SOULWAVE
Good Grief Collective
Based in West Cornwall
and part of
Dying Matters Awareness Week
All proceeds to
(unless otherwise stated)
The Good Grief Collective warmly invites you to Dying Matters Awareness Week.
This week is about promoting an open culture to highlight the importance of talking about death, dying and grief. As part of this, the newly emerging Good Grief Collective are organising a series of local events to inform and inspire this important enquiry.
The Good Grief Collective is a grouping of local practitioners - from legal, medical, pastoral, therapeutic and creative disciplines - who are passionate about stimulating conversation about death, dying and grief. They are brought together by an emerging understanding that the ways in which we grieve and die are crucial to a healthy community.
For general information contact: Kay Parkinson
Mudita House, 43 Morrab Road, Penzance, TR18 4EX
For information about and booking specific events:
Click on the titles below that interest you, or scroll down.
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✨ Breathing for Healing. Moving for Mending
✨ Eldering - the Sunset Years
✨ Flowing Through Grief: A Biodanza Journey
✨ Ancestral Rhythms Sunset Dance
Breathing for healing. Moving for Mending
Gentle compassionate seated yoga for those coping with grief and loosing life.
Joanna Edge
Monday 5th May, 11am -12noon, at Mudita House Penzance
(Also Wednesday 7th May, 10-11 am, her class in St Gulvas Parish hall TR10 8SG )
Session £10 , suggested minimum charity donation £5 .
Contact Joanna 07970 166675 for bookings.
Jo will be dedicating practises to cultivate movement and breathwork for graceful loss, decline and transition for all those affected by grief, death and dying
Jo has 14 years experience teaching gentle Himalayan yoga, yoga therapy and meditation. Her focus is for wise aging and peace filled end of life transition. Jo works teaching in community, with charities and support groups and is part of No One Dies Alone Cornwall facilitating the Compassion Cafe, Penryn.
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End of the Road - Grief circle
Jos Hadfield
Wednesday 7th May, 10.30 -12pm.
(Also Wednesdays, 7 May, 4 June, 2 July)
The Long Barn, Roselidden Farm, Trevenen Bal, Helston TR13 0PT
For more information and to book a place please contact
01326 558748
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There is no charge, but small contributions are welcome
A Space for Grief
Let us come together to talk openly about loss, as it manifests in all aspects of living and dying.
Our meeting will start with simple exercises to connect with our breath and heart, before enjoying a warming drink and conversation together.
In the safe and confidential space offered at Roselidden we can connect with the process of grieving and all that it means.
Dying Well Surgery
Jessica Lior (previously Cornish): Property, Wills and Probate Solicitor.
Em Dixon: Chaplain at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and End of Life Doula
Dr Frank Davey: Local GP
Friday, 9th May, 2-4pm, Mudita House.
Come along . No advance booking required. Donations to Hospice charities
This session will be an opportunity to ask questions and to discuss medical and legal aspects of the dying and grieving process and the provision of chaplaincy support in hospitals and the community. We'll be discussing wills, advance directives, Treatment escalation plans (TEP), resuscitation decisions, NHS services at the end of life .... And much more.. We may not have all the answers but I'm sure we'll have plenty to discuss!"
Songs To Die For
David Rose, Lyndz Liquid Light, Rachel Smart, Seraphina NicArta
Friday May 9th 7-9pm Mudita House
A community singing circle
Further information and bookings
Eldering - The Sunset Years
with David Rose
Saturday May 10th. 2 - 4pm. Mudita house
All Donations go to the charities (£10 is the suggested donation)
A meeting for Elders* to engage in a creative exchange, and to support each other to be in service to our communities and our world
David intends to facilitate this as an experiential exchange, rather than a talk, or theoretical discussion about Eldering.
He is in an enquiry about what is means to be an elder in these times. This offering comes from a dream and ongoing contemplation:
Growing old can be a state of body and mind where the light and warmth of the sun diminishes, and sunsets are obscured by grey clouds.
Eldering is remembering to look for the beauty in the sunsets, finding authentic gratitude for this life, and embracing the fleetingness of our existence
And whenever possible to use this experience as a power for the good of all
* What qualifies you to attend this event, or to define yourself as an elder, is entirely up to you to decide.
Flowing Through Grief:
A Biodanza Journey of Healing and Connection
Anna Sadler
Saturday 10th May. 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Zedshed, Penryn
Cost: £12.00 + £5.00 suggested charity donation.
Join Anna for a gentle & healing Biodanza class designed to explore movement as a means of expressing grief in a safe and heartfelt space.
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Remembering Our Dead Beloveds with Stitching & Letter Writing
Led by artist Susie Chaikin & poet Rebecca Althaus.
