The Medicine of Grief: Three-month journey

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21st November 2023 - 13th February 2024

7pm - 9pm GMT

Online - £595 (or pay in installments)

An exploration of grief tending in community moving through the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether

This three-month offering takes the group on an experiential grief tending journey. Welcome to all, whether you are experiencing a deep bereavement, the loss of a relationship or turning towards other losses in your life.

Grief and loss touch us all yet we are wildly unsupported to navigate this experience. Grief tending is the antidote to this very human need. Originating from the root word ‘tenderness’, 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.

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.

There are many different types of grief, 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*

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.

* 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 a right space for you, please get in touch and we can explore together.

What you will receive:

  • 9x online grief circles (dates & timings below)

  • 2x individual session with Nici

  • 4x personal grief reflection guides

  • 3x guided meditation practices

  • 1x breathwork journey with Fini Cooper

  • Weekly emails and an optional WhatsApp group

  • Connection and community

  • "Honouring grief through community has deepened my relationship with life"

    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

  • "My fear is now shifting slowly into deep love and I never thought I’d say that"

    “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 have never joined a community so loving, caring, and whole."

    “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

  • "Nici made me feel seen, heard, valued, accepted and supported - exactly as I am"

    “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

  • "Nici holds the space with such gentleness I felt completely safe, seen and held"

    “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

  • "I transitioned from fear, through to intrigue, and then to gratefulness"

    “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

  • "Nici’s gentleness made it easy to soften into the space"

    “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

Booking

We also offer a limited number of low-income spaces for £425. To claim one of these spaces please get in touch with nici@thegriefspace.

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 21st November 2023 ~ EARTH ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

Tuesday 28th November 2023 ~ EARTH ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

w/c 4th December ~ no circle, personal grief tending practice

Tuesday 12th December 2023 ~ WATER ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

Tuesday 19th December 2023 ~ WATER ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

w/c 25th December ~ no circle, personal grief tending practice

Tuesday 2nd January 2023 ~ FIRE ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

Tuesday 9th January 2023 ~ FIRE ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

w/c 15th January 2023 ~ no circle, personal grief tending practice

Tuesday 23rd January 2023 ~ AIR ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

Tuesday 30th January 2023 ~ AIR ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT

w/c 5th February 2023 ~ no circle, personal grief tending practice

Tuesday 13th February 2023 ~ 19.00 - 21.00 GMT ~ Closing circle