Healing In Tides of Grief: A Community Circle
About this Event
As we gather together around a bonfire we will share, reflect, journal, sing, and conclude with a ritual to visualize holding our collective grief as we release it to the Sound.
All belief systems are welcome. Open to adults 18+.
This event will be outdoors at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park - Lower Shelter. Park in the lower parking lot. The trail to the beach is in the southwest corner of the parking lot, and is a 1/4 mile walk down a trail with a short steep section. Please bring a camp chair or cushion to sit on, a water bottle, journal, weather appropriate clothing or sun protection.
Grief Background and Inspiration:
We carry grief with us every day: grief over lost loved ones or pets, major life transitions, diagnosis, parts of ourselves that hold shame or guilt, world events, climate changes, and cultural loss to name a few forms. As humans, we were born to feel and process our feelings in community, with support of the village at our back for these major life sorrows. In our modern society, we may feel an expectation to grieve alone or suppress our grief. This can lead to anxiety, depression, illness, and isolation. Doing this work together allows us to connect our hearts and be witnessed in our deepest depths. It allows us to move this energy and make space for joy, playfulness, and gratitude.
This community space is inspired by the work of Frances Weller (Book the Wild Edge of Sorrow), Martin Prechtel, and from the community grief rituals hosted by many in the Puget Sound Area including Sacred Groves, Laurence Cole, Mary Hart, Northwest Grief Tending (Siena Tenisci), Ahlay Blakely, Peter Jabin, and their teachers including Sobonfu and Malidoma Some.
Energy Exchange:
Financial energy exchange allows us to offer this important healing space that requires our time, supplies, rental fees, and overhead to facilitate. Please self-select a ticket price that matches your current financial means:
$50 - Supporting Ticket This ticket covers operating expenses and facilitator time. Select this ticket if you are regularly able to eat out, take annual vacations, own a car and/or house, do not have difficulty paying monthly bills.
$35 - Sustaining Ticket: This ticket covers base expenses and some facilitator time. Select this ticket if you need to more carefully budget and do not have means to eat out regularly or take regular vacations, you may have more debt or currently unstable income.
Scholarships: Aftermath Agency and Light Rei Healing Arts are commited to creating accessible healing spaces for all. There are 2 free scholarship tickets available on a first come first serve basis. We trust that you will select this ticket only if you are in financial hardship, where purchasing a ticket would mean that you are not able to put food on the table or pay your bills this month.
About the Facilitators:
Kim Varner, Grief Mentor, has been a student of community grief ritual for years, tending her own extensive personal, ancestral and communal grief. She completed a grief tending mentorship program and began facilitating grief circles in the Edmonds area in 2024, focused on introducing grief work to her community and weaving in various healing modalities and rituals.
Sheila Kunkel, Owner of Light Rei Healing Arts, is a seasoned Energy Intuitive and Community Weaver. Her work is dedicated to supporting others in deepening their understanding of themselves, aligning with their higher wisdom, and cultivating meaningful relationships through community.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 61.02
