Grief & Gratitude: a Saturday morning workshop for the separating or divorced. With Jenny Douglas.

“In myth, in ritual, and in theology, the broken heart is not a regrettable symptom of derailment, but is rather the starting point of anything that matters.”
Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School

Whether it’s something we asked for or not, the experience of divorce often represents a kind of initiation: a marked departure from a map that once felt clearly-marked into a forest that can be wild and unruly and breathtaking.

How we choose to enter the forest, and be in it, says a lot about the shape we’ll find ourselves in when we eventually emerge from it.

In this three-hour workshop, available to anyone separating or divorced,  you’ll have the opportunity to meet yourself exactly where you are. Through writing, contemplation, poetry, and bearing witness, we’ll explore ideas of grief and anger, despair and forgiveness, freedom and gratitude. We’ll clear out what needs clearing out, in order that we might be sufficiently prepared to welcome what’s longing to come to us next.

Coffee, tea and brunch food will be on hand, as will an intimate group of eclectic others who, like you, are making their way forward and choosing to bring their whole hearts with them as they do so.