I am excited to be a part of the Ancestral Voices panel at Black Love Convergence 2023.
Come join me as we explore Messages from the Stars through divination, ancestral veneration, lightwork, astrology, and more!
Go over and sign up at bit.ly/blackloveconvergence2023
With the pandemic being “over” many of us cannot use that as an excuse to not engage with family or other holiday obligations. Perhaps this is the first time in years you are entertaining reconnection and you are worried. Are you afraid you feel your boundaries will be forgotten or challenged? Perhaps you are wondering how to create space. Or are you wondering how to maintain your peace and growth?
You are not alone.
The health and alignment of our spirit matter as much as that of mind and body. Spirit offers root when there appears to be none. In a time when we are inundated daily with violence, fear-based propaganda, illness, violations of human rights, and shifts in climate to mirror it, we need to find ways to stay present and nurture an ongoing connection with what matters most. We need to stop draining our energy in reaction and create an embodiment of aligned response.
This virtual gathering is a practice of sacredness, of sacred inquiry to deepen our roots to weather change, challenge, and uncertainty. It will keep us dreaming and sculpting what we want to see and how we want to show up. Each meeting consists of pithy teachings, contemplative prompts, guided meditations, yoga nidra, and collective conversation. We will create a contemplative creative community in service of opening to Spirit to offer support, stability, and insight in emergent ways.
If you identify as Black, Brown, or a member of the global majority, come join us online Thursday 8 - 9:30AM PST from October 27 - November 17th, 2022. In the season of giving, consider offering this to someone who may benefit!
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” - Toni Morrison
Mental health is trending. At first I was excited. Finally, the field is getting noticed as integral to health. Then I felt a tremendous amount of responsibility and pressure as the demand for a Black and often Black and Queer provider kept pouring in. It further highlighted the ways the demand was more than what was available and the ways the system was unchanging. This angered me.
I rushed through my doctorate program like a slave escaping a plantation. I then spent years afterward recovering from the impact of being in a white institution. And by recovering it was digesting the micro- and blatant aggressions, reclaiming identity, realigning with the truth of holistic healing, and weaving back the spirit-body. I know many who have been through similar experiences and never got to name it because they were one of the few Black beings present and then they kept it moving.
Over the years I decentered the label of clinical psychologist and centered the ways of a healer. This way honored holistic approach, connection with ancestors and spirit, of community, of emergence, and de-centered Eurocentric norms of diagnosing, of problem-focused and often inhuman approaches.
This is an on-going process and one that cannot be without acknowledging the space of power and privilege I hold in having a doctorate in the hierarchy of mental health. I want to use that power and privilege to bridge the conversation across all disciplines of mental health from social work to marriage and family, from psychotherapy to guides to address being a Black mental health provider in these times. There are so many divisions in how we regard health and these power dynamics and capitalist-bound divisions continue to truncate the overall health of the people we serve.
What it is:
- collective discussion on mental health
- intersectional Black identity in mental health
- de-centering Eurocentric norms in mental health
- roles of ancestor and spirit
- and all that emerges in the discussion
What it is not:
- supervision towards licensure
- space for solving problems
- space for case consultation
Join me online Tuesday October 4, 2022 at 4PM PST/ 7PM EST in collective discussion on how to honor and be in collaboration with the gifts of our field, discuss the identity of a health professional in these times, discuss Black identity in offering health.
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” - Toni Morrison
Mental health is trending. At first I was excited. Finally, the field is getting noticed as integral to health. Then I felt a tremendous amount of responsibility and pressure as the demand for a Black and often Black and Queer provider kept pouring in. It further highlighted the ways the demand was more than what was available and the ways the system was unchanging. This angered me.
I rushed through my doctorate program like a slave escaping a plantation. I then spent years afterward recovering from the impact of being in a white institution. And by recovering it was digesting the micro- and blatant aggressions, reclaiming identity, realigning with the truth of holistic healing, and weaving back the spirit-body. I know many who have been through similar experiences and never got to name it because they were one of the few Black beings present and then they kept it moving.
Over the years I decentered the label of clinical psychologist and centered the ways of a healer, weaving the healing traditions of my lineage – blood and chosen. This way honored holistic approach, connection with ancestors and spirit, of community, of emergence, and de-centered Eurocentric norms of diagnosing, of problem-focused and often inhuman approaches.
