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Wild Grief Gainesville is a local partnership between mental health therapists and other community healers in Gainesville and the Prairie Creek Cemetery to provide a space for people to grieve in relationship with nature. Wild Grief will be a structured 45 minute guided walk and then an opportunity to share in a circle what is present for us in our grief. Join us as Jessica Golderg and Rowan Rivers act as our guides during this process.
Anyone is welcome and the event will be donation based with half of the funds going towards PCCC and half going to the facilitators. This event is an offering to the community of Gainesville and outlying areas to acknowledge and even embrace grief as an important and natural part of life. Walking Grief Gainesville share the awareness that grief can be for loss of life, loss of relationships, parts of ourselves, life changes, and many more losses than can possibly be named. All grief is welcome and all people in all their various identities are welcomed. There is also an opportunity in Walking Grief Gainesville to engage in the healing relationships with the land and more than human beings that dwell at Prairie Creek. Walking Grief Gainesville acknowledge the ancestral lineage of the Timucuan people and hope that our practice will honor them. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Jessica Goldberg at jessicagoldberglcsw@gmail.com
About Jessica Goldberg and Rowan Rivers:
Jessica Goldberg(She/Her) is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist who has spent her career walking others through their underworld journeys into self love and healing! She was trained in Gestalt therapy and has studied ACT, IFS, and Jungian psychological archetypes. Jessica is finding more of who she is in midlife as she learns about decolonization and rites of passage. She hopes to bring these gifts of learning and unlearning to the world through her practice and in community. Jessica has deep reverence for nature and the Springs near her home in northeast Florida and all river ways that show us how to be powerful and flexible at the same time while being givers of life. Jessica enjoys her neurodivergent family and her pups who all bring daily joy and laughter. She hopes and acts to help usher in a new age based on earth wisdom
and reverence, as well as deep compassion and love!
Rowan Rivers(They/Them) is a spiritual director and licensed mental health counselor who has spent their career companioning others to cultivate self-compassion, reclaim their stories and to become self-allies. They have a radical relationship with truth and aim to provide a safe space for authenticity to emerge. Rowan strives to illuminate the individual as being alive in community, breathing in relationship and reorienting and aligning to the emergent and creative reality of being part of the Universe. They hope to support liberation through the reclamation of relationships disrupted by the colonization process and support themselves and others to reground in those relationships that were life giving to ancestors. Rowan orients themselves with the active support of ancestry, spiritual guides and the land.
WHEN:
October 7th, 2023
10:00am to 11:30am
Visitors should arrive at least fifteen minutes before the event to become orientated.
WHERE:
Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery
7204 SE County Road 234
Gainesville, FL 32641
We will plan to meet in the parking area at the head of the Kathy Cantwell (Blue) Trail.
COME PREPARED:
Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and sturdy shoes. People are also welcome to bring water bottles if desired.
RSVP
Attendance is limited to the first 15 people who register
