Join Francis Weller as we gather to remember the intimacy between grief and gratitude, love and loss.
2-Day Depth Workshop: Drinking the Tears of the World
Friday, March 22nd 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Saturday, March 23rd 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Wasatch Center at the Episcopal Center of Utah
75 S 200 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Tickets: $450 ($425 for Members) – SOLD OUT
Please bring a ready-to-eat lunch to each day of our workshop together.
13 CEUs included for Utah Mental Health Professionals
Featured Local Artist: Jenna Louise
Generously supported by member Vivia Baldwin
“What we most need to do, is to hear within us, the sounds of the earth crying.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
Grief finds its way into all our lives through losses great and small. This two-day gathering is an invitation to enter the healing ground of grief and tend our communal sorrows.
We come together to turn our attention to the grief we carry for the wider community of glaciers and kelp beds, prairie dogs and songbirds, rising sea levels and refugees, the silencing of languages and the ravages to our more-than-human kin. Through writing practice, poetry, singing, and a potent earth ritual, we will bring our stories of loss into the visible world where they can be held within the welcoming embrace of community and the sacred.
This is soul activism, and it is what we are called to embody in these extreme times. Join us as we remember the intimacy between grief and gratitude, love and loss. Let us gather and acknowledge our shared affection for our beleaguered and beloved earth.
About Francis Weller:
Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of the bestselling, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, and In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He is the Founder/Director of WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic and spiritual traditions.
Francis received two Master’s Degrees from John F. Kennedy University in Clinical Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology. His work was featured in The Sun magazine, The Utne Reader and most recently he was a guest on “All There Is” with Anderson Cooper. He is completing his third book, Facing the World with Soul and Why It Matters.
About our Featured Local Artist: Jenna Louise
Jenna is a self taught artist from Grand Junction, Colorado. She grew up in a family of talented artists, but didn’t try her hand in art until a few years ago. Instead, she achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and found herself caught in the grip of addiction for several years. Jenna had many failed attempts at sobriety, but finally found healing in the process of creating.
Jenna’s work focuses on female figures and portraits with the use of oil and acrylic, reflecting on social conditioning and its effect on our human behavior. With the use of contrast between dark and light, she hopes to capture beauty in the dissonance.