Connect & Reflect in CommunityCheck out upcoming events open to the community at various locations around southern Maine. Please note some events or gatherings will redirect you to sign up on a collaborator’s website. If you are interested in a private event, please fill out an inquiry form to connect and learn more about how I can support your group or team. I look forward to connecting!
Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing, A grief Gathering
November's Themes: Visualization, meditation, sound and Reiki, rest and receiving.
Join us for Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing on September 23, 2024, at North Sky Co., Biddeford. This compassionate gathering offers the space for those navigating grief. Led by Jessica, the event provides a gentle environment to share your journey, build into your grief toolkit, and connect with others, reminding us that while our grief experience is unique to us, we share this experience universally. Through psychoeducation, creative expression, nature connection, and mindfulness practices, the goal of this vessel is to foster healing and build resilience. Light refreshments will be available. Come as you are and find solace in community support. Sign up under the scheduling tab to help us prepare for your presence.
Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing, A grief Gathering
December's Theme: Honoring Loved Ones through the Holidays
Join us for Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing on September 23, 2024, at North Sky Co., Biddeford. This compassionate gathering offers the space for those navigating grief. Led by Jessica, the event provides a gentle environment to share your journey, build into your grief toolkit, and connect with others, reminding us that while our grief experience is unique to us, we share this experience universally. Through psychoeducation, creative expression, nature connection, and mindfulness practices, the goal of this vessel is to foster healing and build resilience. Light refreshments will be available. Come as you are and find solace in community support. Sign up under the scheduling tab to help us prepare for your presence.
Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing, A grief Gathering
October's Theme: Affirmation Creation
Join us for Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing on September 23, 2024, at North Sky Co., Biddeford. This compassionate gathering offers the space for those navigating grief. Led by Jessica, the event provides a gentle environment to share your journey, build into your grief toolkit, and connect with others, reminding us that while our grief experience is unique to us, we share this experience universally. Through psychoeducation, creative expression, nature connection, and mindfulness practices, the goal of this vessel is to foster healing and build resilience. Light refreshments will be available. Come as you are and find solace in community support. Sign up under the scheduling tab to help us prepare for your presence.
Restorative Yoga
Hosted at Root to Rise Physical Therapy & Pelvic Health at the Saco Mill #4, 120 Main St #113.
Between the Sea & ME: A Grief Ritual for the Maine Coast Community
I will be teaming up with Hogfish, a regenerative arts non-profit located in southern Maine to facilitate this Grief Ritual, Between the Sea & ME.
Please feel free to read more below to learn more about this event and register.
“Hogfish is deeply honored to hold an empathetic, safe, and nurturing space for grief, gratitude, and community centered around climate grief, but open to all.
Living in Maine, many of us are lucky enough to have a personal deep connection to the natural world, and so also must carry a personal deep connection to the evolving climate crisis. This gathering provides a communal space to process those deep connections that are often held privately.
Grief and gratitude for the natural world are not meant to be solitary, though today many of us grieve and give thanks alone; communal ritual offers the opportunity to witness one another’s pain and joy, share our stories of heartbreak and heart-made, and to hold each other as we journey into the depth of our collective sorrow so that we may more fully experience the gratitude for what we have lost and what still is.
This event will include:
the chance for you to share a place that is important to you through a photo or story
poetry and song
an invocation to the unseen world through spoken word and drumming
time to grieve and have that grieving witnessed and held
grounding somatic movement practices to help us find deep support as we unwind and soften the bracing in our bodies
the creation of a beautiful shrine
micro-rituals of guided writing practices that include an opportunity to share and witness in small groups
culminating in a powerful community grief ritual on the beach by the ocean
a potluck of dishes that connect you to a favorite experience with the natural world
dancing together to let our feelings move through us and back into the world
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.’”
ABOUT HOGFISH
The climate is changing. Temperatures and tensions are rising in our environment, our communities, and ourselves. Industrialization and the digital world have lifted billions out of poverty, and yet, with the rise of wealth has also come the rise of inequality, toxic carbon levels, fraught public discourse, and sedentary lifestyles. Hogfish is inspired by heroes, sung and unsung, working to restore wellness to global, social, and personal realms.
Hogfish believes that applying the principles of regenerative agriculture to the arts provides a unique opportunity to holistically restore every layer of the human experience. We are on a quest to build an artistic sanctuary and body of work to restore a healthier dynamic balance between our planet, the stories we tell, and the way we live.”
Please register for this event here. Any questions regarding this event can be directed to Hogfish.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Community Reiki
Join Jessica in community on the fourth Friday of the month for community connection and Reiki!
Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing, A grief Gathering
Join us for Tender Moments: Pathways to Healing on September 23, 2024, at North Sky Co., Biddeford. This compassionate gathering offers the space for those navigating grief. Led by Jessica, the event provides a gentle environment to share your journey, build into your grief toolkit, and connect with others, reminding us that while our grief experience is unique to us, we share this experience universally. Through psychoeducation, creative expression, nature connection, and mindfulness practices, the goal of this vessel is to foster healing and build resilience. Light refreshments will be available. Come as you are and find solace in community support. Sign up under the scheduling tab to help us prepare for your presence.
Community Reiki
Join Jessica in community on the fourth Friday of the month for community connection and Reiki!
Restorative yoga
Hosted at Root to Rise Physical Therapy & Pelvic Health at the Saco Mill #4, 120 Main St #113.
Re-sounding History with hogfish:
Find me in collaboration with Hogfish, a non-profit regenerative arts program for a meditative sound bath and hands-on healing on Fort Gorges in Casco Bay, Maine.
Community Reiki
Join Jessica in community on the fourth Friday of the month for community connection and Reiki!
Hosted a Root to Rise in Saco Mill #4
Community Reiki
Join Jessica in community on the third Friday of the month for community connection and Reiki!
Hosted at Root to Rise Physical Therapy & Pelvic Health at the Saco Mill #4, 120 Main St #113.
Restorative Yoga
Hosted at Root to Rise Physical Therapy & Pelvic Health at the Saco Mill #4, 120 Main St #113.
Private Events
Please fill out an inquiry form below if you are interested in a personalized private group or team building event. Groups up to 6: beginning at $150Groups up to 12: beginning at $300Groups larger than 12: please fill out the inquiry below for a quote!
Let’s work together
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