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Writing the Broken Heart
January 14 @ 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Hosted by This Hallowed Wilderness
Description (from host)
6 weeks of companioning your grief through poetry
How do we turn toward our heartache without collapsing? How do we allow ourselves to feel what’s true for us instead of letting our strategies of avoidance run the show? Our grief needs a practice to give us ballast, a space we can drop into to explore what’s alive and present for us, to engage our emotions, to keep them warm and moving through us instead of becoming stuck and calcified in our bodies.
Our grief also needs community, a holding space of witnessing and compassion where our humanity can be reflected back to us and we feel less alone on our journey.
This series invites you to the practice of writing to gently navigate the terrain of your grief in the container of community.
Each session will include a selection of poems with invitations to write in response to the poems through guided prompts exploring the many dimensions of your grief. We’ll look at making a welcome space for our grief, offering ourselves compassion, tending our relationship to grief, grief in the body and continuing bonds.
While this class is for anyone experiencing a significant loss or change, not just the death of a loved one, there will be one session dedicated to honoring our beloveds who are no longer with us.
No poetry writing experience is required, as this is not about writing poems (though past students have) but using the poems as a doorway to access our own emotional landscape.
Meetings will not be recorded but all prompts will be sent after each session.
Self-investment: $150 (classes also make great gifts!🎁)
Payment: Venmo @Naila-Francis
PayPal & Zelle: naila.francis@gmail.com
