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March 18 ~ Death, Dreams, & Yoga ~ in person event in Swannanoa, NC
Join Wilka Roig, Aditi Sethi, and Amy Wright Glenn for a 3-hour, in person workshop at The Sanctuary in Western North Carolina. Practice is set at a gentle/moderate pace and open to all levels. Learn more and sign up today.
September 6 ~ You Are Here: A roadmap for the end of life
Join Trish Rux, RN and Jan Booth, RN for an important exploration of planning your end of life wishes and care. What matters most to you? How do you want to be cared for? What are you willing to take responsibility for, and what are you leaving behind for others to take care of? All are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
July 29 ~ Death, Dreams, & Yoga ~ in person event in Draper, UT
Join Camille Hawkins and Amy Wright Glenn for a 3-hour, in person workshop in Draper, UT. Practice is set at a gentle/moderate pace and open to all levels. Learn more and sign up today.
July 11 ~ Birth, Breath, & Death
Join Institute teacher Sonja Ausen for a 3-hour workshop focusing upon ~ and deepening ~ the personal significance that each participant brings to birth, breath, and death. Learn more here.
April 6 ~ Tending the dead
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 4-week study focusing on “Corpse Care” and featuring an interview with co-author Rev. Cody J. Sanders, PhD. How has death care evolved from antiquity to modern times? What factors played a role in the industrialization of the care of corpses? How can we bring our best practices of compassion to the work of tending the dead? Learn more and sign up today.
July 1 ~ Hungry Ghosts
Join Institute founder and director Amy Wright Glenn for a 10-hour in-depth exploration of what it means to encounter, examine, name, and integrate our “hungry ghosts” ~ especially in relationship with “toxic people.” Drawing upon the work of Shahida Arabi, participants will examine the role of trauma bonds and codependency and how these dynamics unfold both physiologically in terms of attachment systems in the body as well as emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Learn more and sign up today.
July 5 ~Summer Book Club for 5-7th graders
All rising 5th-7th graders are welcome to join Amy Wright Glenn for a 6-week Summer Book Club experience focusing on New York Times bestseller “Refugee” by Alan Gratz. Learn more here.
May 16 ~ Understanding Trauma for Birth & Death Doulas
Join Amy Wright Glenn, Melissa Ming Foynes, PhD, and Jonathan Labman, former Director of The Trauma Treatment Program at the Penn Foundation for a 10-hour exploration of understanding trauma ~ in a way that is evidenced-based and drawing upon best practices. Such an approach is key to deepening the work doulas are called to do in this world. While this course is geared to support birth and death doulas in their work, all are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
May 4 ~ Rituals for Menopause
Join Amy Wright Glenn for an 6-hour workshop focusing on the study, significance, and need for contemporary rituals of meaning to mark menopause. Participants will engage in discussion and study drawing upon the yogic and Christian traditions in particular and conclude the course by crafting their own ritual of meaning. Learn more and sign up today.
Parent Study Circle
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 3-part book study focusing on Dr. Cara Natterson’s Decoding Boys. If you are a parent of a boy, or you mentor, teach, and/or spend time with boys ~ this course will strengthen your insight, communication skill, and knowledge regarding what boys today are facing. Learn more and sign up today.
May 4 ~ Dance for All People
Join founder/director of Dance for All People (DAPpers), Rachel Balaban for this remarkable new offering! For the first time, the Institute collaborates to bring Rachel Balaban to our community and offer a multigenerational dance class designed for people with movement challenges and aging bodies. This course meets for 4 weeks will be taught live via Zoom. Classes are not recorded. All are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
March 7 ~ Holding Space Consultant Training begins
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 4 week training drawing upon the teachings of Alan Wolfelt, PhD and the insights drawn from Amy’s years of work as a doula, hospital chaplain, mother, and teacher. Learn the skills central to the work of the Institute’s Holding Space Consultant and apply them to your personal story, work, family, friendship, and community life. Learn more and sign up today.
January 28 ~ Self Care Support Circle
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a year long study/practice of self care! This is a wonderful opportunity to commit oneself to the practice of inquiry and the setting of monthly intentions/explorations around deepening one’s self care. Learn more and sign up today.
