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Offerings - Links to Registration

2019

Calgary - Ancestral Ritual Healing Intensive.
Oct. 4th-6th.

Online - Roots to Resiliency - Therapeutic Skills and Soulful Approaches to Support Others through Grief.
October 13th, 2019.

Victoria - Ancestral Ritual Healing Intensive.
Oct. 25th-27th, 2019.

Victoria - in partnership with UVic Environmental Studies Department
Getting to the Heart of It - Grief and Resilience in the Era of Ecological Crisis
Nov. 5, 19, Dec 3rd, 2019.

Bozeman, Montana - in partnership with the Bozeman Renewal Network
Facilitating Grief - Group Practices and Ritual Skills
Nov 15-17th, 2019.

Courtenay - Ancestral Ritual Healing Workshop
Nov. 30th, 2019.

2020

Online - Of Stone, Bone and Water - Ritual Skills and Ancestral Practices for Grieving.
January 12th - April 2nd, 2020
&
May 10th - July 2nd, 2020

Online - Holding Space for Grief - Spiritual Companionship and Loss
Hosted by Spiritual Directors International. 4 part webinar series. CEU available.
May 5-26th 2020 live calls and recordings available anytime
More info & register

Online - Roots to Resiliency - Therapeutic Skills and Soulful Approaches to Support Others through Grief.
Sept. 18th, 2020. More info & register.

Online - Deathly Matters
Community Conference on Doing Death Better
Oct 31st - Nov 1st, 2020. More Info & Register.

Offerings - Descriptions

If you are interested in bringing one of these offerings, or something similar, to your community or organization. please reach out and let's discuss the possibilities. You can also read more about
training and workshop opportunities here.

Ancestral Ritual Healing 

By coming into relationship with our elevated elder ancestors, we connect with a source of guidance, support and love in our lives and contribute to the healing of inter-generational wounds and patterns. When we claim our ancestral gifts and inheritance, we deepen our belonging in the world, re-enliven our ancestral wisdom and practices, become clearer in our soul's purpose, and become a more wholesome force for personal and collective healing. We also reclaim ancestrally relevant practices for grieving and supporting the rite of passage of death.

Through teaching, experiential practice, ritual, song, movement, and guided trance/visioning, participants will connect with elder ancestral guides to gain insight into lineage gifts and unresolved patterns, and embark on ritual healing of those dead who haven't completed their rite of passage. The training is a trauma-aware, somatics-informed, culturally-inclusive ritual container that embraces the relationship of ancestral reclamation towards personal and cultural healing.

Workshops can be one-day, two-day or three-day offerings. Please reach out to inquire about bringing one to your community or organization.

When Our Heart Breaks Open to Ecological Loss - Community Grief Ritual

The despair that is for the destruction of our other-than-human kin in these times is inescapable. This is a grief that doesn't go away, however it is vital to have ongoing places to release and express this despair if we are to remain open and responsive to meeting the needs of our times.

Ritual within community is one way to provide a transformative container to meet our heartbreak and allow its expression and release; to allow some of the reservoir to flow.  If your heart is cracked open by the devastation of this crisis, I welcome you to gather with others in a community ritual to pay homage to that which has been lost, is disappearing, and that which may feel too difficult to name.

Our time consists of Council practice, personal reflection, writing exercises, small group sharing, singing, and a collective grief ceremony around the community altar.

Grief Support - Companioning Others with Dignity and Meaning

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Practical and soulful approaches to supporting others through grief, loss and transition in ways that promote dignity and meaning through times of pain.

Through somatic awareness, visualization, active metaphors, individual reflection, cultural understandings, and small group work, participants will gain insight into concepts and strategies to further embody their ability to hold space for others, companioning them through transitions in effective and healing ways.

This workshop is for anyone interested in heart-centered therapeutic approaches to supporting others through difficult times - whether it be death of a loved one, illness, divorce, relationship endings, substance use/recovery, moving, cultural loss, major life transitions and more.

Rituals of Belonging - An Immersion into Praise and Connection

Belonging. One word, 9 letters, and yet a portal to immense feelings of longing and loss for many of us. It is both personal and collective. This longing may be rooted in personal experiences, ancestral memories, and/or within the broader symptoms of Western modernity - a collective wounding that weaves throughout our lives in ways that can both be named, and in ways that reach beyond our words and knowing. It can be difficult to name those things we came into the world anticipating, and yet never receiving. All we know is something is missing.

We will explore ancestral connection, soul movements, and respectful animist relationships with the more-than-humans and place through ritual, Council practice, movement, and ceremonial dialogue, as pathways to nurture belonging in our own lives, and in our broader communities.