Connection Matters Podcast

Good Grief with Rebecca Card - Conversations about personal and cultural grief and routes to healing

Episode Summary

In this episode with Rebecca Card we talk about grief, death, community, wholeness and celebration. As we awaken to the realities of the current political, environmental and cultural breakdown, we discuss the questions, how can we really truly address past historic trauma, ancestral grief and cultural repair in a good way? How can we make space for a healthy transition to a more authentic way of living and true belonging?

Episode Notes

Things we talk about in this episode

• The Art of Mentoring
• Cultural Healing
• The power and magic in catching storie
• The Eight Shields Model for nature connection
• The Village- the many elements of the Art of Mentoring that make a well held and healthy, safe and happy gathering
• Grief Ceremony - a place to be witnessed, supported and to release whatever needs to move -
• Dominant Culture not connected, with natural cycles, nature, fullness of emotions
• Modern phobia’s- nature, death, difficult and strong emotions
• When we are in a safe place in a strong container, a well held space, grief naturally arises. The experience can really deepen.
• When we give time to REALLY thinking about ancestral pain, displacement, colonisation, witch hunts, the grief arises with force.
• Trauma held from ancestral lineages
• Macro- Cultural grief, history, climate
  Micro- trauma, personal grief
• Grief work, stepping stone to addressing trauma
• Things we expected but did not receive- elders, welcoming,
• The awakening- realisations from COVID-19
• Lessons from the return to simplicity- community, family, natur
• What would a culture that tends to its grief well look like? How do we tend to grief well?
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world
• Modelling and tending our own grief leads to a more authentic way of living, leads to love.
• Is Grief tending morbid and depressing?
• The good feeling that comes from tending grief- warmth, love, belonging, togetherness, beauty
• Stuckness and depressions is a sickness that comes when we cannot express our grief in a healthy way.
• Lost Connections - book
• Grief is intimate, connection, authentic, openness
• How do we tend to our own grief
  Build relationships- to an anchor, a person, being that can listen to our story
  Connection to the elements and other beings
  Water-transmuter of grief
  Trees, special places, the earth
• The earth can take the grief, rage, despair and compost it.
• Offering grief in service to life- with the intention for healing
• Grief is not self indulgent, selfish, grief is needed.
• Creating points and places of connection to life-
• Stephen Jenkinson- No need to fetishise death.
• Nature based human development
• Facets of wholeness- sub personalities
• Transitional Threshold work

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Biography

I work as a Guide, Facilitator and Ceremonialist of Nature~based Wisdom, Cultural Healing and Soul Initiation.  I’m a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide and Cultural Mentor supporting people to re~member Wholeness as part of the collective initiation I believe is needed at this time and as part of the journey towards knowing our belonging to the earth and the earth community.

I am also a qualified and experienced Yoga teacher, Meditation Instructor and Somatic Movement facilitator. My encounters with the other-than-human world and tracking the journey of soul inspire me to write creatively.  I have trained in the ways of Apache Scout and Shaman, Grandfather Stalking Wolf, and I’m involved with the 8 Shields UK as a Village Builder, organising and facilitating 8 Shields programs.

I believe in the power of ceremony, community and sitting in circle for deep healing and authentic connection. My passion is in  re~membering Wholeness and finding creative ways to explore that. My joy is in tending the hearth, the garden, being with the birds. the land and spending time nurturing deeply fulfilling friendships.