Grief Daylong for Bereaved Parents

Join us for an in-person day dedicated to healing and connection. This supportive event is designed especially for parents navigating the complex emotions of losing a child. Spend the day sharing stories, finding comfort, and discovering ways to move forward with understanding and compassion through ritual, creative processes, and community. We will spend a part of the day outside resourced by nature.

Monique and Phoenix lost their 17-year-old son to suicide four years ago and are honored to accompany other parents on this deep journey of grieving together by offering ritual holding and somatic and creative resources that have helped them on their journey. As grief is expressed and honored, it can begin to move—within us and between us—opening the possibility of integration, meaning, and even renewal. Phoenix and Monique are dedicated to offering performance pieces about their own grief journey and holding space for other parents to move through their grief in community.

In this daylong, Monique Miyake will lead you in writing and visual art processes. We will make beauty and meaning out of our pain through collage by creating a grief companion card you can take home with you.

Phoenix Song will lead you through active sounding practices that help you express and soothe,and then offer a passive sound bath where you get to receive nourishment and love through vibration.

You're not alone — come be part of a caring community that truly gets it. This day will soothe your soul and help you feel connected to others in your heartbreak, which will provide some strength as you navigate loss of a child, which is not in the natural order.

Please bring a sack lunch. Bring layers and sun protection. Snacks will be provided.

The venue is a private residence with 5 steps to the front door. It is not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately.

Please reach out if you need financial assistance to attend this daylong. We want to support bereaved parents and will do everything possible to work with your budget.

Bios:

Monique Miyake is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, ritualist, end-of-life doula, hospice RN, and bereaved mother. Her work lives at the intersection of grief, care, and transformation. Her previous solo shows were When the Heavens Opened and Sealskin Soulskin: Finding My Way Home. Grounded in both lived experience and spiritual care, she holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, and is a Reiki master and chaplain trained in Clinical Pastoral Education at UCSF. Monique is a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider and HOPE Mentor through the MISS Foundation. Her original artwork, grief companion deck, prints and grief services including art facilitation are available here: https://www.moniquemiyake.com

Phoenix Song is a queer, nonbinary Korean American adoptee performer, writer, teacher, and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay. They specialize in world fusion and sacred ritual through Korean shamanic music, Indian classical, neo-soul, and wordless chanting. For the last twenty years, Phoenix has performed many solo and collaborative shows at Queer and Asian Conference, Empowering Women of Color Festival, Reimagine Festival at SF Jazz, SF Pride Main Stage, Asian Heritage Festival main stage, the Queer Arts Festival, and SF International Arts Festival. Phoenix loves to help people free their voices to sing, sound and speak their truths in private and group sessions. They hold embodied expressive arts sessions, grief rituals, ancestral healing classes, monthly sound baths at Grace Cathedral in SF. https://phoenixsongmusic.com

I am the one who cries, who never got to say goodbye to the boy with the bowl cut hair, never got to hold him one more time, hear him call my name-Mom. I am the one who looks up at the heavens wondering where you are. Where am I going with this-heart heavy as lead. I am the one who soars ahead, you leading the way. I am the little boy who loves to climb, never afraid until I am afraid. Standing at the edge, I take the leap.

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