Being with Grief: Resting into Empathy
During the darkest time of year our deepest untended, unintegrated grief can arise. What if in response there was a space of empathy within us we could rest into?
Cultivating Empathy
When we cultivate empathy within ourselves we access our innate capacity to give and receive empathy in the face of our own and others deepest grief.
In this workshop we will:
Learn and practice empathy skills
Be guided in deeply restful embodiment practices
Have space to be seen and held in our grief
Connect to a felt sense of resource within us that allows us to befriend the grief and darkness of this time of year
Be in a communal setting that welcomes grief
‘Empathy is communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You are not alone.’ ~ Brené Brown
Remembering the Art of Grief and Empathy
We live in a grief-heavy culture, land and world. We have lost much of the traditional wisdom about how to move toward our grief, to feel it and process it. Lacking tools and context for befriending grief, we tend to suppress and deny the grief that is in us. This contributes to the stuckness, overwhelm and avoidance so many of us experience, and the unfortunate repetition of cycles of dysfunctional ways of being in our lives and relationships.
We are in the times of learning again how to tend to our sacred grief. How do meet ourselves and others with empathy? There is no other way but through. Our grief holds the keys for our most honest and true path of right action, relationship and renewal. If we do not honor and contact our grief with empathy and presence we cannot receive the hidden wisdom, power and love awaiting as the essential medicine for these times.
Many of us lack a literacy of empathy and often fail to recognize how this leads to unprocessed grief. Unprocessed grief inhibits our aliveness, purpose, passion and joy. All grief, no matter how big or how small, how old or how new, can be met with kindness, presence and the resource needed for its tending and liberation.
When we meet our grief with empathy, we create a space for our being to rest into. Living in a world of productivity driven self improvement where we are given the implicit message that there is something wrong with us can be defeating and exhausting. When we slow down and feel our grief, responding with empathic presence, we create and embody new neural pathways of wholeness, belonging, and deep rest into our own being-ness. Then with the nourishment of our own being, we feed that within us which is ready to learn, grow, play, awaken, and joyfully co-create with the gift of our lives.
Being with Grief: Resting into Empathy is a 3 hour workshop where we cultivate the skills and capacity to meet our grief with the healing presence of empathy. We will meet online for two 90 min sessions with a 30 minute break in between.
This course is offered as supportive preparation or integration for our in person Community Grief Rituals. It can also be taken on it's own in your personal journey with grief.
Being with Grief: Resting into Empathy
December 18th at 12-3:30pm PT online
Cost is sliding scale $45-$75. There are scholarships available by application.
QTBIPOC welcomed, wanted, and celebrated!
Venmo: @Mikyo-Black-6
Paypal: subrosasanto@gmail.com
10% of proceeds donated to Dakini Mountain
