Grief Growing Pains: CLASS STARTS TOMORROW

4-week class about grief on the boundaries & consent journey

Hi all, 

I’m teaching my 4-week grief course, Grief on the Boundaries & Consent Journey. 

IT STARTS TOMORROW! 10/22, 2pm-4pm EST

and runs for for weeks (10/29, 11/5, 11/12, bonus reunion session on 12/3)

This is a course about the living losses of being in relationship – coming up against our own or others’ boundaries, limits, unexpected change, rupture and harm, difficulty with self-consent, and growing pains in how we communicate. This is not a course about blaming others for our grief or sense of loss… but about metabolizing the pain that inevitably comes with loving, living authentically, and changing form. It is very much a space for grieving together and giving acknowledgment to all that is ending/evolving.

We’ll cover… 

• what grief is – how I define it, recognize it, how it is exceeds the psychological or behavioral. we’ll give shape to some of the forms grief that tend to be less recognised/supported

• specific types of loss we encounter as we deepen our practice with boundaries & consent – grief for past self, relationships lost or changed, identity changes, ruptures in self-trust, grief related to oppression…

• we’ll learn to identify where grief lands in us – emotionally, physically, socially, in daily function, place & space, thoughts, spiritual and existential beliefs

• we’ll practice supporting our grief in class + through homework: putting care around those places of impact

• we’ll lean on poetry, ritual, photography, bodywork & creativity to help us understand and digest

• we’ll practice “feeling not fixing” and opening to the emotional range of grief

Though we will be focused on living losses, you may find that boundaries and consent grief comes up around loved ones who have passed. In mourning someone, we often have to contend with the ways they hurt us, ways we wish we’d been able to communicate, ways we wish we’d trusted them or ourselves more, ways of loving that didn’t come to pass… This form of B&C grief is more than welcome as pa this class.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach for me!

With love,

Brooks