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Week of May 23-28, 2010
The Gifts of Grief
Nancee Sobonya
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Steve Waldrip
I saw Grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, "It tastes sweet, does it not?" "You've caught me," Grief answered, "and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?"
-Rumi
Explore the powerful and mysterious nature of grief. After viewing Nancee Sobonya's film, The Gifts of Grief, we inquire into our relationship to loss and its potential gifts. In the film, Isabel Allende and six other remarkable people share their journeys through their personal losses. Each come to different realizations of the gifts they have gained by living with grief.
"Because each loss is unique, our grief can be experienced in a variety of ways," write the leaders. "Loss is also universal, even though people often describe feeling alone or on a new journey without a map. In this workshop we discover how to navigate this new terrain and orient to that light inside that can draw us forward. We explore various outer resources that sustain us, as well as those inner places where we find strength, love, connection and support. What are we learning from our losses? This question, along with others, is asked as we explore the possibility that grief, while very painful, can also be a doorway to growth, insight and transformation.
"There will be opportunity to go through this doorway and delve into the mysterious depths of grief, personally and collectively. Through the sharing of our personal stories, meditation, poetry, artwork, movement/yoga, and ceremony, we create an environment in which our grief will be honored and held as sacred. Everyone is encouraged to bring photos and other objects of remembrances to place on a group altar that we will create in the course of the workshop to honor our losses."
CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.
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