This is an on-going process and one that cannot be without acknowledging the space of power and privilege I hold in having a doctorate in the hierarchy of mental health. I want to use that power and privilege to bridge the conversation across all disciplines of mental health from social work to marriage and family, from psychotherapy to guides to address being a Black mental health provider in these times. There are so many divisions in how we regard health and these power dynamics and capitalist-bound divisions continue to truncate the overall health of the people we serve.
What it is:
- collective discussion on mental health
- intersectional Black identity in mental health
- de-centering Eurocentric norms in mental health
- integrating roles of ancestor and spirit
- and all that emerges in the discussion
What it is not:
- supervision towards licensure
- space for solving problems
- space for case consultation
Join me online Tuesdays on October 4, 18, November 1, 15, 29 & December 13 at 4PM PST/ 7PM EST in collective discussion on how to honor and be in collaboration with the gifts of our field, discuss the identity of a health professional in these times, discuss Black identity in offering health. Pay What You Can. Suggested donation $15 to Venmo: @drg_22 or PayPal: @drg@claudelleglasgow.com
Uncertainty feels like a long time stay, doesn’t it? Do you find yourself having a difficult time knowing what to do in the space in-between? Have you gone to the protest, signed the petitions, done “the work” and are asking yourself “Now what?”
In the gap between action and manifestation, sometimes unwanted guests come knocking – be it fear, grief, anxiety, or others. These guests can crowd our house of self and make it difficult to reconnect to what really matters.
The conditions of our spirit matter as much as that of our mind and body. Spirit offers root when there appears to be none. In a time when we are inundated daily of the dissolve of our lands, violence, illness, and violations of human rights, we need to find ways to stay present and nurture an ongoing connection with what matters most to us versus draining our energy in reaction to the myriad of atrocities lining our feed.
This gathering is a practice of sacredness, of sacred inquiry to deepen our roots as the torrents of change pass through. It will keep us dreaming and sculpting through the pen what we want to see. Through teachings, multiple practices, poetry, small group work, play in between sessions, and large group invitations, we will create a contemplative writing community in practice of emergence and opening to Spirit, however you define it, to offer support and insight.
If you identify as QT/BIPOC join Dr. g for 5 weeks Thursdays starting September 1, 2022 8:00 - 9:30 AM PST for a 90-minute practice of sacred inquiry. Every meeting will include:
30 minutes of contemplative practice (meditation, yoga nidra, etc) led by Dr. g
30 minutes of quiet time to write
30 minutes to share in small group & large group discussion on connection with uncertainty
Loss is one of the most complex and unpredictable of human experience. The impact of loss is often what we call grief. Grief can be “simple,” but more often, it is complicated. Complicated because we experience loss after loss with little time to process it. Not only can it be complicated to experience, but it can be be complicated to name, feel, and express.
There is no one “socially acceptable” way to express grief. For QT/BIPOC this may be additionally layered because of the ways society has policed and confined our bodies – worldwide. It is of utmost importance for us not only to reclaim the power of our bodies but also the ways our body needs to move, or not move, in grief. Unexpressed grief can get stuck, creating more toxicity in one's own body, impacting how one moves in the world. The inability to move freely has been amplified in these pandemic times and we can see worldwide how it is breeding illness in every facet of society from the land to the digital world.
How to grieve is a practice in every culture has and done in community. Community has become an evolved word which now encompasses not only those physically around us, but may extend virtually. We are now in a space to reconnect to culture loss and also create one that fits for the intersectional now. This is our space as QT/BIPOC to grieve together. This is our space to honor the intersections of our cultures and our stories. This is community care.
Join Dr. g for a 2-part offering Tuesday August 2 & 9, 2022 4-5:30PM PST around the body and grief across the Diaspora. In this space we will learn different expressions of grief, speak to our own intersections, practices, and learn skills to help hold community.
If you identify as QTBIPOC or BIPOC you are encouraged to sign up.
Join me & Lama Rod Owens on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 4:00PM PST for the beginning of a special three-part BIPOC gathering to explore our relationship to grief and joy as we work through pain and the various forms of violence we face as people of color. I look forward to seeing you on July 5th. Please submit your questions on Instagram at @garudagrin or @lamarodoffical.
