There are three series of conversations in the Sitting with Death Programme. The first focuses on Grieving Well, the second on Transforming Loss, and the third will explore The Soul Journey. All the contributors to these conversations affirmed how helpful it is to come together with others to share experiences of grief and loss, and to explore thoughts and feelings about death, dying and the healing process. It is part of the mission of Tribe in Transition to seed awareness of this need to hold deeper conversations in community and provide opportunities to bring people to together for such explorations.
Over the last ten years, as I’ve been pursuing my transformational work, I’ve held some 150 recorded conversations with those I call “ordinary extraordinary people” – it’s one of the things I most like to do in life – and I’ve also facilitated many forums for deepening conversation in community. I’m always surprised by the wisdom, intelligence and fresh insights that comes through when two or more people hold the intention for open inquiry and discovery. This seems to point to an unexpressed hunger for meaningful connection and a higher consciousness that is readily available when we take the time and space to be present together and listen deeply.
There are multitudes of us journeying through very similar experiences of grief and loss: facing the death of a loved one, the falling away of a part of the self, or an aspect of life that has fulfilled its mission and needs to be let go. As Jan Cleghorn says in the first conversation, perhaps we are in the midst of a planetary cycle of grief and loss. And perhaps the many forms of anguish in our world at this time will be the catalyst for a global awakening of compassion, unity and respect for life. My hope is that this programme, a gift of my own healing process, will contribute towards the creation of a common language for grief, and map the movement into new and unknown territory as we heal and transform.
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