Grief Grove - March 2024 - Deep listening to the songs of the heart

With Dr. Stéphanie Marchal and Brooke Arnold-Rochette

March 3, 2024

Date and Time Details: Sunday March 3rd 2024 1pm-6pm

Location: Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging

Address: 119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

Contact: Stéphanie Marchal
Stephanie@CedarSong.org
778-678-4181

Prices
  • CAD $60.00 to CAD $150.00 – Pay what you can. Higher fees will support scholarships. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact us if you need financial support.

 

Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by Earth, community, and ceremony.

Interweaving the language of wild ritual, group ceremony, council sharing practice, and contemplative practices on the land, we will create a community container to mutually support and witness each other as we move into the sacred grounds of grief and love.

On-land/indoor gathering, Sundays 1-6pm, once a season, ongoing yearly, on beautiful Cedar Song land, nestled in parks and visited by a creek.

 

Ground for this work

SAFE CONTAINER FOR EXPRESSION           

HELD BY THE LAND           

NURTURED BY COMMUNITY

 

What to expect:

  • Group ceremony and wild ritual
  • Contemplative practices on the land
  • Council sharing practice

 

The Peace of Wild Things

By Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

 

Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by earth, community, and ceremony.

We might hold the wish that we, too, “come into the peace of wild things”.

 

 

 

About the Leaders

Dr. Stéphanie Marchal

  Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations. She is a wilderness personal guide, and studied with Animas Valley Institute and Francis Weller among others. She works with people toward recovering their wholeness, uncovering their gifts, and applying these in their lives […]

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Brooke Arnold-Rochette

As a ceremonialist, nature-based guide (MA in Ecopsychology) and holistic health practitioner, I've made my passion for celebrating life with heart my life's work. My approach is informed by ongoing study in the holistic health sciences over 25 years, grounded in the belief that human health is deeply embedded in an ecological context—the health of […]

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