Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
One Spirit Elective Credit: 1.0
What is Grief? How do we navigate its impact on us?
Coming through the "time of COVID," many of us might imagine that we have done all the connecting with loss that we ever thought to do in a lifetime. Our broader culture runs from even the mention of grief, urging that we "get through" or "get over" grief. In response and in the rush to push it out of the way, grief has gone underground and leaks out in physical maladies, addictive and self-defeating behaviors, difficulties with interpersonal relationships, and damage to our sense of self.
In this workshop, using Francis Weller's 5 Gates framework, participants will be able to:
Be invited to see grief as a sacred practice
Call up cultures and traditions in the expression of grief
Enhance our engagement with our own life and that of our communities and ancestors by "doing the work" of befriending grief
Engage in experiential practices during the class, and maintain the container between Saturday and Sunday sessions, by doing some work in the in-between hours of this course
Experience a container of deep sharing, inquiry, with space to be heard and supported.
FACULTY:
Rev. Leslie Reambeault
Rev. Leslie Reambeault is a 2012 Graduate of One Spirit Seminary, where she is now a Dean, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Working as a clinician with trauma means working with grief and loss; walking and ministering with any other is the repeated opportunity for encountering the ongoing experiences of loss that make up human life. Remembering Gibran's words that "you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy....[and] the deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain...," this day together will use a sampler of life's offering of loss to move into grief and grieving. Grief practices are profoundly spiritual and the day will allow us to be in the deep Presence of Spirit. The time together will include the context of Francis Weller's lifetime work with grief; practices from group work; and, the creation of ritual in this session. No human is spared from loss; so many try to avoid grief and end up numb or captive of distractions; let's learn and relearn how to do this differently.