December 31 ~ New Year’s Eve Institute Retreat
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 2-hour, online, live, New Year’s Eve retreat wherein participants consider the themes of birth, breath, and death both in the past 2022 year and the upcoming 2023 year. Learn more and sign up today.
November 12 ~ Fall Shadow Work Ritual
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a two-hour ritual focusing on integrating the shadows of fall/winter and the shadows of self with mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom. We gather to meditate, read, craft a ritual that is open to all (secular and faith based) and share. This is not recorded. Participants need to attend live. The Fall Shadow Work Ritual is open to all. Learn more and sign up today.
November 6 ~ Yoga for Grief
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 4 week series of Sunday evening yoga practice with the focus on holding space for the natural contractions and expansions of grief. Participants meet via Zoom and sessions are not recorded. Practice is set at a gentle/moderate pace and open to all levels. Learn more and sign up today.
November 4 ~ Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Join Institute teacher Abby Jorgensen for a 5-hour, online live Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. This training is open to all ~ midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
November 5 ~ Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Join Institute teachers Michelle Smith and Noelle Oosthuizen for a 5-hour, online live Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. This training is open to all ~ midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
October 28-30 ~Fall Institute Retreat in Asheville, NC
Join Institute founder and director Amy Wright Glenn for an amazing in-person weekend retreat full of speakers, workshops, dance, music, and ritual ~ all set during the wonders of fall in Asheville, NC. All are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
October 12 ~ Understanding Trauma for Birth & Death Doulas
Join Amy Wright Glenn, Melissa Ming Foynes, PhD, and Jonathan Labman, former Director of The Trauma Treatment Program at the Penn Foundation for a 10-hour exploration of understanding trauma ~ in a way that is evidenced-based and drawing upon best practices. Such an approach is key to deepening the work doulas are called to do in this world. While this course is geared to support birth and death doulas in their work, all are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
September 7 ~ Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Join Institute teacher Abby Jorgensen for a 5-hour, online live Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. This training is open to all ~ midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
September 9 ~ Hungry Ghosts
Join Institute founder and director Amy Wright Glenn for a 10-hour in-depth exploration of what it means to encounter, examine, name, and integrate our “hungry ghosts” ~ especially in relationship with “toxic people.” Drawing upon the work of Shahida Arabi, participants will examine the role of trauma bonds and codependency and how these dynamics unfold both physiologically in terms of attachment systems in the body as well as emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This course will be taught live via Zoom. All are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
August 13 ~ Rituals for Menopause
Join Amy Wright Glenn for an 8-hour workshop focusing on the study, significance, and need for contemporary rituals of meaning to mark menopause. Participants will engage in discussion and study drawing upon the yogic and Christian traditions in particular and conclude the course by crafting their own ritual of meaning. Learn more and sign up today.
June 17 ~ Ritual for Regret & Forgiveness
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 90-minute online gathering focusing on a communal, nonsectarian ritual practice of forgiveness. The practice of forgiving self and/or others helps to integrate and reconcile the energies of regret. Learn more and sign up today.
May 13 ~ Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Join Institute teacher Joanne Zerdy, PhD for a 5-hour, online live Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. This training is open to all ~ midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
May 4 ~ Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Join Institute teacher Abby Jorgensen for a 5-hour, online live Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. This training is open to all ~ midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
November 29 & December 6 ~ Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Join Institute teacher Jessica Kilbourn, for a 5-hour, live, online Loving, Dying, and Letting Go workshop. Participants are asked to engage in deep personal reflection on three key themes/ areas of inquiry. These themes are: What does it means to love? What does it mean to die, and What does it mean to let go? This course will be split into two sections. Learn more and sign up today.
April 28 ~ Nourishing Resiliency: Holding Space for Difficult Emotions Support Group
Join Holding Space Consultants Anne Crook and Melinda Hitchcock for a 6-week support group. Are you currently navigating a significant change in your life? Are you experiencing painful emotions related to these changes? For example: a recent divorce/breakup, job change, relocation, new diagnosis, or shifts in identity. Major life changes bring grief, which often goes unacknowledged by our broader culture and we are left to grapple with difficult emotions largely on our own. If you’re seeking support as you nourish your resiliency, know you are most welcome to join this community of care. Learn more and sign up today.
