February community grief tending

Saturday 8 February 2020 - 1 - 5pm - Brighthelm Centre

Apologies for the hiatus over the last couple of months. I'm coming out of a period of ill-health - a forced slowing down - which resulted in a fruitful deep winter dreaming over the holiday season. I hope this potent time of year has served you well.

This year my vision is to 'seed' the work with a larger programme of events and channels, and I'm also open to travelling to different locations, if there's a call. So please get in touch to discuss your local needs, to see what we could envision and create together. 

With ideas still bubbling, we're back in Brighton in early February, close to Imbolc and beginning of spring.  
 

The invitation

As a culture we’re grief illiterate, living in a state of amnesia and anaesthesia, with unexpressed sorrow often showing up as anxiety, depression and addiction. When we deny grief, we compress the depth of our emotional experience, and our ability to live with the forces of life and death.

Together we acknowledge that sorrow is a communal cup that we all drink from, breaking down the walls between us. When we welcome and witness grief, we metabolise our sorrow, finding that the central energy of sorrow, is a vital life force. Grieving opens us to the depth of loving.
 
The ritual space provides a container for touching, witnessing and releasing what we carry, to cleanse our congested hearts, leaving us with a new sense of vitality. Communal grieving is a practice of loving life together. 
 

The ritual

The ritual is 4 hours, where we move in and out of our grief in 4 stages:

• stirring our grief with movement and talking exercises
• expressing our grief at the grief altar, supported by the community around us
• integration time with song and touch
• sharing of what we harvested for ourselves and our fellow grievers.

Suggested exchange

The suggested exchange for the half-day ritual is £27.

There are some sliding scale spots available. So please get in touch if you feel you need to be there and that exchange is prohibitive. We don’t want to exclude anyone that is called.
 

Booking

Booking and payment is advance is essential as we are limited to 22 spaces. So we have enough space for everyone who wants to spend time at the grief altar.

Please email me - gail@bigseeds.co.uk - to get the booking instructions, or if you have any questions.

Find the February grief tending ritual event on Facebook.

With gratitude,

Gail
 

Gail Davidson 
Big Seeds 
Seeding regenerative stories
e:  gail@bigseeds.co.uk  
t:   +44 7887 542113
w: www.bigseeds.co.uk/grief-tending-in-community