Into the Wildwood
A Journey into the
Forest of Grief
We go together, with love and support from the More Than Human Ones
What do we do with our grief? How do we meet and tend ourselves and others through it?
Can grief be a portal to connection and care?
These are some of the essential questions of our lives.
Into the Wildwood is one response - one born of the trees, the fungi, the water and air, my listening heart.
In Into the Wildwood, we’ll go together into grief. We’ll travel the underland, the wildwood - but we won’t go alone.
We’ll walk together, and remember our place in the world.
Five Fridays, 10-11:30am PST,
plus an optional asynchronous nature immersion:
March 20th
March 27th
April 3rd
Optional nature immersion 4/10
April 17th
April 24th
Into the Wildwood is a space for you and your grief to be seen, held, and tended.
Over five virtual sessions (with an optional out-of-synchronous time nature immersion), we’ll create connections and care as human community.
We’ll remember/re-weave our connection with the More Than Human ones.
We’ll go together, and find support along the way from ancestors, plant, animal, and fungus kin, and from the elements.
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We meet at the portal, the threshold, the trailhead. We’ll provision ourselves for the journey ahead through practices that support your body, heart, and spirit. Most importantly, you’ll discover an ally from the More Than Human World who is ready to support and guide you along the way.
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We’ll move forward on the twisting path into the Wildwood. Somatic, relational, magical, and body-based practices will support us as we find our way (and, when necessary, step off the path).
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In this session, we’ll find a sheltered nook in the forest of our grief. A space to be held and protected as you bring presence to your experience. This is the centerpoint of Into the Wildwood, a time to root into the deep care of the More Than Human World.
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This week, we won’t meet together. Instead, I’ll email suggestions for your own time in and with a forest (park, backyard…) near you.
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After our time in the forest (literally and figuratively), we begin our return. What will you bring with you out of the forest? What will you leave to be composted, digested, returned to the Earth?
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We return to the portal, the threshold, the trailhead. In this final session, we integrate the experiences of Into the Wildwood. We’ll consider lessons learned, questions asked (perhaps answered or newly sprouted). We’ll gently consider intentions and possibilities for what will be carried forward into tomorrow, and the days to come.