#11: Upcoming grief spaces
I'm co-facilitating two few grief spaces in June and July, come join!
Hello there,
I write this on the train home from London, where I spent yesterday facilitating a celebration and grief ceremony for a colleague who is facing the end of her life, supporting her and close colleagues to say goodbye to her career. A beautiful experience that I was honoured to host.
I am co-facilitating two grief spaces in June and July, supporting my grief tending teacher
. Perhaps you’ll join us?Grief tending in community short workshop, 11th June
About Grief Tending in Community short workshops:
“Held on Zoom, these are 4 hours long, and give a rich taste of shared grief tending. Many have been suprised at the depth of expression and witnessing that is reached in these sessions – perhaps a testament to how natural shared grief tending is for us.
Each session includes calling in support, building safety and trust; stirring and connecting to grief; a ceremony or practice to express, witness and share grief; time for soothing and integration, and preparing to return.
Facilitated by Sophy, unless shown otherwise, with a skilled team
Cost: £40 – £75
Low cost spaces are always available – just get in touch, or let us know on your booking form what is affordable for you.”
The booking form is here, other dates are available if you can’t make 11th June (I am only co-facilitating 11th June). Note: this grief workshop is for any and all griefs and losses that you may be bringing (for example, chronic illness, bereavement, climate grief etc).
Tending our Grief for the World online journey, Centre for Climate Psychology, 9th July
The Centre for Climate Psychology “helps people and organisations develop core emotional, relational and systemic competencies in an age of breakdown, so that we can think, sense and embody new ways of knowing”.
Tending to our grief amid collapse is, I believe, one of the essential competencies of this century. More information and booking here:
“Held by grief tender Sophy Banks, “Tending to Our Grief for the World” is an online journey to a space of expressing and witnessing the feelings which arise in response to these times.
Whether you're impacted by injustice, violence, environmental destruction or harm, we invite you to take time to tend to what you are carrying, in the company of other caring people.
Taking time to build trust, we will invite our truth, and welcome the range of emotions that naturally arise when we witness injustice, violence and harm to any part of the living web of life. This can bring a sense of deeper connection to self, to others in the circle, and to our sense of aliveness and care for the world.”