Seattle Area Grief Retreat w/ Siena Tenisci & Jordan Lyon
Schedule
Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Rite of Passage Journeys | Seattle, WA
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Community Grief RetreatHonoring our grief and gratitude with rituals of renewal
Sat, Mar 29th 9:00 a.m. - Sun, Mar 30th 5:00 p.m.
Location: Bothell, WA at Rite of Passage Journeys Base Camp (20 mins north of Seattle)
EVENT PAGE: https://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org/grief-retreat
***Description***
In many traditional cultures, grief rituals are considered the “glue” of connection that holds the community together. They offer us one of the most powerful means for reweaving our connection and belonging to ourselves, each other, and all our relations.
Join us as we honor the sacredness of our grief and gratitude through talking circles, singing, poetry, movement, practice in sacred listening, ceremony, sharing food, and some quiet time in nature. The heart of our time together will include a sacred ritual inspired by the work of Sobonfu Some and Malidoma Some.
Our work is also inspired by Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief, which help us to welcome in all forms of grief we may be carrying, including:
- Everything we love we will lose
- The places that have not known love
- The sorrows of the world
- The things we cannot even name that we ache for
- Intergenerational or ancestral grief
The spiritual framework for this ritual includes time-honored and earth-based modalities, utilizing the power of drumming and chanting, the belief that the natural world is a rich place of interconnection with all our relations, and the importance of working with the unseen realms, including our ancestors.
We invite you to lean in with us as we remember how to grieve in community. There is no grief too big or too small to be worthy of welcome here.
Meals & Lodging:
Please note that meals and lodging are not included. Attendees will be responsible for finding their own accommodations and bringing sack meals, a dish for a community potluck, and snacks for the community table.
12 participant minimum and 18 participant max
EVENT PAGE: https://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org/grief-retreat
Facilitators:
Siena Tenisci, MA, LMHC, is a therapist, community organizer, and founder of Northwest Grief Tending. She is a descendant of Abruzzese and Celtic peoples - lineages where keening women once held dedicated and respected roles in society as vocal rituals who midwifed collective grief within their communities. Siena has been facilitating grief rituals for over a decade and has been inspired by the work of many teachers and mentors, including Sobonfu & Malidoma Some, Joanna Macy, Therese Charvet, Laurence Cole, Francis Weller, and Vince Horan. She completed her Masters in Counseling at Antioch University in Seattle and is committed to a lifelong practice of dismantling systemic and internalized oppression.
Jordan Lyon is a chef, grief tender, writer and facilitator. His passions and work guide him towards cultivating community through all the ways he creates, weaves, and lives. Primarily through food—a love language of his that nourishes community doing deep work together; through ritual—co-creating emergent ceremonies that reconnect us with the sacred, Mother Nature, and all the cycles of life; and lastly through story—weaving together mythic threads and tapestries that help us remember what we’ve forgotten and reimagine what is possible ahead. He resides on the land of Sacred Groves, a small intentional community on Bainbridge Island in the Salish Sea.
Questions? Please contact Siena at [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Rite of Passage Journeys, 4731 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105-4404, United States,Seattle, WashingtonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
