Schedule

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware with Francis Weller

  March 22 - June 14, 2025/Online

  From all observable indicators, the season ahead will be challenging. We have entered what could be called The Long Dark—a time of endings, decay, and dissolution. This prolonged season, spanning a generation or two, will bring tremendous challenges for the earth community. The cumulative losses will touch everything and everyone, and grief will be the keynote for the foreseeable future.

  After many years of offering grief rituals, it has become clear that there is an urgent need to share this work with others. The requests are too many, and the need too pressing. It is essential that we generate a robust community of skilled grief tenders. We invite you to come learn with us.

  The Centre for Climate Psychology will be offering a 3-month online Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware. We’ll be hosting a hybrid of live and pre-recorded sessions co-facilitated by Francis Weller, Steffi Bednarek, and Holly Truhlar.

  For more information: https://www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/workshops/grief-tending-training-with-francis-weller

• Devotions to the Long Dark in the Soulful Life Convivium

  Applications Open Through Mid-April/Wednesdays, 1:30-3:00pm MT

  This is an opportunity to work the rich loam of soul on an ongoing basis in a community of practice and care. We draw upon a wealth of materials, including work our advisor, Francis Weller, has presented over the years. Over the past four years, in our network and live Convivium calls we’ve built a rich and deep communal web with connections all over the world. It’s a true house of belonging that’s soulful and sacred, a unique experience that’s co-held with compassion and reciprocity.

  Our April – June 2025 theme is “Devotions to the Long Dark: Soul Practices for Uncertain Times.” Francis Weller, Kai Cheng Thom, Jessica Radovich, and Desiree Adaway will be joining us as guest guides for this series.

  For more information: https://soulfullife.mn.co/

• Gathering At The Well: 3-Day Grief Ritual

  Friday, June 27 - Sunday, June 29, 2025/Evergreen, Colorado

  Jessi Rado, BJ “Yam” Dwyer, and Holly Truhlar will be co-facilitating this 3-day grief ritual in Evergreen, Colorado. Our grief is meant to be shared and witnessed in village. In our time together, we’ll create a sudden village and warm our grief through writing, movement, song, and embodiment practices. Once the space is potentiated, we’ll deepen into ritual space as our grief is expressed at the altar and held by the village.

  For more information: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/gatheringatthewell

• TENDERS: A 5-day hide tanning, grief tending retreat

  Tuesday, July 15 - Saturday, July 19, 2025/Evergreen, Colorado

  Held by the beauty of Colorado’s mountains, fifteen grief tenders will gather for five transformative days of deep remembering and fortification. TENDERS is an intimate retreat and ritual for those called to work with grief in their communities. We’ll immerse ourselves in the ancient craft of hide tanning, working the hides while also working with our personal and collective griefs. We’ll be exploring what it means to both be held and to hold others.

  Through ritual and shared inquiry, we’ll discover what needs to be witnessed and what needs to soften for us to show up fully for The Long Dark. Together, we’ll craft vessels from the hides we tan, each one infused with our unique medicine. These leather pouches become more than craft—they are holders of our gifts as grief tenders, fortified through ritual to carry back to our communities. This is a convergence of the wild and the sacred, where ancestral wisdom meets present calling.

  For more information: https://hollytruhlar.com/hide-tanning-grief-tending

• the Grieving Ground

  Saturday, August 16 - Sunday, August 17/Lone Hawk Farm in Longmont, Colorado

  The Grieving Ground will be co-hosting this 2-day community ritual in Longmont, Colorado. More information and registration coming soon.

• Unravel | Entangle: Not-So-Curated Conversations about Collapse

  Tuesday Evenings/6:30-7:45pm MT

  Join us for intimate conversations about inhabiting these times of profound change, loss, and possibility together. Every Tuesday evening, we’ll create a communal container where uncertainty is welcomed, relationships are centered, and the mess of collapse becomes our teacher.

  Through conversation, imagination, and embodied practice, we’ll gather around questions like: What if we welcomed both the unpredictable and unimaginable? What is the underculture we want to root in during this time of the Long Dark? What opens up when we shift from problem-solving to mutual learning in the face of polycrisis?

  If this stirs something in you, we’d love to have you join us in this experiment. For more information: https://unravelentangle.mn.co/