Four years ago, Elliott Bay played host to an evening celebrating the imminent nuptials of poets Paige Lewis and Kaveh Akbar with a wonderful, overflowing with riches group reading, wherein an extraordinary array of poets read single poems open mic-style. Something of that energy is being summoned this evening, though the occasion is one of celebration, gratitude, and good sending off, as beloved Seattle poets/artists/teachers/performers of Black queer radiance and power, Anastacia-Reneé and Naa Akua, set forth to set up homebase in New York City after nearly two decades here. They will be missed, for sure - their artistry, their comradely support of others, their very spirit. Seattle is a better place for them having been here. Lucky New York, now. This list will change between the time this listing is posted and the night happens, but as of typing time those included onstage this evening are Sierra Nelson, Kamari Bright, Sarah Salcedo, Ching-In Chen, Corrine Manning, Ebo Barton, Roberto Ascolon, c.r. glasgow, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Juan Carlos Reyes, Ezra, and Anastacia-Reneé and Naa Akua will also be among those reciting/presenting/performing.
Registration Optional Here
Our lives move and pulse because our hearts beat - there is compression and rest. Aren’t we fortunate that we do not have to fully attend to it? I don’t know about you, but I would surely forget!
All too often, our lives may skip a beat, maybe even several, and we get locked into compression. We might get overwhelmed, disoriented, or just drop the ball on things. All these are normal responses to stress, and, we don’t need to stay here. We all need reminders to hold intentional space to reassess and realign. Starting or restarting it alone may feel daunting to you, but rest assured, you are not alone.
If you are ready to deepen your understanding of your personal rhythm, learn how to align with it for more peace and centeredness, and you want to do this in community, then this is the group for you.
In the Month of May Dr. g will be centering Q & A for mental health and youth mental health. Although Dr. g cannot offer diagnosis, they will offer helpful suggestions to working with BIPOC mental health concerns.
Each group will be an enriching one hour and contain guided practice/short talk by Dr. g on topics such as:
creating sacred space within yourself and in your life for protection and renewal
micro-rituals that support you in touching into what is centering when clock time is short
reflection/journal prompts that assist to open to unconscious wisdom
navigating 2022 with deep alignment
smaller groups for conversation
large group discussion on emergent/collective themes
It with hopes you leave each group slower, re-centered, and connected to self and maybe a buddy.
Join me the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays starting in April 2022 5-6 PM PST. We ask that you dial in 5 minutes early and stay for the entirety of time to get the full effect of recommitting to you.
Sliding Scale Offering:
Root: $25/group [You are unable or struggle to meet your basic needs and have little to no expendable income]
Heart: $50/group [You can meet your basic needs and have some expendable income]
Presence: $75/group [You can comfortable meet your basic needs and have expendable income]
This spring, the 2021-22 Hugo House Fellows invite you to their reading, “Rituals for Perennial Awakening: a reading inspired by & in search of healing.”
The Fellows will read from the projects they’ve been working on during the Hugo Fellowship, part of our program that provides support to emerging writers. Hear work from Scott Bentley, s.c. bostwick, C.R. Glasgow, Marguerite Harrold, Rebecca Marrall, and Troy Osaki. Writers-in-residence Jessica Mehta and Ruth Joffre, who served as mentors for this class of Fellows, will emcee.
You can read more about the 2021–22 Hugo Fellows and their projects here.
Catch the recording here.
"You are not a machine. Stop grinding." - Tricia Hersey of Nap Ministry
We are cultured to churn to produce answers, while often, the answers we are seeking are truly contained in questions and musings beyond our concrete and biased thoughts. This is an invitation to attune with the wisdom of deep listening brought by the Aries New Moon and to call in and connect with other forms of support such as Nature, God/dess, Spirit/deities and ancestors of blood and communal lineages. In order to access this sacred conversation, join Dr. g in a live on select Thursdays 4:30-6:00PM PST for a 90-minute practice of sacred inquiry.
During this live session, we will discuss the lesson of total lunar eclipse in Scorpio occuring May 15, 2022 9:14 PM PDT and use the technologies of Yoga Nidra, writing, art, poetry, and silence in service of:
moving deeper into relationship with the spaces of uncertainty
strengthening connection with your innate wisdom
create ways to connect with supportive wisdom (i.e., Nature, God, spirit, ancestor) that fits you
Our lives move and pulse because our hearts beat - there is compression and rest. Aren’t we fortunate that we do not have to fully attend to it? I don’t know about you, but I would surely forget!
