VILLAGE

Autumn 2025

A six month, monthly online moving village gathering to include our losses as part of our vibrant living.

Holding ourselves, together

We need to be able to hold ourselves when grief and sorrow wash through our lives. We also need a village, to acknowledge our grief and loss, the big and the small, so that it can colour, but not define our lives.

For most of us this place and 'process' has been lost or ignored so that we are left in the cold or emptiness of grief, rather than being alive to it. The difference, and the cost, is our vitality. Which is a waste of our life while we have it.

As Elizabeth says in The Last Devil to Die "I'm grieving, not dead".

So this group - 1 ¾ hours a month, through the Winter, is a village for our aliveness whilst acknowledging loss. Holding ourselves, together, as we include what's true; that sorrow is a healthy response in our vibrant life. It's not what we carry, but how. We'll dance, of course. We'll laugh, maybe cry, we'll be delighted, we'll be together and that's healthy.

When: Mondays monthly online

Mondays 6 - 7.45pm (UK);

6th Oct, Nov 3rd, Dec 1st, Jan 12th, Feb 9th, Mar 9th.

Cost:

£150

£100 earlybird until 31st August

£40 (4 places available for people for whom the cost would otherwise be prohibitive)

To book your place:

suerickards888@gmail.com

I have trained as a grief-tender with Frances Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, who names a few gates of the grief that we all live with, and that are often unacknowledged. This work will gently inform our times together.So this group - 1 ¾ hours a month, through the Winter, is a village for our aliveness whilst acknowledging loss. Holding ourselves, together, as we include what's true; that sorrow is a healthy response in our vibrant life. It's not what we carry, but how. We'll dance, of course. We'll laugh, maybe cry, we'll be delighted, we'll be together and that's healthy.