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This is an in-person workshop at CUNY SPS, 119 W. 31st Street, New York, NY 10001.

Course Type

Brief Learning Series

 

Course Length

3 hours

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ATTENDANCE POLICY

Learners who complete this course will receive a certificate of completion from the Academy.

 

 

Introduction to Indigenous Tools for Living (ITFL): Land-Based Healing Practices for Working with Grief

DESCRIPTION

This is an in-person workshop located at CUNY School of Professional Studies, 119 W. 31st Street, New York, NY 10001.

This unique in-person workshop offers tools that help service providers transform your relationship to personal and collective grief that you may be carrying, and that affect the people you serve. Participants will be guided to explore the various levels and roots of grief that we or our clients are experiencing, including ways in which deep feelings of grief are often collective and intergenerational conversations. You will also be guided to connect with land as a way to create a new relationship with grief. Participants will walk away with tools to tap into your ancestral wisdom and your body’s wisdom for wellness.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

  • Reflect on personal, collective, and intergenerational dimensions of grief experiences
  • Explore how grief manifests, and common misconceptions and coping strategies for grief, including how the land can help us build a new relationship with grief
  • Learn how grieving can be an action into social justice

LEARNING PATH

This course is part of a Series: Introduction to Indigenous Tools for Living (ITFL)

  • Tools for Complex and Vicarious Trauma
  • Building a Relationship with the Inner Critic
  • Land-Based Healing Practices for Working with Grief

WHAT TO EXPECT

This is in-person workshop will be highly interactive. Instructors will guide participants through a series of exercises and rituals, including how to talk about your own experiences from an embodied place. Participants will be working in groups using tools that the instructors will provide.

Participants will be invited to sit on a large blanket on the floor, or in a chair. All participants are encouraged to bring a water bottle, and are welcome to bring a snack.

Course capacity is limited to 20 learners to support meaningful, small-group interactions.

ELIGIBILITY

This course is open to staff of any non-profit community organization or government agency that delivers social services in NYC. Please only apply for this course If you can commit to attending the full 3-hours workshop in-person at CUNY SPS.

This course is part of a series, Introduction to Indigenous Tools for Living. ITFL explores Indigenous perspectives and practices for learning about complex trauma and grounding ourselves in difficult situations. Learners are invited to register for one or more courses in the series.