The Grief Project Presents a Widowed Gathering
November 23, 2019
8:45 am welcome, refreshments
9:00 am to 12:00 pm gathering
12:00 lunch *each person orders off menu and will pay for their own lunch
NOTE NEW LOCATION
Davanni’s
663 Winnetka Avenue N, Golden Valley, Minnesota
“Approaching the Holidays with a Grieving Heart”
Kirsten Goodwalt and Geralyn Nathe-Evans, who have experienced the loss of their beloved, will facilitate this day of sharing and learning from one another. We will be sharing our lives as we recognize our loss as well as tools to help us grieve well and love well.
We will be creating a special holiday memento in honor of our beloved this day.
We will share our stories, our loss and explore our journey with one another.
This gathering will explore our loss and our journey especially in this holiday season.
Special attention will be made to your individual story, hopes and dreams. Please bring a photo of your beloved.
• The gathering is organized and led by widows who understand the journey and are here to be a resource to you.
The event is free, however preregistration is appreciated for planning.
Please email Kirsten at kirsteng524@gmail.com or
Geralyn at dgmmlevans09@yahoo.com with your name and contact information please.
Autumn Widowed Gathering
Grieving our Loss
While Finding our Future
This gathering will explore our loss
and our journey to live into the future.
Special attention will be made to
your individual plan, hopes and dreams.
October 19, 2019
8:45 am welcome, refreshments
9:00 am – 12:00 pm gathering
12:00 lunch
*each person orders off menu and will pay for their own lunch
Location:
Davanni’s Pizza & Hot Hoagies
663 Winnetka Ave North
Golden Valley, MN 55427
Sacred Journey Spring Gathering
Widowed Gathering
Presenter Geralyn Nathe-Evans
“Exploring the Need to Grieve and Mourn;
Helping Yourself Heal”
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
8:45 am welcome
9:00 am to 12:30 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
The event program is, “Exploring the Need to Grieve and Mourn; Helping Yourself Heal.” This gathering will explore the Six Central Needs of Mourning. Special attention will be made to your individual plan for self-care.
Geralyn has been educated as a Death and Grief Educator at the Center for Loss and Life Transition. Certified as a Lay Ecclesial Minister and Nurse preceded the journey to widow and is foundational. Geralyn has walked in life as a wife and mom, more recently as a widow herself.
The Gathering is free to attend but we ask that you pre-register to ensure sufficient food, beverages and other materials.
- Small and intimate, personal touch, personal attention.
- You will enjoy yummy refreshments, laughter, sharing and new friendships.
- Inspiring Speakers Interactive Program
- We are all widowed – “we get you”
- Step out of your regular routine & relax with us.
Our Mission: To companion the bereaved as they discover new life after loss and to share our common journey.
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
Sacred Journey Autumn Gathering
Widowed Gathering
Journey to Healing & Wholeness
Saturday, September 15, 2018
11:30 am to 4:00 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Life is a series of new beginnings moving us through seasons, life transitions, new places and situations. But sometimes we become stuck for all kinds of reasons—inertia, depression, grief, and sometimes just overwhelmed by choices. The labyrinth is an ancient and powerful tool for transformation— a spiritual practice that opens the door on the imagination, helps us to honor our path and to conceive of new directions. We will focus on how we move past our inertia and nurture the emergent new life as it begins its tentative steps forward. We will use the labyrinth, creativity, imagery, journaling and story to explore where we are on our individual journey and move toward healing and wholeness.
Lisa Gidlow Moriarty, is an artist, spiritual director and professional labyrinth maker. She is an internationally recognized presenter with a passion for leading others in use of labyrinths in the spiritual journey. Lisa designs and installs labyrinths for schools, hospitals, churches and individuals, and has made well over 100 labyrinths, across the USA and beyond. Lisa travels internationally to explore the ancient labyrinth and provides workshops, tours and presentations on the history and use of labyrinths in a variety of settings. She is past president of the international Labyrinth Society (www.labyrinthsociety.org) and owner of Paths of Peace (www.pathsofpeace.com) in Stillwater, MN
The Gathering is free to attend but we ask that you pre-register to ensure sufficient food, beverages and other materials. Check-in begins at 11:30 am and the program begins at noon.
