Ask A Grief Counselor: Exploring Our Broken Hearts in Community

We are offering a series of gatherings throughout the year to create an open, supportive forum for conversation around grief and grieving. These circles invite you to come with your questions, your experiences, and your tender hearts - to normalize grief, share openly, and feel held in community.

Facilitated by Allison Daily and Robyn Hubbard, both of whom bring many years of experience supporting people through grief in this community and beyond, these gatherings are rooted not only in professional wisdom but in lived experience. Allison and Robyn have walked alongside many forms of loss, including their own, and offer their presence with deep compassion, honesty, and care.

This is a space to ask about your own grief, to seek understanding for what you may be witnessing in others, or simply to listen and learn. Your questions are welcome here, and often, what one person asks serves many. Gathering in this way is an act of courage and an essential step in bringing grief out of isolation, helping to reshape our cultural relationship with loss and the authentic expression of difficult emotions.

Allison and Robyn will respond from the depths of their experience and their tender hearts, offering thoughtful reflections rather than prescriptions, and reminding us that we do not have to grieve alone.

Sliding Scale | Collective Care

This gathering is made possible through a web of generosity - our facilitators Robyn and Allison, our donors, the Connection is the Medicine Foundation, and each person who chooses to participate. Together, we create a model where care, presence, and access are shared.

• Community Rate: $10 – Offered with the understanding that everyone deserves a place in the circle
• Sustaining Rate: $18 – Helps hold this gathering within a subsidized ecosystem
• Generosity Rate: $25 – Offered in the spirit of shared abundance, helping ensure these gatherings remain accessible to all

Your presence matters.

If none of these options feel accessible, please reach out to .

Robyn Hubbard, D.Min., is a spiritual companion, grief counselor, certified dreamwork facilitator, and body-centered practitioner who guides people into the depths of Self - where transformation, resilience, and soul growth emerge.

Her work weaves deep listening, trauma- and resilience-informed care, somatic awareness, embodied movement, and the exploration of dream material from both waking and sleeping states. Drawing from bereavement counseling, depth psychology, biosomatics, and movement practices such as 5Rhythms Dance®, SomaSource®, and Authentic Movement, Robyn’s approach is grounded in the wisdom of the body and shaped by Indigenous and inter-spiritual traditions.

Through mindful awareness, movement, and imagination, Robyn supports clients in bringing unconscious patterns into consciousness, freeing limiting beliefs, and reconnecting with purpose, creativity, and the capacity to give back.

You can learn more about Robyn at: www.robynhubbard.com

Allison Daily is the Director of Pathfinders in Aspen, Colorado, and holds a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from University of Santa Monica in California.

Her passion is working with grief and loss clients and finding ways for them to not only process all that they are feeling, but also feel closer to the one they loved and lost.

Allison believes that if the pain and sadness can be a part of the honoring and remembrance, then healing has begun.

She has a very personal understanding of loss as she lost her dear husband, Art, in December of 2020, as well as her brother to suicide in 1990. Allison lives in Aspen and has two boys, Rider and Burke.

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At True Nature and Connection is the Medicine Foundation, we strive to create intentional, nourishing spaces and experiences for community connection and personal growth. To support a respectful and easeful experience for all, please view our, also listed below.

If you have any questions, you may contact Megan Miller, Director of Education and Programming at [email protected]

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This programming is brought to you through the Connection is the Medicine Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to co-creating opportunities for people to connect – with self, community, and the natural world – so they can discover meaning, purpose, and happiness in service of our shared consciousness. We envision a world where connection is embodied as a core value that nurtures wholeness within and between us all.

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Where Your Gift Makes a Difference

Because of your generosity, our 2025 programs are thriving. We’ve expanded offerings that nurture meaningful connection—through nature immersion, contemplative practices, youth development, caregiver support, and spiritual inquiry.

If you are interested in donating to support more programming like this, please visit our website: https://connectionisthemedicine.com/donate

or contact Valery Moore Kelly Development Director

[email protected]

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True Nature and Connection is the Medicine Foundation reserve the right to cancel any program or event at any time. In the event of a cancellation by TN or the Foundation, participants will receive a full refund.

Please note that certain programs may have unique cancellation policies—refer to individual program descriptions for specific details.

Unless otherwise noted in the program description:

• Refunds are available (minus processing fees) up to 24 hours prior to the scheduled start time.
• Tickets are transferable to another guest at any time with prior approval from the Event Manager.
• No refunds or credits will be granted for: Cancellations made day-of or after the event has started, No-shows, Early departures, Dissatisfaction with event content or presentation

For all refund or transfer requests, contact Megan Miller, Director of Education and Programming at: [email protected]

To support the integrity of the experience for all participants, we ask that you please observe the following guidelines:

• Arrival Time: Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and settle. Events begin promptly at the scheduled start time.
• Late Attendance: Doors will close at the stated start time (e.g., 6:30 PM) to honor the sacred nature of the container and minimize disruptions, and late arrivals will not be admitted
• Substance Use: We ask that all guests arrive free of the influence of drugs or alcohol to maintain a clear, safe, and respectful space.

What to Bring & Community Care: You’re welcome to bring personal comfort items such as an eye mask, a small pillow, an extra blanket, or a yoga mat.

As these are shared community experiences, we kindly ask that you:

• Be mindful of personal hygiene and health
• Respect personal space and boundaries
• Refrain from using scented products that may affect others

Thank you for co-creating a respectful and enriching experience with us. We look forward to welcoming you into our sacred space.

Community Conduct and Shared Space Guidelines: Connection is the Medicine Foundation programs are designed to foster meaningful connection, reflection, and personal growth within a supportive communal environment. We ask all participants to honor a shared social norm of respect, presence, and care for one another’s experience.

If at any time a participant is experiencing an unusual, heightened, or disruptive reaction or response that impacts the collective space, the Foundation and/or Facilitator reserves the right to intervene and, if necessary, ask the individual to step away from the gathering. This is not intended as a judgment, but as a means of protecting the integrity of the shared experience, ensuring that all participants continue their journey without undue disruption.

We invite all participants to practice self-awareness, personal responsibility, and compassion to help us maintain a safe, welcoming, and nourishing environment for all.

If you have questions or concerns regarding Event Etiquette and Policies, you may reach out to Megan Miller, Director of Education and Programming: [email protected]

Disclaimer and Hold Harmless Agreement: The views and opinions expressed by facilitators during True Nature and Connection is the Medicine Foundation events, discussions, or any related activities are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of True Nature or the Foundation. We are committed to providing a platform for diverse perspectives and open dialogue, and the words of facilitators should be understood as their individual viewpoints. Any information or advice shared by facilitators is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as official statements or endorsements by True Nature or the Connection is the Medicine Foundation. Participants are encouraged to critically evaluate and form their own opinions based on their own judgment and understanding. True Nature assumes no responsibility for the content shared by facilitators and disclaims any liability arising from the use or reliance on such content.

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