No Way But Through
4 Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma
2 hour pre-recorded INTRO WORKSHOP TO SOMATIC GRIEF work - $37 usd
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No Way But Through
4 Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma
An Intro to Skills & Practices for Releasing All Types of Grief
Monday December 12th, 2022
5-7pm Pacific Standard Time
(Vancouver/LA) via Zoom
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what this program is
No Way But Through is an introduction to grief work with Josea Tamira Crossley
In this 2 hour free session you learn four essential skills to metabolize and move forward from grief and trauma in a gentle, accessible way.
NOTE: You must sign up (above) to receive the zoom link for this event via email ~ limited spots available.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU’RE STRUGGLING WITH:
- Personal grief, loss or trauma
- A sense of emotional overwhelm, numbness, or reactivity
- Grief/overwhelm around climate change or environmental destruction
- Feeling like you’re carrying the weight of the world
- An inability to open up to love/relationship after past hurt
- Unprocessed ancestral grief & trauma
- Social isolation, loss or longing for community, village and connection
- Slow trauma aka developmental trauma, lack of healthy family structure & support, CPTSD, the impact of past abuse
- Systemic Racism, gender/sexuality-bias, socio-economic grief/trauma
- Recent acute grief from a specific loss (i.e. a death or other loss)
- Caregiver fatigue aka the grief you help others process as a space holder, healer, or caregiver
- Long-time deep water grief (may manifest as depression, burnout or unexplained emotions)
- Other unnameable grief
WHY GRIEF WORK?
Amongst the oldest peoples it has been said that grief and gratitude are but two sides of the same mandala called Love, and are so intertwined that if we suppress our grief for too long, we also lose our ability to love fully.
And yet, enduring our grief without support of connection and community can be simply unbearable.
We are conditioned to turn away from or suppress our pain, and we are often encouraged to ‘stay positive’ or ‘look on the bright side.’ This turning away from the pain allows violence to continue in the world, as pain unprocessed soon becomes either so deeply internalized that we get sick, or projected on those we deem “Other.”
In order to return again and again to our fullest joy, aliveness, connection with each other and love for life we must have a space, and the SKILLS to express and process our grief.
BUT WHAT ACTUALLY IS GRIEF?
Most of us aren’t raised with an intimate understanding of grief. It’s not something that we realize we might even be feeling or experiencing in the day to day. In our culture, it’s only really discussed when someone dies.
Grief shows up in unexpected ways. Sometimes we don’t even know we’re lost in the dark woods of grief.
Grief can feel like heartbreak, anger, resentment, stuckness, depression, and even anxiety. With every loss, every life change and transition, every personal evolution, there is grief.
Even if we’re excited about moving in new directions, and becoming more of who we are, we need to grieve the person, life, and experiences that we’re leaving behind.
Not to mention the grief in the world around us, seemingly not ours, yet still felt by our soul, our body, and our heart as we are interconnected with all things.
ABOUT JOSEA TAMIRA CROSSLEY – YOUR FACILITATOR:
I’m committed to helping people to access the innate wisdom of their physical & emotional bodies as a doorway to deeper awakening and freedom. I believe that while 1:1 therapy can be profound and life changing, there are things that can only be healed in the presence of community/group work.
I have over 20 years of study and experience in working with trauma and grief and have been facilitating Grief Ritual and process work for the past four years. My work is grounded in training in Somatic Therapy, Attachment Theory, Healing Sexual Trauma, Deep Nature Connection, Craniosacral therapy, Somato Emotional Release, Shamanic Study, Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga.
I have trained with expert grief facilitators Francis Weller (author, Wild Edge of Sorrow) and Randy Jones (author, Medicine Without an Expiry Date), as well as key Somatic & Relational Therapy teachers Mariah Moser (Relational Somatic Psychotherapy), Peter Levine (SE), Diane Poole Heller (DARe), Irene Lyon (SmartBodySmartMind), Elizabeth Claire Burr (CST, SER & Vijnana Yoga) & 8 Shields Institute.
I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor through the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada and am generally covered by Pacific Blue Cross, Sun Life, Manulife, Claimsecure, Equitable Life of Canada, Alberta Blue Cross & Green Shield and can provide receipts for both 1:1 counselling and group work.
QUESTIONS?
Email me joseatamira@gmail.com
This is for you if you:
- Have experienced a major loss or trauma recently or in the past and want more understanding around how to process it
- Want to understand how depression, burn out, numbness, overwhelm, reactivity or unexplained waves of emotion can be connected to old unprocessed grief and trauma..
- Feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world around climate change, environmental destruction, systemic racism, genocide and other global issues
- Want to know what it means to release old grief & fears that are preventing you from experiencing full intimacy & connection in your current relationships because of past hurt
- Want to understand more about how old ancestral trauma and grief could be affecting your life now and how you can help both yourself as well as future generations
In this 2 hour workshop you will learn four essential skills to metabolize and move forward from grief and trauma in a gentle, accessible way.
Skill #1
Somatic Awakening - how to create allyship with your body for healing
Skill #2
The Power of Pendulation - how it works & why it is necessary
Skill #3
Mindfulness for Grief - the practice of compassion & orienting to the present moment
Skill #4
Building Your Inner Witness - a relational skill & practice!
You will also learn how grief and trauma are DIFFERENT but INTERRELATED, and why you need to know how to work with BOTH in order to heal fully.
let me ask you...
WHY GRIEF WORK?
Amongst the oldest peoples it has been said that grief and gratitude are but two sides of the same mandala called Love, and are so intertwined that if we suppress our grief for too long, we also lose our ability to love fully.
And yet, enduring our grief without support of connection and community can be simply unbearable.
We are conditioned to turn away from or suppress our pain, and we are often encouraged to ‘stay positive’ or ‘look on the bright side.’ This turning away from the pain allows violence to continue in the world, as pain unprocessed soon becomes either so deeply internalized that we get sick, or projected on those we deem “Other.”
In order to return again and again to our fullest joy, aliveness, connection with each other and love for life we must have a space, and the SKILLS to express and process our grief.
but what actually is
Grief?
Most of us aren’t raised with an intimate understanding of grief.
We can go through our days barely noticing that it’s there, under the surface of things.
Other days, we find it hitting us like a tidal wave and taking us down to the ground.
Sometimes we don’t know we’re stuck in grief. We can be feeling heartbreak, anger, resentment, stuckness, depression, and even anxiety and not realize that this is simply a form of unprocessed emotion.
In our culture, grief is only really discussed when someone dies.
Yet with every loss, every life change and transition, every personal evolution, there is an emotional process that needs to unfold.
Even if we’re excited about moving in new directions, and becoming more of who we are, we need to release the energy of the person, life, and experiences that we’re leaving behind.
Not to mention, we carry in our bodies the trouble in the world around us, seemingly not ours, yet still felt by our soul, our body, and our heart as we’re interconnected with all things.
This too, we need a place to metabolize.
So here is something: A carefully curated container to address grief in ALL its forms. A consent-based place where emotion is welcome.
"So, I had this AHA moment I never would have predicted, and wanted to share with you. Your teachings on grief helped to begin my "unravelling" - but the good kind lol. I realized, that grief ENDS. Holy sh#%t!? I had been in a state of grief since my first mother died when I was 14. I NEVER realized it. Then, one morning - there is still the missing, and longing for all of them, so many dead I have. But...without this poignant painful part that makes me panic. It was almost sad when it went away - like losing something so painful but familiar. Just wanted to share that with you. Thanks again!
~Past participant
meet josea
About Your Facilitator
I’m committed to helping people to access the innate wisdom of their physical & emotional bodies as a doorway to deeper awakening and freedom. I believe that while 1:1 therapy can be profound and life changing, there are things that can only be healed in the presence of community/group work.
I have over 20 years of study and experience in working with trauma and grief and have been facilitating Grief Ritual and process work for the past seven years. My work is grounded in training in Somatic Therapy, Attachment Theory, Healing Sexual Trauma, Deep Nature Connection, Craniosacral therapy, Somato Emotional Release, Shamanic Study, Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga.
I have trained with expert grief facilitator Francis Weller (author, Wild Edge of Sorrow), as well as key Somatic & Relational Therapy teachers Mariah Moser (Relational Somatic Psychotherapy), Peter Levine (SE), Diane Poole Heller (DARe), Irene Lyon (SmartBodySmartMind), Elizabeth Claire Burr (CST, SER & Vijnana Yoga) & 8 Shields Institute.
I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor through the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada and am generally covered by Pacific Blue Cross, Sun Life, Manulife, Claimsecure, Equitable Life of Canada, Alberta Blue Cross & Green Shield and can provide receipts for both 1:1 counselling and group work.