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
Spring/Summer Widowed Gathering
Saturday, June 10, 2017
11:30 am – 3:30 pm
A Day of Healing through Art and Sacred Drumming
Led by Cheri Bunker, Certified Health Rhythms and Soul Collage Facilitator
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Join us as we combine Art and Drumming to give you new tools for your grief journey. Give yourself permission to enjoy some lighter moments and learn new self care methods to strengthen and heal your heart.
We will create 5×8 Soul Collage cards to honor your beloved. Feel free to bring a photo or other picture that can be cut out to place on the card or you can use the pictures and magazines that will be available, to capture the energy of your loved one. Using our beautiful tribute cards, we will have an honoring ceremony as we place them in the middle of our drumming circle.
Drumming will enlighten your experience of the grief process and is a proven, evidenced based wellness tool. Let yourself feel the healing process through these incredible tools. No experience is necessary for any parts of our session. Be sure to wear comfortable clothing for the Gathering as temperatures can fluctuate, it is a good idea to dress in layers or to bring a shawl or sweater. Tula Yoga prefers if we remove our shoes so feel free to bring soft slippers or other appropriate footwear if you wish.
We will not be serving lunch so feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. We will be serving plenty of healthy snacks, cheese, crackers, fruit and beverages.
Our Facilitator
Cheri Bunker is a Medical Laboratory Technologist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Aromatherapist, HealthRHYTHMS Drumming Facilitator, Soul Collage Facilitator and Sound Healer. Cheri uses these integrative tools for healing, relaxation and inner healing through the expressive arts and works with many different populations.
The Gathering is free to attend but we ask that you pre-register to ensure sufficient food, beverages and other materials. Check-in begins at 11:30 am and the program begins at noon.
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
Autumn Widowed Gathering
Saturday, October 15, 2016
11:30 am – 4:00 pm
Musical Moments of Hope and Healing
With Tami Briggs, therapeutic harpist
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Join us on October 15th for an unforgettable session of music, guided meditation and learning new self care techniques. In this session, you will explore a unique musical approach to the grief journey. Join Tami Briggs, therapeutic harpist, as she demonstrates through powerful stories and live musical examples how music brings richness, depth, and tenderness to your heart. The harp, in particular, is so gentle and comforting at this reflective and difficult time. It is frequently called “the perfect instrument” when working with this special time of mourning.
Our Facilitator
Tami Briggs is a therapeutic harpist and in 1999, she founded Musical Reflections located in Minneapolis. She has a certification from the International Harp Therapy Program and has played the harp at the bedside of hundreds of hospital and hospice patients.
As a composer and recording artist, she has released 15 CDs for relaxation, comfort, healing and sleep; she has also written two books.
Learn more about Tami and her incredible work at: www.MusicalReflections.com and www.WomenAsHealers.com.
The Gathering is free to attend but we ask that you pre-register to ensure sufficient food, beverages and other materials. Check-in begins at 11:30 am and the program begins at noon.
Lunch will not be served but heavy refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon. If desired, you are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. For more information email info@griefproject.org.
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
Sacred Journey Spring Gathering
Widowed Gathering
Journey to Healing & Wholeness
Saturday, April 23, 2016
11:30 am to 4:00 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Life is a series of new beginnings moving us through seasons, life transitions, new places and situations. But sometimes we become stuck for all kinds of reasons—inertia, depression, grief, and sometimes just overwhelmed by choices. The labyrinth is an ancient and powerful tool for transformation— a spiritual practice that opens the door on the imagination, helps us to honor our path and to conceive of new directions. With Spring approaching, we will focus on how we move past our inertia and nurture the emergent new life as it begins its tentative steps forward. We will use the labyrinth, creativity, imagery, journaling and story to explore where we are on our individual journey and move toward healing and 
wholeness.
