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Communal Grief Retreat

Communal Grief Retreat

Join us for this powerful communal grief retreat.
Saturday 9am – 9pm
Sunday 9am – 5pm

Many of us feel alone and isolated in our grief. Western cultures tend to have a “don’t ask for help” and a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality. It is forced down and shamed until it turns into a personal pathology rather than collectively held and honored. We are not meant to grieve alone!

When grief is not processed, it often gets passed down through the generations and can come out in harmful ways. But we can choose differently. We can reclaim our natural ability to heal alongside one another.

Grief is not something to get over but to be embraced and cherished for the love that it is. It is ok to hurt, we just need each other to collectively hold that hurt and support one another to carry what we cannot carry alone. Sometimes we can get stagnate and drown in our grief because we aren’t given a way and a community to allow it to move through us.

This medicine helps us regain our interconnectivity. This being human is no easy task and part of our challenge in life is learning to be more human. To celebrate the full range of our human experience and that means our deep sorrow. But touching on that agony is often scary and why we need companions to journey with us through the tunnel of grief until we come out the other side.

Harmony Woods Retreat Center
300-360
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Oct 06, 2024.

Event Supported By

Harmony Woods Retreat Center
harmonywoodsreatreat@gmail.com
Harmony Woods Retreat Center
11507 S Keeney Rd
Spokane, Washington 99224
509-993-2968
christi@harmonywoods.org