All too often, our lives may skip a beat, maybe even several, and we get locked into compression. We might get overwhelmed, disoriented, or just drop the ball on things. All these are normal responses to stress, and, we don’t need to stay here. We all need reminders to hold intentional space to reassess and realign. Starting or restarting it alone may feel daunting to you, but rest assured, you are not alone.
If you are ready to deepen your understanding of your personal rhythm, learn how to align with it for more peace and centeredness, and you want to do this in community, then this is the group for you.
In the Month of May Dr. g will be centering Q & A for mental health and youth mental health. Although Dr. g cannot offer diagnosis, they will offer helpful suggestions to working with BIPOC mental health concerns.
Each group will be an enriching one hour and contain guided practice/short talk by Dr. g on topics such as:
creating sacred space within yourself and in your life for protection and renewal
micro-rituals that support you in touching into what is centering when clock time is short
reflection/journal prompts that assist to open to unconscious wisdom
navigating 2022 with deep alignment
smaller groups for conversation
large group discussion on emergent/collective themes
It with hopes you leave each group slower, re-centered, and connected to self and maybe a buddy.
Join me the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays starting in April 2022 5-6 PM PST. We ask that you dial in 5 minutes early and stay for the entirety of time to get the full effect of recommitting to you.
Sliding Scale Offering:
Root: $25/group [You are unable or struggle to meet your basic needs and have little to no expendable income]
Heart: $50/group [You can meet your basic needs and have some expendable income]
Presence: $75/group [You can comfortable meet your basic needs and have expendable income]
"You are not a machine. Stop grinding." - Tricia Hersey of Nap Ministry
We are cultured to churn to produce answers, while often, the answers we are seeking are truly contained in questions and musings beyond our concrete and biased thoughts. This is an invitation to attune with the wisdom of deep listening brought by the Aries New Moon and to call in and connect with other forms of support such as Nature, God/dess, Spirit/deities and ancestors of blood and communal lineages. In order to access this sacred conversation, join Dr. g in a live on select Thursdays 4:30-6:00PM PST for a 90-minute practice of sacred inquiry.
During this live session, we will discuss the lesson of the new moon and use the technologies of Yoga Nidra, writing, art, poetry, and silence in service of:
moving deeper into relationship with the spaces of uncertainty
strengthening connection with your innate wisdom
create ways to connect with supportive wisdom (i.e., Nature, God, spirit, ancestor) that fits you
Our lives move and pulse because our hearts beat - there is compression and rest. Aren’t we fortunate that we do not have to fully attend to it? I don’t know about you, but I would surely forget!
All too often, our lives may skip a beat, maybe even several, and we get locked into compression. We might get overwhelmed, disoriented, or just drop the ball on things. All these are normal responses to stress, and, we don’t need to stay here. We all need reminders to hold intentional space to reassess and realign. Starting or restarting it alone may feel daunting to you, but rest assured, you are not alone.
If you are ready to deepen your understanding of your personal rhythm, learn how to align with it for more peace and centeredness, and you want to do this in community, then this is the group for you. Join us on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month starting in April to invest in you, fully.
Each group will be an enriching one hour and contain:
guided practice/short talk by Dr. g on topics such as
creating sacred space within yourself and in your life for protection and renewal
micro-rituals that support you in touching into what is centering when clock time is short
reflection/journal prompts that assist to open to unconscious wisdom
navigating 2022 with deep alignment
smaller groups for conversation
large group discussion on emergent/collective themes
It with hopes you leave each group slower, re-centered, and connected to self and maybe a buddy.
Join me the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays starting in April 2022 5-6 PM PST. We ask that you dial in 5 minutes early and stay for the entirety of time to get the full effect of recommitting to you.
Sliding Scale Offering:
Root: $25/group [You are unable or struggle to meet your basic needs and have little to no expendable income]
Heart: $50/group [You can meet your basic needs and have some expendable income]
Presence: $75/group [You can comfortable meet your basic needs and have expendable income]
Our lives move and pulse because our hearts beat - there is compression and rest. Aren’t we fortunate that we do not have to fully attend to it? I don’t know about you, but I would surely forget!
All too often, our lives may skip a beat, maybe even several, and we get locked into compression. We might get overwhelmed, disoriented, or just drop the ball on things. All these are normal responses to stress, and, we don’t need to stay here. We all need reminders to hold intentional space to reassess and realign. Starting or restarting it alone may feel daunting to you, but rest assured, you are not alone.
