THE SITTING WITH DEATH AND CHOOSING LIFE PROGRAMME
WELCOME
The Sitting with Death and Choosing Life Programme aims to:
- Provide sacred spaces, permission and encouragement for you to share grief and to explore death, dying and loss through brave, open, inquiry-based conversations.
- Offer skills, practices and conceptual maps to support healing and release suffering; allowing love, compassion and gratitude to emerge; encouraging increased agency, creativity and contribution.
- Positively impact your emotional resilience, well-being and self-awareness : key skills for living with uncertainty.
- Increase your capacity for emotional transparency and authenticity; a deeper, more meaningful sense of connection and belonging, including belonging to bigger purpose and purposeful forward movement.
- Raise your confidence to step into being a facilitator or trainer of this programme, finding joy in convening conversation circles, ongoing fulfilment, learning and growth.
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Who are you and why are you here?
Your quality of life is enhanced as you step out of isolation and enter a group process.
Through deep listening and authentic expression you expand your understanding of what it means to be human at this time, discover a deeper common humanity and the will to act on this knowing.
Relinquishing the burden of unprocessed grief, and realizing loss and death as natural and essential aspects of life, enables shifts in perspective and leads to a greater sense of purpose, well-being and increased confidence in making your contribution to the common good.
As we share experiences of grief, loss, death and dying, we develop a set of simple practices which support the choice to align with our highest values on a daily basis.
Through weekly conversations we shed the shame and fear associated with grief and trauma and open our hearts to make space for creative new beginnings and joy. This leads to the development of a co-operative group culture and ripples out into the wider collective.
Some participants become facilitators of the programme’s Foundation Course, connecting with others within their local and virtual communities and harvesting fulfilment as they spread the work.
The programme’s practical approach to everyday living within a context of spiritual development and soul work provides endless opportunities for learning and discovery
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Participate in a like-hearted group over several months, take a deep dive and co-create an expansive field of consciousness to uplift and transform.
THE SITTING WITH DEATH RESOURCES AND HOW THEY STIMULATE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS THROUGH A TIME OF CRISIS
Find out about THE RESOURCES HERE
TRAINING THE TRAINERS – THE BIGGER VISION
JOIN THE CHOOSING LIFE TEAM
This training can be the beginning of a whole new chapter of joyful, creative service and ongoing learning and discovery for you. Of the seven people who completed the pilot training in 2020, five became active in the Choosing Life team. Some are now facilitators working with their own groups using the Sitting with Death and Choosing Life resources and earning income.Some are planning to complete the whole programme and become trainers. Some are supporting in other ways. From the pilot courses in 2021 several more people are joining as facilitators. This is co-creation at its best. Maybe you will be joining us soon?
From July 2021- September 2022 this programme is supported by a grant from The Emergence Foundation.