Lisa Gidlow Moriarty, artist, spiritual director and professional labyrinth maker and facilitator, is an internationally recognized presenter with a passion for leading others in use of labyrinths in the spiritual journey. International journeys to sacred sites continuously inform her work as she designs and installs labyrinths for schools, hospitals, churches and individuals. She is past president of The Labyrinth Society and owner of Paths of Peace (www.pathsofpeace.com) in Stillwater, MN, where she is the caretaker of over a dozen outdoor labyrinths.
Sacred Journey Winter Gathering
A Day of Healing through Art, Rhythm and Sacred Sound
Saturday, January 16, 2016
11:30 am to 4:00 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
The Program
A Day of Healing Art, Rhythm, and Sound
Cheri Bunker, facilitator
Join us as we combine Art, Drumming and Sacred Sound Healing to give you new tools for your grief journey. Give yourself permission to enjoy some lighter moments and learn new self care methods to strengthen and heal your heart.
We will create 5×8 Soul Collage cards to honor your beloved. Feel free to bring a photo or other picture that can be cut out to place on the card or you can use the pictures and magazines that will be available, to capture the energy of your loved one. Using our beautiful tribute cards, we will have an honoring ceremony as we place them in the middle of our drumming circle.
Drumming will enlighten your experience of the grief process and is a proven, evidenced based wellness tool. After the drumming circle, we will continue on our journey with a Sound Healing Session. During this session, you will experience the sounds of the crystal and Tibetan bowls, chimes, Angel wing, drum and Native American Flute. Let yourself feel the healing process through these incredible tools. No experience is necessary for any parts of our session. If you wish to lie on the floor during the hour long sacred sound healing, please bring a bed roll or yoga mat and pillow. There are yoga mats and blankets available at Tula Yoga as well. Wear comfortable clothing for the Gathering.
No lunch will be served – please feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. We will serve plenty of snacks, beverages and refreshments during the workshop.
The Facilitator
Cheri Bunker is a Medical Laboratory Technologist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Aromatherapist, HealthRHYTHMS Drumming Facilitator, Soul Collage Facilitator and Sound Healer. Cheri uses these integrative tools for healing, relaxation and inner healing through the expressive arts and works with many different populations.
Sacred Journey Fall Gathering
Finding Resilience When Dreams are Shattered
Saturday, October 24, 2015
11:30 am to 4:00 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
The Program
Finding Resiliency When Dreams Are Shattered
Testimonials:
“I feel some hope. I learned a lot of new coping skills. I also met a lot of great people. I don’t feel so alone.”
“I am reassured that I am doing what I can to get through this.”
“I feel uplifted. More and peace with my current situation and ready for a new start.”
“I feel hopeful that I can walk this journey with new and helpful information.”
“Coming away with new ideas for helping myself go forward in this process.”
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Life rarely happens as desired or planned. Detours and surprises are the stuff of living. While many such detours are disappointing, others shatter dreams and can throw people off their usual resilient responses. Becoming a widow or widower is a profound disruptive change that alters lives.
During this workshop, participants will explore how to respond during times of unexpected transition and loss. The session will include ways utilize their strengths and the resources of others in facing change and transition. Resiliency is more than self-care. While that is crucial, attention to meaning-making and reasonable hope deserve attention.
Join us for this experiential workshop where you will have time for group discussion and questions and answers.
The Gathering registration begins at 11:30 am with the program beginning at noon. Refreshments will be served. (Please note due to the time of this Gathering, we will not be serving lunch.) The Gathering is free to attend but preregistration is requested to ensure enough materials and food.
Join us to learn new healing tools, make new friends and see old friends, have fun and take a break to be with those who understand the widowed journey.