If you are ready to deepen your understanding of your personal rhythm, learn how to align with it for more peace and centeredness, and you want to do this in community, then this is the group for you. Join us on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month to invest in you, fully.
Each group will be an enriching one hour and contain:
guided practice/short talk by Dr. g on topics such as
creating sacred space within yourself and in your life for protection and renewal
micro-rituals that support you in touching into what is centering when clock time is short
reflection/journal prompts that assist to open to unconscious wisdom
navigating 2022 with deep alignment
smaller groups for conversation
large group discussion on emergent/collective themes
It with hopes you leave each group slower, re-centered, and connected to self and maybe a buddy.
Join me Wednesdays, March 9 & March 23, 2022 5-6 PM PST. We ask that you dial in 5 minutes early and stay for the entirety of time to get the full effect of recommitting to you.
Sliding Scale Offering:
Root: $25/group [You are unable or struggle to meet your basic needs and have little to no expendable income]
Heart: $50/group [You can meet your basic needs and have some expendable income]
Presence: $75/group [You can comfortable meet your basic needs and have expendable income]
We are cultured to churn to produce answers, while often, the answers we are seeking are truly contained in questions and musings beyond our concrete and biased thoughts. This is an invitation to attune with the wisdom of deep listening brought by the Pisces New Moon and to call in and connect with other forms of support such as Nature, God/dess, Spirit/deities and ancestors of blood and communal lineages. Embodied Astrology is honored to welcome Dr. g in holding this sacred conversation and inquiry.
During this live session, we will access the technologies of Yoga Nidra, writing, art, and silence in service of:
moving deeper into relationship with spaces of uncertainty
strengthening connection with your innate wisdom
creating ways to connect with supportive wisdom (i.e., Nature, God, spirit, ancestor) that fits you
Sliding Scale Offering:
Root: $25
Heart: $50
Presence: $75
Limited scholarship is available for BIPOC participants only; click here for information.
Join Alua Arthur, founder of Going with Grace, and Dr. g in a community conversation about the ways we can hone our ground in spaces of uncertainty. Register for the conversation at Going with Grace .
Interested in joining an online community for death doulas and community healers? Check out Going with Grace for more information.
The fifth hour (4–5pm PST) will offer students the opportunity to learn from current Hugo House Fellows—novelists, poets, essayists—writers who have been published and are becoming published. These panelists will talk about their varied paths to publishing, helping participants to see that the “Writing Life” looks different for everyone, depending on who you are, what is available to you, and the choices that you make for yourself. This panel will be moderated by former Hugo House Fellow Arianne True.
Join the current Hugo House Fellows for their mid-year reading.
Built around the theme of “intimacies,” this event will explore coming and going, discovery and shedding, what to water and what to hold further away.
The 2021–22 Fellows will read from the projects they’ve been working on during the Hugo Fellowship, part of our program that provides support to emerging writers. Hear work from Scott Bentley, s.c. bostwick, c.r. glasgow, Marguerite Harrold, Rebecca Marrall, and Troy Osaki. Writers-in-residence Jessica Mehta and Ruth Joffre, who served as mentors for this class of Fellows, will emcee.
This reading will take place via Zoom. RSVP at the “Tickets” link.
You can read more about the 2021–22 Hugo Fellows and their projects here.
Replay available here
Dr. g will be speaking at the Trauma Super Conference 2021 and presenting “Trauma Healing: Remembering to Forget”. Use this special link to join! Register Here.
About the Trauma Super Conference
The healing event of the year is just around the corner! At the FREE, online Trauma Super Conference you’ll discover how to identify and heal from early life distress, unresolved trauma, pandemic-related stress and loss, PTSD, and more.
Please don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from 70+ of the world’s most respected doctors, psychologists, scientists, healers, and researchers who will speak on all of the following topics and more...
Healing our collective trauma
Understanding and healing relational trauma
The relationship between trauma, substance use, and addiction
Recovering from narcissistic abuse
Stress and burnout as a symptom of trauma
Hip hop as a form of therapy
Navigating the journey of grief
The power of functional medicine for healing
Trauma as a lens to understand cultural mistrust
Dr. g will be speaking at the Trauma Super Conference 2021 and presenting “Trauma Healing: Remembering to Forget”. Use this special link to join! Register Here.
About the Trauma Super Conference
The healing event of the year is just around the corner! At the FREE, online Trauma Super Conference you’ll discover how to identify and heal from early life distress, unresolved trauma, pandemic-related stress and loss, PTSD, and more.
