Space for Grief days

On Sunday, 11:00-17:00 CET (Amsterdam time)
in Dutch/English “live” or online, cost: €125,- per day

“After this Grief  Day I felt lighter and more alive”

“I am surprised by how helpful it was for me to attend this training, which provided a gentle and safe learning environment for me to connect with my inner wisdom. I got clarity on what I need to mourn as well as how to do that.

“Mirjam gave a lot of space and warmth to get in touch with the pain that I was scared to get in touch with. The trainer was very honest with her own struggles with grief. I felt connected and safe throughout the entire workshop.”

“I am very grateful. This training clarified for me what mourning is about. The learning materials, especially those with images, really enhanced my knowledge. Mirjam is very talented in listening in an empathic and supportive way that gave much space and helped me feel understood.”

Each day will be all about togetherness, welcoming life, sharing, learning and growing our own personal relationship with mourning. We consider grief to be a very important part of life, and yet so few of us have actually learned about it. Grief is not just about the loss of a loved one, but involves any unwanted change or loss in our life. Here are a few examples we have heard during past workshops:

  • unmet needs in my childhood
  • the inner critic I live with
  • the end of a relationship
  • physical/emotional distance with someone or people I care about
  • loss of health
  • loss of job
  • loss of hope (e.g. concerning the environment)

Most of us know loss, sadness, grief and yet very few of us have ever learned how to mourn. What we do learn is to put our pain to the side and continue on with life, as if everything is “normal” when it is all but that. We hide our tears for ourselves and others. We do not learn that unpleasant emotions and pain have a very important role in our lives.

A few themes and practices that we will address:

  • tools to deal with your own mourning due to loss or change in your life
  • the wisdom and meaning of emotional pain and how grief functions
  • what holds us back from grieving
  • the difference between pain and suffering
  • how celebrating and mourning are interconnected
  • building support that really helps when you mourn
  • supporting others with little or big mourning
  • practicing and connecting in duets & trios
  • body connection
  • group sharing

From the trainer, Mirjam Schulpen:

“Next to my personal experience with mourning, our 20+ years of supporting others to be with and benefit from their emotions and needs gives us great satisfaction and pleasure. We look forward to giving you inspiration and practical tools (deriving from Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication model and others) that you can apply and move in the direction of vitality.”

To register, please send an email to info@mirjamschulpen.nl with:

  • your full name
  • the date of the weekend you wish to join
  • any questions you may have

We will then reply with further information and a payment request.