Entering the Healing Ground
From all observable indicators, the season ahead will be challenging. We have entered what could be called The Long Dark, a time of endings, decay, and dissolution. It will be a prolonged season—a generation or two—during which the earth community will undergo tremendous challenges and the cumulative losses will touch everything and everyone. Grief will be the keynote for the foreseeable future. After many years of offering grief rituals, there is a clear need to share this work with others. The requests are too many. The need too urgent. It is essential that we gather and generate a robust community of skilled grief tenders.
Ritual is an ancient language, a cadence rooted deep in our ancestral lineage. It is a language older than words and is uttered in nearly every living culture. Ritual was the means by which communities addressed the inevitable experiences that arise in the course of a lifetime: birth and death, initiation and healing, community and world renewal. We are creatures of ritual. We discover meaning and uncover our wider, entangled lives in the context of ritual process. Without potent and ongoing rituals, however, we lose a sense of the connective tissue that binds the individual to community, affirms the link between the human and more-than-human worlds, and sustains the note that is struck between the human and the sacred.
This training emerges from over twenty-five years of experimentation in the territory of ritual process. It is an immersion in the direct application of ritual to the various conditions our communities will face. While our focus will be on grief rituals, the core elements of this training can extend to wider circumstances.
In a time of cultural and environmental trauma, we must revision practices of communal recalibration. Rituals were the means by which the village would re-regulate itself following any form of traumatic encounter. Recalling this “unforgotten wisdom” that resides at the core of our psychic lives, is central to finding our way through the whitewater of these times.
For a course description and topic outline, please click here. For an application to this online training, click here. We look forward to sharing this powerful time with you. For further information, email [email protected].
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
This training emerges from over twenty-five years of experimentation in the territory of ritual process. It is an immersion in the direct application of ritual to the various conditions our communities will face. While our focus will be on grief rituals, the core elements of this training can extend to wider circumstances.
In a time of cultural and environmental trauma, we must revision practices of communal recalibration. Rituals were the means by which the village would re-regulate itself following any form of traumatic encounter. Recalling this “unforgotten wisdom” that resides at the core of our psychic lives, is central to finding our way through the whitewater of these times.
For a course description and topic outline, please click here. For an application to this online training, click here. We look forward to sharing this powerful time with you. For further information, email [email protected].
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
September 9th 12-4 PT with Francis
September 23rd 12-1:30 with Holly, Erin and Carl, 90 minutes
October 7th 12-4 PT with Francis
October 21st 12-1:30 with Holly, Erin and Carl, 90 minutes
November 11th 12-4 PT with Francis
November 18th 12-1:30 with Holly, Erin and Carl, 90 minutes
December 2nd 12-4 PT with Francis
December 16th 12-1:30 with Holly, Erin and Carl, 90 minutes
January 13th 12-4pm with Francis
January 27th 12-1:30 with Francis, Holly, Erin, and Carl for closing, 120 minutes