Grief Tending: The Places That Have Not Known Love
A journey through the 5 Gates of Grief with an emphasis on welcoming home our disowned parts & returning love to the forgotten places within
This 4-hour workshop is the first of a series of workshops offering an invitation to journey through Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief. This first workshop offers a tender focus on the places within us that have not known love - where grief, remembrance, and reclamation become pathways back to wholeness
Join us: Saturday October 11th
@ 12.30pm to 4.30pm
The Loft at Little Dippers, 40 Upper Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4AN
GET YOUR TICKETWhy Join? Are you:
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Longing to reconnect with parts of yourself that feel lost, forgotton or disowned?
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Carrying unprocessed grief beneath the surface - quiet, unspoken, or unnamed?
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Struggling to integrate experiences of loss - whether emotional, relational, existential, or identity-based?
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Craving a somatic, soulful container to gently meet those lost parts and bring them back into wholeness?
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Seeking guidance on how grief can become a bridge to deeper self-awareness and soulful aliveness?
Step into a 4-hour immersive journey to support deep inner transformation through the body, heart, soul and spirit.
Do you feel like a part of you has fallen away under the weight of grief or life’s pressures? Are you yearning to rediscover the hidden, the lost, the disowned parts of yourself?
This 4-hour immersive workshop gently guides you through the thresholds of grief and into the healing alchemy of the places that have not known love. Through meditation, journaling, ritual, sound, and circle-sharing, you'll weave back together the pieces of your truest and most whole Self.
This Journey Will Support You to:
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Engage with grief through a compassionate and empowering framework - the Five Gates
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Tend to wounded parts with ritual, sound, and journaling
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Reclaim lost or disowned aspects of your being with clarity
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Anchor your experience with creative intention, embodied presence, and guided integration
What's Included:
Introduction & Grounding Meditation
We begin with an opening circle to welcome, set intentions and create a safe, holding container. We offer a guided practice to settle into the body, open the heart, and anchor presence—preparing us to journey inward.
Introducing the
Five Gates of Grief
We begin by introducing each of the five gates and offering brief guidance on how these gates manifest. Today, we will zone in on the first gate - the places that have not known love.
Guided Journaling & Sharing
Journaling prompts designed to explore and connext with your grief including what part of self feels fragmented or lost. Optional Sharing in pairs or small-group sharing to give voice to what’s arisen
Process for Reclaiming & Acknowledging Lost / Disowned Parts
We will engage in a group process to acknowledge the parts of ourselves that have not known love or the parts of us that have been disowned. We will invite these parts to be brought back into awareness and held in compassion.
Sound Journey with Tibetan Singing Bowls
Through a guided and immersive sound journey we will gently return back to the body and integrate our experience. The sound journey, and the option to receive reiki will help you to ground and regulate before returning home.
Closing integration Circle
We will close the session by sharing reflections, grounding the energy, and receiving tools to continue your journey beyond the workshop. We have plenty of time for connecting with each other at the end of the session.
You'll leave the session with...
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Clarity and Compassion for where grief has left its mark and how it may be guiding your healing.
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Reclaimed Parts of your identity or self that may have been disowned or lost along the journey of life.
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Embodied Insight from the sound journey and ritual that can be carried home with you after the 4-hour workshop.
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Practical Tools for ongoing grief tending, self connection, honouring inner parts, and nurturing integration
Meet your Facilitator
Jules De Vitto
Jules is a transpersonal coach, trainer, and experienced educator with over 18 years of study and practice in the fields of psychology, coaching, therapy, and education. She holds a BSc in Psychology, an MA in Education, and an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness, and Spirituality. Jules specialises in guiding individuals through deep emotional and spiritual transformation, supporting them to align with their authentic power and life purpose.
With a strong foundation in transpersonal approaches, Jules draws on integrative methods that honour the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and spiritual transformation. She is a Reiki Master and Teacher and has completed Michael Harner’s Shamanic Practitioner Training through the Foundation of Shamanic Studies, as well as a Grief Ritual Leadership Training with Francis Weller. Jules' has led retreats and a grief retreat when working at a mindfulness based retreat centre in Portugal. Her work is rooted in years of personal and professional engagement with transformative healing modalities.
Jules is also a published author, contributing to the Resilience book series with her title Navigating Loss in a Time of Crisis. Her writing has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal and the Journal of Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, and via platforms including SAND (Science and Nonduality) and Highly Sensitive Refuge. She has been invited to speak on numerous podcasts and events on topics including transpersonal coaching, spiritual development, and emotional transformation. Jules is also the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy.
In addition to her writing and coaching, Jules is the senior editor of the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal and continues to contribute to the field through teaching as one of the tutors at Alef Trust's Transpersonal Coaching Psychology 1-year Certificate Programme.
- -Michael, UK
'Jules is wonderful in the sense that, she holds the space for everyone, honouring each person’s process, allowing the transformation to occur slowly, silently, and soothingly. She is caring, warm and a sincere person who puts her heart and soul into helping people through their self-healing. Her calm energy always has a huge influence on me, and I experience a deep sense of relaxation during her sessions. I feel refreshed and energised the day after.
- -Sandra
Jules and Genevieve, the way you hold space, the quiet, soft strength you both radiate, the unconditional respect and love you offer flowed throughout the entire weekend - and before and after. Your thoughtfulness in the poems, the words spoken, the meditations and music you both shared that were so beautifully in alignment with each element of the sessions, were what I am most grateful for/enjoyed the most.
-Lottie
Space Holder
Amanda Parker
Amanda is a member of the UK Reiki Federation and has trained in psychic mediumship at the College of Psychic Studies and in shamanism with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She is also a certified professional coach, facilitator, and Executive MBA graduate from IE Business School. Since 2017, she has supported individuals and organizations such as the World Bank Group, UNICEF, World Economic Forum, and Zalando through transformational growth and leadership development.
Her earlier career in wildlife conservation with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) took her across South America, protecting forests and wetlands. Originally from New York, Amanda spent over a decade in Berlin before settling in London, where she now lives with her husband and their two cats, Zaki & Oreo.
Get your ticket here:
Tending to the Places That Have Not Known Love
Saturday October 12th
12.30pm to 4.30pm
The Loft at Little Dippers, 40 Upper Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4AN