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aN online course for facilitators & Grief tenders birthing new worlds in troubled times 🕸️
15% off through October 15th!
Easing the Passage is facilitation course for those looking to hold group spaces for grief with the joy, tenderness, rootedness, and tenacity these times call for.
This self paced study contains access to all the guest workshops and course materials in the live Easing the Passage course for a fraction of the cost and time commitment.
Course Topics
Click on the headings below for a list of subtopics!
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Facilitation 101: What it is and why it’s needed
Facilitation for Collective Agency & Remembering ourselves as multitudes
Skills of effective facilitators
Facilitating spaces for grief: from rituals to support groups and other processes
Facilitating community spaces where grief is present, but not the focus
Facilitation as a Collective Skill: Against Professionalization & Towards Proliferation of Facilitators
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Community Grief Work: What is it?
Decolonizing Grief Studies
Grief as Holy Disruptor: Grief work as political work
Grief Tending as Culture Building
Grieving under Capitalism: Against the repression & co-optation of fear, loss, grief, and trauma
Towards Worlds of Many Worlds: The need for a diversity of grief tending spaces, approaches, and practices
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Identifying your whys, your values, your joys, your skills, and communities you might (or already) work with
Filling your cup, finding your ecosystem: Getting clear on the practices, mentors, relationships, & systems that will support you in this work
Setting boundaries and clear expectations for the scope of your work
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A short history of capitalism, industrialization of death care, and context for un/paid care work
Examining “Money Mindset”, Capitalist Ideologies, and orientations towards accepting pay and exchange for community care work
Demystifying LLCs, taxes, bookkeeping, budgeting, and financial literacy related to working for yourself
Pricing structures and livelihood models that create access AND sustainability
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Practicing, reflecting on, and strategizing approaches to facilitation
Developing & workshopping offerings with cohort feedback
Communicating about your offerings and the work you do
Identifying next steps, approaches, boundaries, and practices that make this work sustainable for you
The self paced study is a great option for you if…
You are looking to hunker down with resources and your process on your own, rather than participate in the group aspects of the course
You’re not really a zoom or online calls person (except occasionally)
You want to move through materials at your own pace
The live class filled before you were able to sign up
What’s included
Over 12 hours of pre0recorded video content, comprised of:
14 pre-recorded lectures from me
5 recorded workshops with our guest instructors!
Handouts (PDF and MP3), readings, journal prompts, and more for each of our units
Access to a discord specifically for other self paced study participants
Feedback on your work if you’d like to submit a proposal for the grief facilitation work you are dreaming into the world!
What’s not included
Live or recorded access to Easing the Passage Cohort zoom sessions (besides recordings of workshops with guest instructors)
Cost
$50 $42.50 per month for 10 months or one payment of $500 $425 for early birds who sign up by October 15th!
Instructors, Facilitators, + ecosystem
mara june
primary instructor + Facilitator
Mara June is (they/them) is an educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, and community herbalist. They’re excited about plant magic, story-telling, art + ritual making, shapeshifting, and dreaming together.
Mara’s death care and grief support work is community oriented, taking place in longer term, group settings to feed the collective work of growing more deeply attuned and resourced communities who love, care, dream, and create courageously in times of loss, change, and grief.
To learn more about my trainings, approaches, and background, check out my about me page.
naila francis
Guest instructor
Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an interfaith minister and a writer/poet. As the founder of This Hallowed Wilderness, she helps people transform their relationship to grief and loss through holistic, heart-centered individual support, workshops, community grief tending and rituals. Her work is often informed by her love of poetry, nature and community. She is also a co-founder of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective normalizing and holding space for grief through community rituals. An ardent joy enthusiast, Naila believes in grieving well as a liberatory practice that deepens our capacity for pleasure, connection and compassion.
Cassandra Lam
Somatic PRactitioner and Liberatory rest Educator
Cassandra Lam (she/her) is a neurodivergent Vietnamese-Chinese politicized somatic practitioner, liberatory rest educator, and community grief-tender based on the unceded lands of the Cherokee (Asheville, NC).
In these times of collapse, her ancestors called on her to gather and guide communities to grieve, rest, and care for one another as a means of “survival pending revolution” (quote by Huey P. Newton). She founded Collective Rest in 2021 to help people feel safe enough to slow down, address soul burnout at the roots, and reawaken night consciousness (our soul-led ability to see, move, and create in the dark). Cassandra offers virtual and in-person grief rituals, collective rest experiences, 1:1 mentorship for individuals and practitioners, and workshops.
Rooted in Asian spiritual lineages and in service to collective liberation, Cassandra is passionate about creating spaces of refuge where people of the global majority can sing, cry, laugh, dream, remember, and accompany each other through The Long Dark in a good way.
Dori Midnight
Guest Instructor
Dori Midnight is a community care worker, ritual artist, theologian, writer, and deep listener oriented towards collective healing and liberation. For over two decades, Dori has woven rituals and practiced intuitive, community based healing in one-on-one sessions and in radical movement spaces, in collaboration with the seen and unseen, plants, stones, songs, and more. Dori offers workshops on rituals and remedies for unraveling times, re-enchanting Jewish ancestral wisdoms as a liberatory practice, and queer magic and healing. Supported and inspired by a wide web of dreamers, witches, artists, and web workers, Dori’s work is also rooted in feminist, decolonial and abolitionist scholarship, queer liberation, and disability and healing justice work. Dori has been in deep cahoots with movement work for Palestinian liberation, prison abolition, and queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice. Dori lives on the occupied lands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc, by the Quinnehtukqut River, also known as Northampton, Massachusetts.
Camille Sapara Barton
Guest instructor
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille supports people to reduce stress and increase resilience, while navigating change. They also offer trauma informed facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics.
Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens.
Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024). Based in Amsterdam, they designed and directed MA Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023) which explored how embodiment and socially engaged art making can create change through the body, into the wider world.
Danielle Shilling
Administrative + Teaching Assistant
Danielle is a poet, herbalist, and teacher. As a self proclaimed Venusian, her life is guided by colors, textures and her all consuming enamorment with the Earth. She has found great friendship in plant allies and immense healing within the natural world. She is thrilled to be a part of the Motherwort and Rose team, assisting behind the scenes and supporting students. As a former participant of Tears of the Gods, she has a personal appreciation and tender care for the magic these spaces hold. She is looking forward to deepening her connection with you all, and the world of grief tending. Her favorite flower at the moment, is Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis.
When she is not working for Motherwort and Rose, she is seeing clients for flower essence and herbal consultations. She is currently accepting new clients!
Danielle’s website
faq
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As long as you complete your payment plan, you will have lifetime access to the course player and materials. All materials also are downloadable files, so you will have lifetime access to those which you download even if you cancel your subscription.
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Unfortunately, no (the cohorts began this past May and end in October!). I’m not sure if/when I’ll be running the live cohort again, but you can join that waitlist here.
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Please double check your spam folder. Emails from me should come from the address info@motherwortandrose.com. If you still haven’t found anything, please email me to let me know!
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YES. There are scholarships available for those in need- just email me @ info@motherwortandrose.com and let me know if you're looking for a partial or full scholarship. 🌸