Please don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from 70+ of the world’s most respected doctors, psychologists, scientists, healers, and researchers who will speak on all of the following topics and more...
Healing our collective trauma
Understanding and healing relational trauma
The relationship between trauma, substance use, and addiction
Recovering from narcissistic abuse
Stress and burnout as a symptom of trauma
Hip hop as a form of therapy
Navigating the journey of grief
The power of functional medicine for healing
Trauma as a lens to understand cultural mistrust
Jack Straw writers C.R. Glasgow, José Luis Montero, Greg November, Michael Overa, Paulette Perhach, Abi Pollokoff, and Daniel Tam-Claiborne for recording on Zoom. Register
Join us for a reading with this years Jack Straw writers: C. R. Glasgow, José Luis Montero, Greg November, and Michael Overa. Hosted by Jack Straw Writers Program Curator E. J. Koh Register here
Since 1990, Seattle's longest running reading series for new and experienced writers. With open mic, featured readers and open mic opportunities. Second Thursdays.
Join Jack Straw Writers C.R. Glasgow, Patrycja Humienik, Greg November, Paulette Perhach, and Kristie Song
Spiritual warrior Dr. G (Doc/She/This Being) joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (She/They) in conversation around the power of play and presence in the face of life’s transitions. Dr G is a clinical psychologist, death doula, writer, and multidisciplinary teacher who works with individuals to transform their adversity into the grounds for strength by bringing greater awareness to the harmony of body, mind, and spirit. Doc and Lauren offer that deep rest and surrender through Yoga Nidra empowers them to dissolve imposed identities rooted in capitalism and patriarchy. With those influences quieted, the void space between lives and between worlds becomes accessible. From that space, we’re able to connect with the immortality of our collective consciousness, and to our power as individuals living within that collective. Lauren and Dr G encourage us to seek out who we are outside of the constructed systems we navigate. Once we dissolve those edges of being, anything becomes possible.
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BGIO website: https://bit.ly/BGIOPodcast69
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
Today I’m joined by Dr. g for an important conversation to help us dig a little deeper into gender and gender expression. Dr. g and I chatted about the differences between sex and gender identity, destigmatizing gender expression in the Black community, some of the common misconceptions about non-binary people, and strategies for supporting kids in their gender expression.
These are uncertain and heartbreaking times meant to make us feel overwhelmed and immobilized. Part of what dominant culture does is encourage us to push through, rather than feel and move through. Today, our practice is to understand what culture is made of, how toxic it can be, and to honor our feelings and the grief that comes from being alive at this time. Unprocessed grief leads to more individual and collective suffering. We cannot truly cultivate conditions for liberation to occur unless we process our grief.
Over the course of 20 interviews with change-makers, activists, yoga teachers, and spiritual leaders, we’ll explore conversation about grief, its definition, the lessons we’ve learned, collective liberation, rituals and practices, and more.
Beginning January 25th, the FREE Healing in Community Online Summit will consist of:
3 weekly videos — released Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; these videos will be available for all who register throughout the duration of the summit
additional opportunities for engagement and support, in the form of journaling prompts and podcast episodes
a Facebook group to gather for discussion, questions, and feedback
What is healing and what interrupts its process? How can we begin to shift the culture of the healing process from isolation to community-building. Join us for a day of discovering the ways the healing process can bring joy, liberation, and celebration through various contemplative activities.
Register here: https://seattle.shambhala.org/program-details/?id=413003
How do we bring the ancient and powerful wisdom of Buddhist meditation and dharma to benefit the interrelationships in community? What are the harmful pitfalls of social and community relationships that go unchecked, unspoken, and unhealed? Join us for this day and a half long workshop and meditation practice wherein we will examine patterns related to protection, power, and privilege that come up in our contemplative and other communities? The weekend workshop will focus on body awareness practices, meditation practices that foster awareness of the safety of self, other, and community, and talks and discussion groups that orient us toward action plans to build braver, more honest, and more genuine communities.
Register at: https://seattle.shambhala.org/program-details/?id=413002
As part of the Une Bonne Mort, a one day educational death and dying seminar dedicated to helping us better care for and honor the autonomy of the dying, Dr. G will hold space for a conversation addressing the ways our biases interact with meeting the intersectional needs of the dead.
Register here: https://deathsploration.com/une-bonne-mort
