The Medicine of Grief

Three-month journey

Our signature online grief-tending journey takes a small group of people through an apprenticeship with grief. Through this experiential programme, including three guest workshops, you will learn how to create a new relationship with grief, loss and love.

Fully booked

Join waitlist for Winter 2024

Dates

TBD

Format

Online | 12 people

9x Circles (inc. 3 guest workshops)

2x one-to-one sessions

Price

£585

(instalments available)

To be human is to know loss

Originating from the word ‘tender’, grief tending invites us to bring compassion to our grief, as we would to a small child or a wild garden. When we create spaces for our grief to be witnessed and welcomed, not only do we allow our grief to flow and move, but we also expand our capacity to feel love, connection and presence.

This programme is our deepest online offering. Together, we will explore how shared grief deepens us and eases the sorrows in our hearts. This guided process will support your experience through the paradoxes of grief and gratitude, love and loss and death and rebirth. Inspired by the natural forces of Earth, Water, Fire and Air, the circle will encourage you to deepen your connection to nature, yourself and each other.

Although we would all rather not find ourselves drawn here, I have found over and over again that grief circles are a place to find intimacy, connection and authenticity. Grief can also be a great initiation as through its experience we are ripened as human beings, emerging with a greater capacity for compassion and connection. We show up for this work not solely for our individual healing, but also to enable us to respond to the critical needs of our times.

FAQs

Anyone, everyone.
Anyone who is experiencing grief recent or ancient - whether it’s the people we’ve lost, a relationship that ended, miscarriage, regrets we hold, unmet hopes and expectations, ecological grief or the longing for deeper meaning and connection in our lives. All are welcome.
For anyone who is interested in compassionately tending to their grief and integrating it into all of who they are. People who are willing to let grief change them and to understand grief as the potential initiation into more authenticity and a deeper connection with life. Moving forward with an open heart, rather than moving on.
* Please be aware that these circles are open to all types of grief. If you are experiencing very raw grief and unsure if a circle is the right space for you, please get in touch and we can explore together.
Within a grief circle, you will be held and supported throughout. You can expect an exploration of grief tending, guided meditation, group sharing and soothing poetry or music to support us integrate our grief. You are always invited to speak as much or as little as you feel comfortable, everything is optional and you are encouraged to find a relationship with yourself and your own needs.
This programme includes three guest workshops to help you embody the practices of grief tending and empower you with techniques that you can take into your life. These workshops include: Moving the body through loss, forgiveness for yourself and others and a connecting to the breath as gateway to the heart.
- 9x online grief circles (dates & timings below)
- 3x guest workshops
- 2x individual session with Nici
- 4x personal grief reflection guides
- Optional whatsapp group with self-reflection prompts
- Weekly emails with resources and guides
- Connection and community

My experience with Nici and The Medicine of Grief program fundamentally changed the connection I have with myself and those around me. Nici's exquisitely gentle and supportive guidance allowed me the space to open in layers and be held by the community of souls across the globe that found their way together at that moment in time. The Medicine of Grief program is a thoughtful and deliberate approach towards grief all while the slow pace gifted my nervous system the opportunity to respond from a place of deep belonging. I will cherish this experience for a lifetime.
— Savitri
“The three-month journey with grief has unraveled my aching heart and allowed me to feel a connection to others who understand. I have never joined a community so loving, caring, and whole. The meditations and teachings shared have given me the tools to hold my heart and gently open back up to joy once again. Nici has been a wonderful companion and gives the healing gift of complete presence in a way I have never encountered before. I will forever treasure this space.”
— Madeleine
“I was called to join The Medicine of Grief because, even though my mother died 22 years ago, at the time there was no space for my grief, no acknowledgement, no holding, and I had lived my life since then repressing it. Taking the time each week to be in circle with Nici and others felt like a truly loving thing for myself. I was apprehensive at first, and definitely feelings were stirred during the calls, but Nici holds the space with such gentleness I felt completely safe, seen and held. There was space for it all here. Whatever kind of loss or grief I was experiencing, I felt it was all welcome in this beautiful journey with Nici.'
— Ellie
“Nici has been so inspiring and quite literally shown me another way to be with grief. I feel like I can finally embrace pain and in turn am feeling so much joy beside it. Through the three-month apprenticeship with grief, my fear is now shifting slowly into deep love and I never thought I’d say that. Thank you for holding me. I’m forever grateful.”
— Kit
“I am so grateful for Nici, her wisdom and her love. She offers such a profound and gentle space of 'truth'. The apprenticeship has moved into corners of my being - provoking, sensing, soothing and always loving. I thank you for your humanity, compassion and courage. Exploring and honouring grief through community has deepened my relationship with life. Nici provides a sanctuary for the deepest of enquiries, always holding and honouring the individual and the unity of the group. A true wise being and advocate for true soul work.“
— Clare
“I’m so lucky to have found Nici and I have truly benefited from having her presence as a teacher recently. Each circle and one-to-one session she made me feel seen, heard, valued, accepted and supported - exactly as I am. The music and poetry selected to accompany the Medicine of Grief programme were breathtaking. Nici has the most beautiful heart and I believe we can all learn so much from her wisdom. I will be participating in the programme again without question and would advise anyone who feels they could benefit from a soft, nurturing space to sign up.”
— Jennifer
“I thank my lucky stars that I met Nici when I did. I'm very aware that my grief would look very differently had I not. Nici has shown me new ways of looking at and living my grief that she opened me to experience the life lessons that grief had installed for me. Through the 3-month medicine of grief and also the month-long grief group (I've done two now) I transitioned from fear, through to intrigue, and then to gratefulness - all thanks to Nici for guiding me through the murky waters of grief.”
— Aimee
“My experience during the three month journey was a beautiful one. Nici’s gentleness made it easy to soften into the space. It is clear that she has embodied her own journey on many different levels and I’m grateful she has chosen to share her lived experience and her resources with us. I really liked the judgment-free energy of the group - such a different way to sit together. Very healing. So much love for you Nici.”
— Lauren

Guest workshops

Avni Trivedi - Moving through loss

Avni Trivedi is an experienced and intuitive practitioner using touch and movement to help people to connect with their bodily wisdom. She is a Women’s Health and Paediatric Osteopath, Birth Doula, Zero Balancer and Non-Linear Movement Teacher. Her podcast, Speak From the Body’ explores themes such as embodiment, stress, trauma, hormones and pleasure.
Fini Cooper - Connecting to the breath

Fini is a breathwork therapist and coach working in London. She works with individual clients in areas ranging from nervous system regulation to trauma release and integration. She has also spoken at Seed Talks as well as teaching at various festivals across the country from Latitude to We Out Here.
Barbara Hunt - Forgiveness for yourself & others

Barbara is a forgiveness specialist, speaker, workshop leader and bestselling author of “Forgiveness Made Easy”. She leads on-line "Forgiveness Field" workshops and courses on mental and emotional wellbeing. She works in private practice internationally and on bespoke retreats in rural Somerset in the UK. Barbara is also an integral musician and singer-songwriter.