Join Me for a Virtual Conversation on Re-Emerging With Intention
I don’t have to tell you that this is a weird time. A scary time. An angry time.
But today is also just another Wednesday.
Another day fighting off the urge to doom scroll through the latest surge of apocalyptic headlines while at the same time keeping up with my inbox and that never-ending pile of laundry.
Another day reeling from cognitive and emotional whiplash. Attempting to balance the load of daily life with a burden of grief that I fear may overwhelm me.
The totality of the loss we’ve collectively experienced is beyond comprehension. Personally, I’ve been vacillating between succumbing to that heaviness and a stubborn desire to fight through the fog and find my way back out into the light.
So much of our lived experience over the past few years has been shaped by forces beyond our control. Most recently, one of our most basic human rights, the right to bodily autonomy, has been ripped away and more threats loom on the horizon.
Things are shifting. Not in the direction we’d all hoped for, but we are reemerging from something. Many of us are (very awkwardly) coming out of our shells, shaking off silence and complacency, and reconsidering what our future holds. We’re teetering on an uncharted in-between, walking a tight line with 100 lbs of grief in one hand and grasping for some evasive hope with the other.
We’ve all been shaken up, our pieces scattered, our lives fractured. But now is the time to come together, to pick up the glue, and remember that we get to decide how we put ourselves back together. If you’re ready, I invite you to join us as we look to the future and consider how we might reemerge with intention.
After reflecting on our own recent experiences, my friend and colleague Sydney Kastner and I knew we wanted to create a safe space for folks to come together and process reemergence during this “challenging time.”
That’s how my next event, Re-Emerging with Intention, came to be.
This virtual workshop includes a discussion of the collective stages of grief (a la Elizabeth Kubler Ross) as they apply to our experiences with the pandemic and the overturning of Roe v Wade. We’ll honor both the obvious and not-so-obvious parts of grief and explore how they might be manifesting in the present in our minds and bodies.
This experience, among other things, is an exercise in creating space for grief while also building connection and positive momentum for the future. We’ll guide you through reflections to help you examine the friction between what life has been like over the past few years, the challenges in the present, and the future you hope to create.
Through journaling prompts, mindfulness activities, and opportunities to share and connect (if you choose), we’ll process how recent events have impacted us and shifted our values and priorities.
Together we’ll examine what we want to carry with us into the future and what we want to leave behind. Let’s embrace this opportunity to take care of ourselves and each other, reconnect to our purpose, and ignite the flames of hope as we consider how to reemerge with intention.
Please note that our ticket prices are on a sliding scale to honor access and equity. There are suggested examples and guidelines- feel free to also follow what your budget allows. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at bonjour@liztalago.com.
