointment into self-forgiveness

• Resist the lure of the disagreement-to-destroy-each-other pipeline

• Carry love and support others through challenging times
  

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OUR NEXT 6-WEEK JOURNEY STARTS JANUARY 8, 2024.

The course meets on Zoom on Mondays 5p-7p pt / 8p-10p et.

COURSE CONTAINS:

• teachings & tools on grief and loss processing

• meditations

• facilitated role play

• sharing circles and pair & shares

• powerful receiving

• catharsis journeying

• journaling and dialogue prompts

• optional Grief School buddy program

“Although I am most comfortable processing grief alone, I appreciated how much hearing others discussing similar stories helped me process some of the grief I have been feeling. I also really appreciated the duo Kwonyin and Ari holding space for us to be silent or contribute without any pressure or haste.” - kayla

watch our talk “DISCOMFORT IS THE MEDICINE”

Ari Simon (they/them) is a facilitator, coach, grief care worker, climate policy convener, and founder of Grief at Work – tools and teachings in grief & loss competency for teams, communities, and leaders. 

Through a loss-centering practice, Ari has convened individuals, communities, and teams at intersections of ecological health & climate adaptation, mental & emotional wellbeing, queerness, and grief, death & loss. Ari weaves a background in policy and planning with training in Zen Buddhism, mindfulness, and end-of-life care. They reside in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California and lead workshops across North America and virtually.