May 4 ~ Holding Space for our Mothers
In honor of Mother’s Day, Institute founder and director Amy Wright Glenn launches an 8-hour course presented live via Zoom. Whether you regard your mother as your closest friend, never knew your birth mother, are estranged, grieve the loss of your mother, or are working to show up (or support your partner in showing up) as a present, mindful, and compassionate mother ~ you are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
April 5 ~ Music for the Dying
Join palliative care/hospice physician Aditi Sethi, MD and board certified music therapist Jay Brown for this 6-hour course presented live and online. In “Music for the Dying,” Jay and Aditi will co-lead a dynamic, inspiring, and transformation course exploring the role music can play in the dying journey. Both Aditi and Jay are professional musicians and they draw upon their work in hospice as well as their creative work as a husband-wife musician duo. Music is included in this experience! Learn more and sign up today.
January 13 ~ Doulas and Domestic Violence
Join Lundy Bancroft ~ a leading author on domestic violence ~ Jenny Ward, Tina Swithin, and Amy Wright Glenn for a 10-hour workshop focusing on what it means for those of us drawn to holding space for birth/death to encounter painful and difficult stories of abuse as part of our work. Participants will engage in discussion and study with Lundy Bancroft in real time as he answers questions for three 1-hour segments as part of this course. All are welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
December 4 ~ Three Views of Jesus
Join Amy Wright Glenn for an 3-hour workshop focusing on three views of Jesus ~ Trinitarian, Unitarian, and Humanist point of view. Learn more about what scholars know regarding the historical Jesus and what theologians assert regarding the Christ of Faith through an open exploration from a comparative religion/philosophy point of view. Learn more and sign up today.
November 6 ~ Birth, Breath, and Death Teacher Training
Join Amy Wright Glenn for a 21-hour Teacher Training geared to support individuals drawn to hold space for life’s sacred threshold points in leading 3-hour in-person or online workshops on Birth, Breath, and Death. The November 2021 Birth, Breath, and Death Teacher Training is 2-months long. Learn more and sign up today.
November 7 ~ Music for the Dying
Join palliative care/hospice physician Aditi Sethi, MD and board certified music therapist Jay Brown for this 6-hour course presented live and online. In “Music for the Dying,” Jay and Aditi will co-lead a dynamic, inspiring, and transformation course exploring the role music can play in the dying journey. Both Aditi and Jay are professional musicians and they draw upon their work in hospice as well as their creative work as a husband-wife musician duo. Music is included in this experience! Learn more and sign up today.
October 21 ~ Thresholds: Navigating Life Changes Support Group
Join Holding Space Consultants Anne Crook and Melinda Hitchcock for a 6-week support group. Are you currently navigating a significant change in your life? Are you experiencing painful emotions related to these changes? For example: a recent divorce/breakup, job change, relocation, new diagnosis, or shifts in identity. Major life changes bring grief, which often goes unacknowledged by our broader culture and we are left to grapple with difficult emotions largely on our own. If you’re struggling to make sense of changes in your life know you are most welcome to join this community of care. Learn more and sign up today.
August 30 & September 1 ~ Join Institute teacher Lori Adams, for a 5-hour, online Loving, Dying, and Letting Go workshop. The five-hour course will be offered in two sessions beginning at 7pm CST.
To register, contact Lori: loriadams12@earthlink.net
September 25 ~ Grief Work Training in Lawrenceville, NJ
Join Institute founder and director Amy Wright Glenn and Institute teacher and Holding Space Consultant Naima Beckles for a 5-hour, in-person Grief Work Training. Open to all + those involved in holding space for life’s difficult passages ~ mental health providers, birth & death doulas, hospice and hospital chaplains, as well as religious/spiritual leaders ~ are particularly welcome. Learn more and sign up today.
May 20 and 27 ~ Join Institute teacher Jessica Kilbourn for a 5-hour, online Loving, Dying, and Letting Go workshop.
The five-hour course will be split into two sections beginning at 1pm EST.
To register, contact Jessica: jkilbourn@emich.edu
Watch Jess Kilbourn’s 5 minute video about the significance of this course
as a “journey of contemplation and curiosity.”