Name: Grief & Gratitude Ceremony
Start: 2025-08-26T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-26T22:30:00+02:00
Location: Genezarethkirche (Berlin - Neukölln)

Grief + Gratitude: Dance. Ceremony. Community.
@ Genezareth Church Startbahn

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👉🏽 Please E-MAIL me to register - as space is limited:
[email protected]
(note: the exact spelling of the email)

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In the ever-growing field of self-development, spirituality and healing, there are many workshops and seminars focused on ‘ascent’: on positivity, expansion, self improvement, and higher states. What is often lacking in this marketplace are spaces of ‘descent’ - spaces in which to approach the darker elements of the human condition: the pain and shame and grief that all of us carry around. And there is a deep need for these neglected parts to be honoured, for our inner sorrows to find their voice and expression. There is a deep need for the shame and repression of our vulnerabilities to be lifted, and to be able to be together with and in our pain.
One of things I have learnt from Indigenous cultures - is the power and necessity of communal ritual for holding and processing sorrow. A special kind of magic occurs when we come together as a group to welcome and express our grief. Being held in our vulnerability by a caring community is an ancient and transformative human technology that has been forgotten by modern culture.
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On this evening we will come together as a community, thru exercises, thru movement, thru music and ceremony -- we will open a sacred space to honour the sorrows that we carry, both personally and collectively, and in doing so - deepen our gratitude for life.
** This is relevant for ALL kinds of Grief and Sorrow - not only the grief that comes with death. There are many pains and shames and losses that we carry, from our personal lives and from the collective - that require unconditional acceptance, feeling and expression.
+ No prior experience necessary
+ Can be done in English or German
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☀ WHERE
Ev. Kirchengemeinde Genezareth
Herrfurthpl. 14, 12049 Berlin
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☀ WHEN
Tuesday, 26. August
18:00 - Doors open for arrival
18:30 - Begin ** DOORS CLOSE: no entry after this**
22:30 - End, community chill, integration
23:00 - clean up / dance
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☀ HOW
This event is Donation-based: give what you can.
Suggested donation: Between 20, - 30, euro
(nach selbt-einschätzung)
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☀ BRING with you:
- A small STONE or PEBBLE to give away for the ceremony (it should fit in your hand, and you wont get it back afterwards)
- Food to share during the break
- photos / objects you want to place on the altar
- Comfortable clothes to move around in
- Paper and Pen to journal in
- An openness to hold space and stay until the end.
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