Grief, Loss & Personal Reflections: A Community Gathering
Sunday, September 21st | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
FREE COMMUNITY OFFERING
True Nature | Carbondale, CO
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Description:Taking a community-driven approach to local wellness, we invite you to a soulful day of supported reflection, nourishment, and healing to honor grief in all its forms—personal, collective, anticipatory, and ancestral. However you define your grief, you are welcome here.
With the generous support of Pathfinders, Aspen Hope Center, Aspen Institute's Hurst Community Initiative, Lead with Love, and the Connection is the Medicine Foundation—alongside a growing number of local agencies, direct service providers, mental health professionals, clergy, restaurants, musicians, and media sponsors—we collectively present this unique community gathering.
What to Expect: Held on the tranquil campus of True Nature in Carbondale, this free and public event offers a series of interactive experiences and healing modalities to support participants in the grieving process.Offerings include:
Guided breathwork and meditation
Journaling and personal reflection exercises
Informal small group discussions
Immersive musical performances
Nourishing refreshments from local restaurants
You’re invited to come as you are—with friends, family, or on your own—to share in an intentionally inclusive and uplifting moment of pause, contemplation, feeling, and healing. This is a chance to be together, honor what we carry, and recognize grief as an essential component of individual and collective wellbeing.
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”— Jamie Anderson
We are not alone.
We hope you’ll join us.
Huge gratitude to Hurst Community Initiative, Aspen Hope Center and Pathfinders, Lead with Love and all our community partners for making this possible!
9:00 am: Welcome!
9:15-9:45am: Live contemplative music - MinTze Wu, violin and Michael Graham, cello
10:15am-11:15am: Facilitated grief talk and community discussion with Allison Daily and Robyn Hubbard of Pathfinders
11:30am-11:50pm: Guided Moving Meditation with Robyn Hubbard
12:00pm-gone: Light lunch/snack items from Dos Gringos, Phat Thai and Villiage Smithy
1pm-2pm: Harpist Ella Yates and Guided Labyrinth walk with Laura Kirk
2:15-3:15pm: Breathwork with Allison Alexander
3:20-3:40pm: Guided Meditation with Gretchen Bleiler
3:45-4pm: Closing - Love Notes
on-going 11am - 4pm: Intention Setting with Death Doula - Akaljeet