Grieving is personal work for the sake of the world. We were not meant to grieve alone in our little cubicles. Coursing in our veins is an ancient connection to tribal wisdom, and it is needed today to bring healing at the individual and group level.
All ages are invited to join us. Also, I promise that you will be surprised how much laughter springs forth after you take a moment to acknowledge what hurts. Tears are medicine.
Our circle meets irregularly in-person outside. Please send Sheridan a confidential email to sign up for meeting notices.
When we come together, we are learning how to be present with our own emotions. Essentially, we are creating Community-Supported Grieving. And in doing so, we invite more joy into our bodies and our lives.
We meet in the spirit of inquiry. We draw support from contemplative expression, creative discussion, the presence of fire, water, minerals, brief readings, and ritual to witness what grief is and how it moves in us, find what helps, what is not helpful. We work with related topics, including the language of letting go and freedom from fear. In the spirit of Francis Weller's work, we acknowledge that, "There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive." One of our resources is Weller's book, "The Wild Edge of Sorrow."
In the spirit of Martin Prechtel's work, we acknowledge that, "Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses." Sometimes, we read from Prechtel's book, "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise."
Feel free to bring a poem, a piece of art, a song, a photograph, something to share that helps express your grief. Our circle is free.
Please check out our Joyful Soul and Dance of Grief weekend which brought phenomenal healing in 2018.
FAQS and Agreements for Creating Safety and Intimacy
We meet in circle to explore grief and to bear silent, compassionate witness to mourning.
This is a confidential group: what is said here stays here.
Speaking is optional: it's totally fine to show up and not speak. We understand.
Each meeting has new people and returning people; it is an open circle.
We practice revelatory speech, focusing on personal experience, using "I" messages.
We understand it is important not to offer praise, nor judgment, nor what we might think is “helpful” to another.
We will not compare one loss to another; all losses are utterly unique.
We will remember to relax and breathe deeply in this circle and to invite healing.
Community-Supported Grieving in Black Mountain is near Asheville, NC and is facilitated by Sheridan Hill. Together, we increase the capacity to breathe through the inevitable changes and losses of being human, and bear sacred witness to healing.
All ages are invited to join us. Also, I promise that you will be surprised how much laughter springs forth after you take a moment to acknowledge what hurts. Tears are medicine.
Our circle meets irregularly in-person outside. Please send Sheridan a confidential email to sign up for meeting notices.
When we come together, we are learning how to be present with our own emotions. Essentially, we are creating Community-Supported Grieving. And in doing so, we invite more joy into our bodies and our lives.
We meet in the spirit of inquiry. We draw support from contemplative expression, creative discussion, the presence of fire, water, minerals, brief readings, and ritual to witness what grief is and how it moves in us, find what helps, what is not helpful. We work with related topics, including the language of letting go and freedom from fear. In the spirit of Francis Weller's work, we acknowledge that, "There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive." One of our resources is Weller's book, "The Wild Edge of Sorrow."
In the spirit of Martin Prechtel's work, we acknowledge that, "Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses." Sometimes, we read from Prechtel's book, "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise."
Feel free to bring a poem, a piece of art, a song, a photograph, something to share that helps express your grief. Our circle is free.
Please check out our Joyful Soul and Dance of Grief weekend which brought phenomenal healing in 2018.
FAQS and Agreements for Creating Safety and Intimacy
We meet in circle to explore grief and to bear silent, compassionate witness to mourning.
This is a confidential group: what is said here stays here.
Speaking is optional: it's totally fine to show up and not speak. We understand.
Each meeting has new people and returning people; it is an open circle.
We practice revelatory speech, focusing on personal experience, using "I" messages.
We understand it is important not to offer praise, nor judgment, nor what we might think is “helpful” to another.
We will not compare one loss to another; all losses are utterly unique.
We will remember to relax and breathe deeply in this circle and to invite healing.
Community-Supported Grieving in Black Mountain is near Asheville, NC and is facilitated by Sheridan Hill. Together, we increase the capacity to breathe through the inevitable changes and losses of being human, and bear sacred witness to healing.
