8-Week Workshop: Gates of Grief
About the Workshop
This 8-week workshop will combine the perspective of end-of-life reflections, the gates of grief based on the work of Francis Weller in his book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow,” and an additional 6th gate from the work of Sophy Banks.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Week 1: Group foundation and introductions | Dec 1st
Week 2: First Gate; Everything we love we will lose | Dec 8th
Week 3: Second Gate; The places that have not known love | Dec 15th
Week 4: Third Gate; The sorrows of the world | Dec 22nd
Week 5: Fourth Gate; What we expected and did not receive | Dec 29th
Week 6: Fifth Gate; Ancestral grief | Jan 5th
Week 7: Sixth Gate; The harms we’ve caused | Jan 12th
Week 8: Closing ritual and final reflections | Jan 19th
Utilizing the powerful tools of storytelling, bearing witness, reflective writing, somatic expression, and community ritual, we will call forth stories of love and loss while held within the healing embrace of community. Come experience the joy that is found when sorrow has been made sacred.
Details
We meet every week for 8 weeks.
Sun, Dec 1, 2024 - Sun, Jan 19, 2025
Total workshop fee: $250 per person
- REGISTRATION IS CLOSED -
Note: Each session meets from 2-4pm US eastern time. All sessions will be recorded and available for playback.
Hosted by Rebecca Churt
Founder of Death Doula Services of the Berkshires and The Grievery, Rebecca is a certified Death Doula, trained as a grief guide and ritualist under Francis Weller practicing buddhist and spent several months in a contemplative residency at Upaya Zen Center out in Santa Fe, NM.
Anyone, everyone.
Anyone who is experiencing grief, or who has experienced grief. Whether because of the death of a loved one, a relationship break up, health challenge, or any other loss or unmet longing.
This workshop will be hosted virtually. Upon payment you'll be enrolled in the workshop. Zoom links will be sent 1 day before each session start. You'll also receive reminders for each week's session.
While this work is based on the book "The Wild Edge of Sorrow" it is not required that you read the book beforehand. I will give you a thorough review of all of the gates. That said, I do highly recommend that you read it at some point ... it's a staple in my personal library.
Contact me if you want to review more details about the workshop.
This is the work of our times. Grief and loss will be our constant companions. It is up to us to become skillful in the ways that keep our faces turned into the winds of sorrow.
Francis Weller
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