This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. Please click <here> to register for this circle.
with Connie Murphy & Trish Garland, members of the Grief Team from Healing Circles Global
Please join us in a series Healing Circles for Grief “to discover the extent and limits of what is lost, what is left and what is possible.” – John Schneider
If you have lost a loved one, this is an opportunity to share what is on your heart and mind right now, to listen and be listened to deeply and generously. Together we create a safe space for listening to messages from our inner experience.
Our healing circles are a safe and supportive space to walk with each other through these times. Each circle is a blend of sharing and silence, compassion, and curiosity. Our agreements ensure acceptance and confidentiality. We honor our own unique paths to healing and respect the choices of others.
Some Assumptions about Grief
- The experience of grief is unique for each individual. While we can make some general assumptions, there is no template that describes the experience for all people.
- Grief is cumulative. That is, each time loss is grieved, the grief encompasses the lifetime of loss and the remnants of each experience.
- Grief following a significant loss is most often a lifelong process, with each pivotal point in life bringing the grief back up to be processed from a new perspective.
- Grief, loss and suffering fundamentally changes and reshapes the individual.
- Grief is not about forgetting or disconnecting. Rather, healthy grief is about remembering the parts of self that get lost amidst the experience and reorienting the individual in their relationship with self, the world and others.
- Grief is a whole body experience: emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual. Each have a wide range of expression which can cue us that grief is present.
- While grief and trauma are often intertwined there are significant differences between them. Trauma should be addressed with trauma specific interventions that often go beyond what is possible in circles.
Adapted from Khris Ford
Grieving Together Healing Circle will meet Weekly on Tuesdays from 11:00am-12:30PM EST/2:00-3:30pm PST from April 22 – May 27.
Grief Circle Dates:
- April 22 & 29
- May 6, 13, 20 & 27
Healing circles are offered at no charge. If you’re able, we invite you to make a gift to help cover the cost of participating when registering through Healing Circles Global.
About Connie Murphy
Following a corporate career in manufacturing and delivery services, Connie’s exploration of “what might be next” took her far from the business world and into Circle Practice. Her training has been in Restorative Circles, Courage & Renewal facilitation and now into Grief Circles.
She came to this practice through the Smith Center’s Compassionate Caregiving in 2022 and then to the Center’s Grief Circles. First as a participant and now an apprentice, she looks forward to hosting in the near future and continuing to expand her practice as circle keeper.
About Trish Garland
Trish Garland has been a HCG Grief Circle Facilitator since 2020. She has facilitated dozens of circles and has personally experienced multiple painful grief journeys from loss to healing. She holds a deep trust in the power of listening to facilitate healing, and believes we heal best in community. Trish holds steady to the hope that communal sharing of our grief journeys while experiencing losses, non-death losses, anticipatory losses, and generational and ancestral grief/losses will not only help us to heal each other but will also help to heal the world.
