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    Grief and the Holidays: Practical Tips & Create a Take Home Candle Ritual

    South Park Yoga & Wellness 2985 Beech St., San Diego, CA, United States

    The holiday season can be especially tender when we are missing someone we love. This 2-hour interactive gathering offers gentle guidance, education, and ritual practices to help navigate grief during this time of year. Hosted by Wendy Kessler, Grief Guide, this is a time for us to come together and acknowledge that the holidays can present additional challenges for those who are grieving. Wendy will share practical ways to navigate the season and show us how knowledge, ritual and creativity can aid in the integration of grief. Together, we will: Learn about the nature of grief and tools for navigating […]

    $25

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    A Gathering for Friend-loss Grievers

    In this online gathering, we will share stories and have a facilitated discussion about friend-loss grief. The session will be hosted and facilitated by Hannah Rumsey, the Founder and Director of Friends Missing Friends -- a community dedicated to providing support and guidance for people grieving friends. Friend-loss grief is widely ignored and dismissed by our society. Harold Ivan Smith, the author of Grieving the Death of a Friend, said it best: "The distraught close friend of someone who dies has virtually no legitimate, public grief and mourning channels." Because of that, friend-loss grievers have very few avenues to openly […]

    Free
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    You’re going to this event Grief & The Holidays – Self Care Workshop and Sound Healing Experience

    South Park Yoga & Wellness 2985 Beech St., San Diego, CA, United States

    The holidays can bring up all kinds of emotions — especially grief. It’s not only the grief that follows the death of someone we love, but also the quiet ache that comes with the loss of a pet, the end of a relationship, a career shift, or a dream that has changed. This season can stir up memories and tenderness in ways that are hard to name. Join us as we come together to pause, breathe, and care for ourselves in community. Grief Coach Wendy Kessler will guide a compassionate conversation on tending to grief during the holidays, followed by […]

    $25

  • “It’s Complicated” Support Group

    “It’s Complicated” Support Group
    Virtual Event

    A monthly peer-led Zoom group for people who had a strained relationship with someone who’s died. It can be tough to be in a group with other folks who were close with their parent, sibling, grandparent, partner, co-parent, friend, etc. As much as I like for there to be a range of experiences represented in grief groups, so that we can hear diverse perspectives, sometimes it is nice to be with people who “get it.” When addiction, mental health challenges, conflict, estrangement, abuse, etc. were a part of the picture, it can affect the grief journey in unique ways. This […]

    $5 – $20
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    Childfree By Choice & Grieving

    “It’s Complicated” – Support Group
    Virtual Event

    It’s not a given that everyone who is childfree by choice is 100%, unabashedly content with the decision. While we may be set in our choice, there can still be grief there. I know there is for me. It’s a both-and/two truths situation. Many of us make this choice for a lot of unfortunate, depressing, and/or systemic reasons, and I created this space where we can be with our truths, and hurts, around it all. Our monthly peer-led Zoom group is intended to be a space for people who have chosen not to have children. It is not intended to […]

    $5 – $20
  • Holiday Grief Lounge

    Holiday Grief Lounge – Evening

    Zoom Cornelius, NC

    The Holiday Grief Lounge is a quiet space to gather with other grievers so that we can prepare for, take a break from or recover from whatever the Christmas season throws our way. You will be among a community of people who know what you're going through and won't expect you to mask your feelings or act cheery. While this space is intended to be a place to chill quietly, if the mood should strike you there will be the opportunity to chat as well. There will also be prompts available for sharing during this time or for journaling. Feel […]

    Free

  • “It’s Complicated” Support Group

    “It’s Complicated” Support Group
    Virtual Event

    A monthly peer-led Zoom group for people who had a strained relationship with someone who’s died. It can be tough to be in a group with other folks who were close with their parent, sibling, grandparent, partner, co-parent, friend, etc. As much as I like for there to be a range of experiences represented in grief groups, so that we can hear diverse perspectives, sometimes it is nice to be with people who “get it.” When addiction, mental health challenges, conflict, estrangement, abuse, etc. were a part of the picture, it can affect the grief journey in unique ways. This […]

    $5 – $20
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    Monthly Wailing Ceremony

    Monthly Wailing Ceremony
    Awakenings Wellness Center 1061 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    This is a monthly offering, happening on the second Tuesday of every month. This offering is designed to support somatically moving our shared and personal grief. We begin to build our container through brief sharing and connecting and then move into movement, vocalizing, wailing, praying, and drumming. We are building community through acknowledging and exploring the shared human experience of grief and loss.

    $25 – $75
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    Childfree By Choice & Grieving

    “It’s Complicated” – Support Group
    Virtual Event

    It’s not a given that everyone who is childfree by choice is 100%, unabashedly content with the decision. While we may be set in our choice, there can still be grief there. I know there is for me. It’s a both-and/two truths situation. Many of us make this choice for a lot of unfortunate, depressing, and/or systemic reasons, and I created this space where we can be with our truths, and hurts, around it all. Our monthly peer-led Zoom group is intended to be a space for people who have chosen not to have children. It is not intended to […]

    $5 – $20
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    Grief in Motion: Inviting Flow Through Breath

    Sakala Community 1660 Gilpin St, Denver, United States

    A guided community circle where we turn toward our grief and use the power of breath to gently guide it into flow. Hosted by the Denver Deathcare Collective. Where grief is tended and death is sacred. These monthly grief circles at Sakala Community are a compassionate space to hold your sorrow in the embrace of community. In this month’s circle, Ashley Bradney of Healing & Dying is partnering with Erin Doty of ShatterStress to offer a somatic transformation of grief through breathwork. Together, we’ll honor the grief that lives in our bodies, invite in flow and release of emotional energy […]

    $25
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    Community Grief Circle

    Mystic Flora Apothecary 1501 El Camino Real Suite F, Belmont, CA, United States

    Grief is not meant to be carried alone. This community grief circle is an open, supportive space for people navigating loss of any kind : death, relationships, identity, or life changes. Together we will slow down, listen, share if we wish, and honor our grief without trying to fix or rush it. No prior experience is needed, and sharing is always optional. What to expect: • A facilitated, guided grief circle • Gentle grounding and opening ritual • Space for reflection, sharing, or quiet presence • Community connection without pressure to speak • A calm, respectful, and confidential environment Open […]

    $40

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    Monthly Wailing Ceremony

    Monthly Wailing Ceremony
    Awakenings Wellness Center 1061 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    This is a monthly offering, happening on the second Tuesday of every month. This offering is designed to support somatically moving our shared and personal grief. We begin to build our container through brief sharing and connecting and then move into movement, vocalizing, wailing, praying, and drumming. We are building community through acknowledging and exploring the shared human experience of grief and loss.

    $25 – $75

 

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