Heart Art Healing and Kim Varner join together to invite you to this grief and art circle. In this circle we will combine group sharing and artistic expression as a way to move and feel into the grief we all carry every day. There will be time for group shares, song, and working on your own grief art journal page.

 

We carry grief with us every day,  more than we may even realize. Francis Weller describes the 5 gates of grief as doorways that lead to the communal hall of sorrow. The five gates are:

1)        Everything we love we will lose: people, animals, home, loss of skills and capacities, or loss of life dreams

2)        The places that have not known love: places inside ourselves never touched by love, parts of ourselves we are ashamed of or hold in contempt

3)        The sorrows of the world: the losses of the world around us, shared and communal sadness 

4)        What we expected and did not receive: lack of village, longing to belong, not being seen for our unique gifts

5)        Ancestral grief: lost connection to the land, stories, rituals, songs of our ancestors; sense of homelessness, and the collective  soul grief of the                abuses of humans throughout history

 

Coming together to acknowledge and honor our grief allows us to connect our hearts and be witnessed in our deepest depths in community. It allows us to move this energy and make space for joy, playfulness, and gratitude.

 

(Donations may be given at the event)