Grief & Gratitude Circle
Getting—and staying—in touch with both grief and gratitude can help us be more present, more centered, more authentic, and more ready for whatever comes our way.
Research suggests it takes 28 days to create a new habit. At the end of four weeks, we’ll have created a new practice of checking in with ourselves, honoring the griefs and gratitudes of this moment. We’ll also have a new community.
The Details
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This is an individual practice supported in community. You’ll build a daily practice on your own with weekly check-ins.
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We start with a live check-in call on March 24, meeting weekly on Tuesdays from 7-8:15pm ET until April 21.
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Weekly check-ins will be recorded; recordings will be available within 24 hours.
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You’ll schedule a time for your individual practice that works for you. I recommend 10-15 minutes, in the morning or evening (or both!).
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We’ll have a private messaging group to support you. There will be a daily prompt and opportunities to share your experience, ask questions, and engage with each other.
Why grief & gratitude?
Francis Weller, a psychotherapist and author who writes and teaches about grief, says the work of a mature person is to hold grief in one hand and gratitude in the other, and be stretched large by them.
To do this we need to be able to touch and hold both experiences. Focusing on just one is incomplete; too much grief by itself and we slide into despair and overwhelm. Too much gratitude on its own and we bypass our more challenging emotions. The balance will differ for all of us, but we need contact with both.
We’ll dance between these two emotional experiences, finding what each one offers, and finding what they offer together. Although the daily practice will be individual, we’ll come together to share, process, explore, and learn.
This solitary work
We cannot do alone.