Healing Waters: Together in Grief

Everything we love we will lose.  Most of us have lost someone or something valuable already.  But grief is not limited to death.  Grief can be present with many life experiences, especially big losses, changes, transitions, or trauma. Grief unfelt, unattended to, or stuffed down interferes with life.  Life is renewed and fed by the cycles and passage of time, but time alone does not heal.  We can re-align back into the flow of life gain vibrancy by harvesting the meaning and purpose from our experiences, especially those that stir grief by tending to these processes intentionally.

This group is for you if one or more of the below are true for you:

  • You have lost a person or pet you cared about to death or other absense from your life
  • You or someone you care about have had life greatly altered by a traumatic event
  • You care about people, nature, or the world in general and have feelings about the changes happening
  • You have had dreams that are really important to you that thus far have been unrealized
  • You have had any impactful loss such as miscarriage, abortion, libido, faith system, home, or loss of innocence
  • You have sadness, anxiety, fear, or compassion fatigue trying to care for others in challenging times
  • You have grief about your or our shared ancestral history and the harms and struggles our ancestors have suffered and caused
  • You have had a major life transition such as loss of job, partner, kids leaving the home, illness, etc…

Join us for a 6 week experiential group to deepen in relationship to grief, form community, be in ritual, support others, and connect more fully to your human experience including life, death, and a more renewed vibrant life.

In this group you will explore, deepen, and strengthen your connection and relationships to:

  • Grief Group Flyer ImageYourself
  • Grief and Loss
  • Healthy Adult Life Development
  • The World’s Challenges and Sorrows
  • Our Relationship with and Impact on Nature
  • People that have lived before you
  • Your ancestry
  • Cycles of life and death
  • Shared human experience

You will leave renewed and re-committed to living fully, nourished and enlivened by the depths of your soul.

Group will meet for 5 weeks of educational and prep work culminating with a final ritual to move through the energies of grief in a supportive community container.

Wednesdays 5:30-7:00PM, September 27-November 1, 2023. (Ritual will be 5:30-9:00).

$300 for series. $70 for ritual alone.  (Stand alone ritual is only an option if you have previously attended a grief ritual. Otherwise, you need to attend at least 4 sessions of the group.)

To register: contact [email protected] or call 970.829.0478.  Your spot will be confirmed after a brief screening and payment in full or a $100 deposit.

Click here for a PDF to Download and Share – Healing Waters Grief Group Flyer 2023

Shares from past participants:

Thanks so much  for creating the Wild Edge of Sorrow group as a safe space for us to share and process our grief.  I knew I had things inside needing to be grieved but I really was not sure such a group would be helpful to me.  Somewhat to my surprise, I felt safe several times to share my pain.  The most moving moments for me were when I saw that others were moved to tears by my grief.  That really supported and moved me deeply…to feel honored and joined in my grieving! -Paul

“I took part in Chuck’s grief group in the fall of 2020. Chuck is very adept at creating a space of trust and safety, which made it easier for us to talk about some of the more difficult themes. The once-a-week gathering was something I looked forward to each week, as it allowed me to focus on myself and my experience, and always left me feeling lighter at the end of the day. Our last get together was steeped in ritual and ceremony, and allowed us to express our grief regarding events we have not been able to fully grieve before. I am so grateful to have been part of such an incredibly healing experience, and would recommend this to everyone, as we all suffer from loss in our lifetime.” —Holly

Facilitator: Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC has been apprenticing with grief since childhood and has been focusing on healthier expressions of grief through ritualized community shared practices over the past decade.  Drawing on conventional western approaches as well as his study with mentors of indigenous practices of America and West Africa Chuck creates a group container creating a supportive healing relationship with all forms of grief we experience in life.