Xook k'iin
Grief and Harm reduction
Workshop with Camille Sapara Barton on grief as part of collective care work
28. September 2024
14.00-17.30
14.00-17.30
Save the Date
for adults
in English
The workshop will explore why it's important to grieve in this time, how we can support ourselves with challenging emotions, and give care in ways that reduce harm. This is particularly relevant for people organizing for social change as well as artists, facilitators, and people engaged in care work.
Register here
Many people struggle with grief and seek to numb in order to bypass it because they do not have other strategies to metabolize what is arising. This ongoing numbing can cause health issues over time as well as other forms of harm related to substance use. Grief rituals provide an alternative to constant numbing, even if practiced once a month.
The workshop will include somatic practices, context, partner exercises, three examples of grief rituals and some nervous system education. Medicinal tea will be available - Passionflower and Rose - which can be supportive to reduce anxiety and support the nervous system.
If you would like to participate you can register via participate@spore-initiative.org. Spaces in the workshop are limited. Please share with us how are you involved in collective forms of grief work and/or how are they relevant to you as an activist, community organizer, artist or teacher
Camille Sapara Barton (they/she) is a writer, artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and livable futures. Barton works across the realms of embodied social justice, grief, harm reduction and the cultural sector. Camille Sapara Barton is also the author of the newly published book “Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community”
