Tending Our Hearts and Healing Our Collective Grief

Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day 

Many of us are holding grief in our hearts in response to the collective patterns of trauma present in our world. While these patterns aren't new, the losses we have experienced—and are experiencing now—compound one another and can feel overwhelming and complicated. Having a space to come together with others who are feeling the collective weight of the world and to grieve and restore our spirits and hearts is essential.  

Join spiritual teacher, social justice activist, and intuitive healer Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a gentle experiential workshop exploring care and healing for grief. Drawing upon her work in collective grief, liberation, and spiritual practices, Michelle creates a space to tend to your heart and learn how to wade through grief and move toward healing in community. This immersion includes contemplative practices such as restorative movement, journaling, exploring points of refuge available to us, ritual, pranayama, meditation, and small and large group discussions.  

Michelle invites anyone experiencing grief and loss to find care and community in this workshop. She reminds us of the many ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. 
 

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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, spiritual teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism educator. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively. As a Dismantling Racism educator, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Mercedes, Yoga Alliance, Kripalu, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published the first edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; and the second edition of Skill in Action in November 2021, published by Shambhala Publications. Her second book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021. Her newest book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practice for Building Community and Connection, published by Shambhala Publications, explores the deep knowing and truth that we are interconnected; we belong to one another. We Heal Together offers rituals and practices meant to dream us into a new way of being to benefit the highest and fullest good. Michelle teaches workshops and immersions in organizations, and spiritual, yoga, and community spaces nationwide. 
 
Michelle moves and leads from the heart, and healing and wholeness are central to how Michelle approaches all she does in the world. 

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Accessibility

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Recording Policy

Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers.

Refund Policy

Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% partial refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy at our About web page.