The Facilitator
Ted Bowman is an educator, author and consultant specializing in change and transition, whether it occurs in families, an organization, or the community. His emphasis is on aiding people in utilizing their strengths and the resources of others in facing change and transition. He became an adjunct faculty member at the University of Saint Thomas in 2006, teaching a graduate social work course on grief and loss, which continues.
From 1985-1996 Ted was Senior Trainer for the Wilder Foundation, a large endowed human service agency, located in St. Paul, Minnesota. He assumed that position after directing educational programs at Family Service agencies in Charlotte, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota for the previous twelve years. Ted taught Family Education courses at the University of Minnesota from 1981-2012.
From 1976 until now, Ted Bowman has published more than 80 articles, chapters, booklets, and poems. His two booklets, Loss of Dreams: A Special Kind of Grief, published in 1994, and Finding Hope When Dreams Have Shattered, published in 2001, are widely used in grief and bereavement settings.
The Gathering
Small and intimate, personal touch, personal attention.
Food, laughter, sharing and new friendships.
Developed by widowed for widowed – we “get you”.
Step out of your regular routine & relax with us.
The event is free – preregistration is required
Sacred Journey Winter Gathering
Explore the Healing Power of Collage & Dreams
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Refreshments: 8:30 am
Program: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
TULA Yoga
99 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
The Program
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” – Carl Jung
Learn the art of Healing Collage to tap into your dreams and learn new concepts & techniques to help you heal as you move through our grief journey. This technique can be used in all facets of your life.
The day will feature art-making, interactive discussion, guided meditation and whole heart facilitation; this workshop will help you to learn new tools to guide you on your grief journey. No art experience is necessary or required.
The Facilitator
Sheila Asato, healing artist, certified embodied imagination coach and cross-cultural trainer, with more than 30 years experience teaching and exhibiting her art in USA, Europe and Asia. Bilingual in English and Japanese, Sheila regularly leads workshops on the relationship between art, dreams and healing. Sheila knows first hand the power of dreams and using art as a medium for healing.
Sacred Journey Autumn Gathering
Grief & How We Carry it: Telling our Stories
Rescheduled for
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Join us for a day of companionship and support.
We will meet to renew, learn, and connect with other widowed people.
With Karen Hering, author of
Writing to Wake the Soul
Program Details
Grief and How We Carry It: telling our stories
“It’s not the weight you carry,” the poet Mary Oliver says of books and bricks and grief, “but how you carry it.” When loss breaks our hearts open, how we carry the weight of our grief matters. In this day retreat, we’ll explore our experience of grief and how the stories we tell can make a difference in balancing the heft of our sorrow. With storytelling, guided writing, interactive activities and sharing with one another, we’ll consider the way grief moves in our lives and how we carry it, honoring the loved ones we’ve lost while supporting our need for healing.
Rev. Karen Hering is a chaplain and consulting literary minister and author of the award-winning book, Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within, named one of the best spiritual books of 2013. She leads retreats and guided writing sessions for writers and nonwriters alike, inviting participants into a correspondence with their own heart and their own sacred truths. Her programs have been described as “sacred, safe and illuminating.” No writing experience is necessary.
The Gathering
Small and intimate, personal touch, personal attention.
Food, laughter, sharing and new friendships.
Developed by widowed for widowed – we “get you”.
Step out of your regular routine & relax with us.
The event is free; preregistration is required.
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
at the Tula Yoga & Wellness
99 N. Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104
Sacred Journey Winter Gathering
Journey to Healing and Wholeness
Saturday, March 29, 2014
9:30 am to 3:00 pm
at the Tula Yoga & Wellness
99 N. Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104
Life is a series of new beginnings moving us through seasons, life transitions, new places and situations. But sometimes we become stuck for all kinds of reasons—inertia, depression, grief, and sometimes just overwhelmed by choices. The labyrinth is an ancient and powerful tool for transformation— a spiritual practice that opens the door on the imagination, helps us to honor our path and to conceive of new directions. With Spring approaching, we will focus on how we move past our inertia and nurture the emergent new life as it begins its tentative steps forward. We will use the labyrinth, creativity, imagery, journaling and story to explore where we are on our individual journey and move toward healing and wholeness.
Lisa Gidlow Moriarty, artist, spiritual director and professional labyrinth maker and facilitator, is an internationally recognized presenter with a passion for leading others in use of labyrinths in the spiritual journey. International journeys to sacred sites continuously inform her work as she designs and installs labyrinths for schools, hospitals, churches and individuals. She is past president of The Labyrinth Society and owner of Paths of Peace (www.pathsofpeace.com) in Stillwater, MN, where she is the caretaker of over a dozen outdoor labyrinths.
Sacred Journey Autumn Gathering
Saturday, October 26, 2013 from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm
at the Tula Yoga & Wellness
99 N. Snelling Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
Join us for a day dedicated to self-care and self-compassion.
Our main workshop is Practicing Love, Compassion and Care, facilitated by Kristen Wernecke.
Kristen is a non-denominational minister of healing who has been practicing massage therapy and energy healing since 1990. Her training has included energy healing with Ron Moor at the Center for Wholeness. She is trained in Chi Gung healing with Master Chun Li Ying, psychic development with Renee Brown, Emotional Freedom Technique with founder Gary Craig, Cranio-Sasracral and Healing Touch. Kristen teaches grounding meditation, energy healing and is the author of “Choosing Conscious Health for a Vibrant Life”.
In addition to Kristen’s workshop, you also will have the opportunity to learn techniques for self-massage, enjoy a great lunch – all with the companionship of widowed people who get this journey. Please join us for an unforgettable day of friendship, support, fun, learning and lots of chocolate.
Sacred Journey Winter Gathering
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
at the Minnesota Waldorf School
70 County Road B East, St. Paul
http://mnwaldorf.org/maps-and-directions
Artmaking as a Healing Tool
Join us to make your own treasure box. We will use a variety of mixed media to craft a box to hold your own wishes, hopes, dreams, keepsakes and memories. In the artmaking process we will each explore our past, present, and future. We will put intention into the box of all we hold dear. We will use layering of paint, collage, fabric, photos, clippings and other found items. Please feel free to bring your own photos, bits of fabric, or other small treasures you want to use in the making of your box. Everyone is an artist and this box will an expression of your and your unique grieving and healing.
This session will be facilitated by the incomparable, Robin Getsug. Robin has a Masters degree in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy.
She has been making art her entire life and knows the ups and downs of life and has seen and experienced the power of art to bring healing in difficult times.
Art is a way for us to get in touch with the truth of our soul. No prior artistic ability is required – this will be a day of fun, reflection and healing.
Sacred Journey Autumn Gathering
October 27th, 2012
Registration begins at 8:30 am
Healing Hearts Program from 9 am to 3:30 pm
at the Minnesota Waldorf School
70 County Road B East, St. Paul
http://mnwaldorf.org/maps-and-directions
Rhythms of Empowerment – Healing Hearts
This will be a wonderful day of healing and support, facilitated by
Tandy Bowman the founder of Servant Hearts.
Tandy is a Trained HealthRhythms Facilitator, Reflective Music Facilitator,
and Certified Anger Management Provider.
Tandy uses a comprehensive whole-person, therapeutic approach to learning,
living and non-verbal expression. Our work with her will foster creative expression, inner healing,
and will help us on our grief journey. This session will build community and self-confidence, and will provide support and opportunities for life-changing breakthroughs.
We will serve lunch, snacks and lots of chocolate. Join us for fun, friendship, support, healing and HOPE for the future.
If you are a holistic practitioner, hospice worker, artist, energy worker, bereavement counselor or work in a field that supports people in mourning and would iike to talk to us about presenting at a Gathering please email suzann at griefproject dot org.