THE GRIEF REFLECTIONS.
Date to be announced
By the time I reached 49 I had lost two babies, a best friend, and both my parents (my mother died weeks before the birth of my third child). It is not wasted on me that my name ‘Remi’ means grief in the Yoruba language, translating literally as ‘god consoles me’ or ‘god consoles my tears.’
What life has taught me is that the more pain I experienced, the more I learnt about the infinite capacity of my heart, and my ability to heal (with love). It is from this teaching, and from the lived experience of grief, that The Grief Reflections was born.
In this two-day workshop we move through a model that helps us to stay with these difficult life experiences - experiences that carry the force to shatter us - alongside the demands of daily life. The tension between such huge, rippling experiences and the everyday, is part of the dynamic energy of grief - and we can learn to ride these fluctuations with grace.
We will look at how we can hold the extraordinary polarities of the grief space within, whilst attending to the daily demands of our lives. And we will see how death births new life in us, new insight, and the power to love more deeply, if only we can let it. We will explore ways in which we can express grief without self-censorship, and how to accompany ourselves and one another in such a way that we can receive more fully all that death has to show us about being alive.