Sunday 11th of May - 2pm to 5pm
Mudita House, 43 Morrab Road, Penzance -
£10 or pay what you can - proceeds go to Cornwall Hospice
To book contact: Rebecca - mob. 07825082555
A practical workshop where we'll be stitching our grief and love into fabric and writing letter poems to our loved ones who have died.
Rebecca will bring pens and paper, and letter-poems written by poets like Emily Dickinson to read for inspiration. Susie will bring fabric, threads and examples of work she has made. The very act of stitching and writing can support a healing conversation within us, helping to express difficult emotions, memories, and the unsaid. Come and create in a relaxed, small group with Susie and Rebecca, and tea and biscuits.
Susie is an artist whose latest work came about from processing the grief around her husband's heart attack and a friend's death from cancer. She stitched the heart and lungs, stitching beauty and thought into harsh moments. Rebecca is a poet and creative researcher who began to write as a way to make sense of her partner's death. She writes poetry about love, death, and grief and is researching long-term grief.
End of the Line Death Cafe
With Rosie Hadden
Monday 12th May 10.30 – 12pm
At Mudita House
Booking enquiries@muditahouse.co.uk
or contact Kay on 07866 573690
Donations to Cornwall Hospice
Death Café is a place to come together to share our hopes and fears around death and dying, a place to honour and share our stories of grief and loss, a place to co-create a community of support. Tea and cake are provided. All are welcome to this small friendly group.
Rosie Hadden has over 5 year’s experience of holding space for death cafes, grief circles and grief tending ceremonies. She is an End-of-Life Doula and trained with Living Well Dying Well. She co-hosts Companionship Cafes with No one Dies Alone in Cornwall and has worked for many years as a Creative Arts Facilitator in the Arts for Health field.
She is a poet and an artist.
An Evening to Remember
with Kay Parkinson
Monday, May 12th, 7.30pm - 9pm
Suggested donation: £5 for Cornwall Hospice/Hospice UK
Booking essential: 12 places available
t: 07866573690
e: enquiries@muditahouse.co.uk
This evening is an opportunity for all who have lost loved ones to gather, remember their dead (however recent or long ago) and to be reminded that we are not alone in sorrow.
We will be invited to sit quietly, share photos of loved ones (if you wish), light a candle and do a guided practice of 'Essential Phowa'. This simple practice is from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It requires no prior experience, faith or belief - anyone can do it! And of course, there will be tea & biscuits.
Kay Parkinson is a long-term practitioner within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has been holding Meditation groups for many years. She has a long standing passion for death and dying, which has found expression in Death Cafes, Dying as Well As We Can and co-founding The Little Death Festival.
Sunset Ancestral Rhythms – Dancing for Dying Matters
Julie Ana Rose
Friday 16 May 6pm – 9pm
Chapel Carn Brea, Penzance, TR19 6HU
25% of profits will go to Hospice UK and Corwall Hospice Care
I often contemplate death at the time of autumn and winter - Samhain and Winter Solstice. The Dying Matters Week is taking place in the full bloom of May, my absolute favourite time of year in Cornwall. And why not contemplate the cycle of death, which is also the cycle of life at this time of fullness and abundance? In my experience, it's only when we face death that we can really fully live our life and honour all of its cycles.
We have chosen to offer this dance as part of the Dying Matters Week at Chapel Carn Brea with its magnificent views of our ancient land here at the tip of Cornwall. There are burial mounds upon this hill and clearly it is an important spot to honour our ancestors and the ancestors of this land. So, we invite you to join us in raising awareness of death and dying in the midst of the abundance of life, though dancing and celebrating the gift of our life as we approach sunset in this time of May Abundance.
About the dance
A vibrant community of dancers gathers to partake in these magical dances. The simple structure offered supports you to connect with your body and your own authentic dance.
Optional Cacao Ceremony
Cacao is an ancient medicine for healing on the mental, physical, and spiritual plane. It opens the heart and induces a feeling of wellbeing; enhancing the experience of meditation, dance, singing and opens channels for heartfelt communication.
Grief Tending Ceremony
David Rose, Rachel Smart, Rosie Hadden, Lyndz Liquid Light
Saturday 24th. 2-9pm
Gulval Village Hall, near Penzance
£65 / £45 (limited concessionary places)
25% of the profits will go to Hospice UK and Cornwall Hospice Care charities
You are invited to this Grief Tending Ceremony.
To come together in these challenging times as a community and co-create a space to connect, to move, express, transform and be witnessed in our grief, in whatever way this emerges.
This ceremony is informed by Sobonfu Somé’s grief sharing from the Dagara Tribe, West Africa, that emphasises the belief that healthy community requires both a place to celebrate and to grieve.
Our intention to reclaim and express grief in its many shapes and forms. In this practice, Grief is embraced as an essential part of being alive, and a healing force for personal & collective transformation