Do you feel despair and hopelessness at the state of the world and do not know what to do with these feelings?
From climate disruption to living under an unjust system where we are made to destroy our planet and our humanity, it can be hard to navigate the complex grief that naturally engulfs our hearts. Powerlessness, anxiety, anger, numbness, are but some of the common responses we may experience as we witness the world around us unravel.
The climate crisis may bring up difficult questions around meaning and purpose. It may elicit complex, anticipatory grief as we are part of the system that is killing the world. It may even impact major life choices, like bringing children into this world.
If you find yourself increasingly unsure as to how to stay present to your pain, this workshop is for you.
Our time together will facilitate the emergence of our shared grief and of our deepest love for this planet, its species and for each other. It will offer you a space to explore and befriend the nuances and complexities of your feelings, letting them move through your body.
The workshop is designed to give you an experience of your own resilience, to help you integrate your grief and to offer you tools you can weave into your daily life.
My hope is that our time together will provide a space for you to learn to gently hold your pain and even connect with a sense of meaning.
Fees:
£145 if you book by September 30th
£180 full fee
Some concessions available. Please get in touch to find out more.
About Viviana:
I am an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist of 10+ years, and I work in an intersectional, trauma-informed and integrative way.
If you are a therapist, this may count towards 14 hours of CPD.
“I want a word that means
okay and not okay,
more than that: a word that means
devastated and stunned with joy.
I want the word that says
I feel it all, all at once.
The heart is not like a songbird
singing only one note at a time,
more like a Tuvan throat singer
able to sing both a drone
and simultaneously
two or three harmonics high above it—
a sound, the Tuvans say,
that gives the impression
of wind swirling among rocks.
The heart understands swirl,
how the churning of opposite feelings
weaves through us like an insistent breeze
leads us wordlessly deeper into ourselves,
blesses us with paradox
so we might walk more openly
into this world so rife with devastation,
this world so ripe with joy.”
~Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer