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Share feedback and testimonials about your experience at A Night of Grief and Mystery at https://bit.ly/post-NOGM

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First gathering on Friday, Aug 18 at 7pm in Malden

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Gather for connection and conversation with Nights of Grief and Mystery attendees and local volunteers as we practice the skill of grief -- namely by acknowledging ancestors and loved ones who have failed to live forever, and by welcoming and bearing witness to the grief of others.  This is also an opportunity to connect with folks in the region who share interest in deeper living, grief literacy, and a healthier relationship with death. The first gathering will be on Friday, Aug 18 at 7pm in Malden.

Please RSVP here.

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These Nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.

Get more info about the 2023 International Tour at https://orphanwisdom.com/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/

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2023 Nights of Grief and Mystery Tour Trailer

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Find or volunteer as a facilitator for doing personal work with plant medicine.

Their team carefully vets and trains facilitators to help mentor people looking to improve their lives and provide harm reduction advice for those exploring plant medicines. Their certified facilitators are authentic volunteers who only want to help you, not make a buck.

You can also apply to facilitate. If you have a passion for helping others find their passion in life and navigate challenges in their personal and professional lives, consider applying to our free training program and network. If you have what it takes, we'll connect you with people who have similar energies.

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Our team carefully vets and trains facilitators to help mentor people looking to improve their lives and provide harm reduction advice for those exploring plant medicines. Our certified facilitators are authentic volunteers who only want to help you, not make a buck!

Request a Facilitator Here!

If you have a passion for helping others find their passion in life and navigate challenges in their personal and professional lives, consider applying to our free training program and network. If you have what it takes, we'll connect you with people who have similar energies.

Apply to Become a Facilitator Here!

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Bay Staters For Natural Medicine | Facilitator Network

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Bay Staters has vetted and trained facilitators to compassionately mentor people looking to improve their lives and work through trauma with plant medicines (and without it too)

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Green burial is a way of returning bodies to the earth after death. Called “green” burial for its ecological soundness, it is also commonly known as natural burial.

Learn more at: https://greenburialma.org/

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Providing a graceful way for the people you love, and the people you serve, to bow out in style.

See: www.lastdanceshrouds.com

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We're an organization dedicated to improving care, expanding options and empowering everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

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Elaine S. Saunders is the Chair of the Genevieve N. Johnson Senior Day Care Center Advisory Council, based in Washington, DC. As part of its goals, the Genevieve N. Johnson Senior Day Care Center has the ultimate objective to make a joyful, improved, and quality-driven life for all of its senior citizen clients.

"Protect your legacy. Get your affairs in order. Make a plan and share it with your loved ones-I have."

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A long-time advocate for medical aid in dying, Roger Kligler is a retired physician in Falmouth, MA, living with prostate cancer.

"I want this option to be clearly authorized in Massachusetts in my lifetime-for me, for you, for everyone."

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Compassion & Choices | End-of-Life Resources

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Compassion & Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

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The goal of Funeral Consumers Alliance is to ensure consumers are fully prepared and protected when planning a funeral for themselves or their loved ones. We do this by offering objective facts about funeral planning so families can plan a meaningful goodbye that fits their needs and their budget.

See: https://funerals.org/

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The new novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, by campaigner and storyteller Chuck Collins, explores altar-building, alternative approaches to death and dying, and one community’s response to climate disruption.

See: www.chuckcollinswrites.com

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"... awakens us to the subtle correspondences & conversations our inner & outer body have with each other.”—Patricia

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Are you ready to re-connect with your innate strength and capacity to learn? To discover previously untapped physical and emotional resources?

Yes? Join me for Feldenkrais Method® classes virtual and in person.  Taught by Angela Alston, GCFP, MFA.

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When someone you love is hurting, you hurt with them.

In a culture that dismisses grief as something to ‘get over’ as quickly as possible, how do you help?

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When you lose someone who was your everything, grief is devastating. Your world is forever changed. As life moves on for friends and family, you can find yourself feeling alone with no familiar landmarks to guide your way.

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The Northeast Death Care Collaborative aims to encourage networking, education, collaboration, and resource sharing among individual practitioners and organizations providing end-of-life services and death care in northeastern portions of North America, and beyond.

Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/NEDCollaborative/

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The Date with Death Club is an opportunity to explore mortality in community. Through educational discussions, conversation, and reflection, you will have space and support to learn, share, and deepen your own understanding of what death means to you and how you want to approach death — particularly your own.

Find us at: https://www.meetup.com/date-with-death-club/

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The Date with Death Club is an opportunity to explore mortality in community. Through educational discussions, conversation, and reflection, you will have space and support to learn, share, and deepen your own understanding of what death means to you and how you want to approach death - particularly your own.

Informed by spiritual sensibilities, DwDC has no specific religious dogma. The DwDC concept, branding, curriculum, and the slides we will use in the program were created by Karen G. Johnston, MSW, M.Div. To learn more about DwDC and Karen G. Johnston's work, please see https://datewithdeathclub.com/

Designed as a multi-session learning experience, DwDC invites participants to attend one, many, or all of the offered sessions. Each session has been developed with an intentional anti-oppression approach and with a strong pedagogical container to help create the necessary safe[r], brave[r] space for best exploration.

DwDC is not a bereavement or grief support group. While it may be healing of the human condition, the nature of the DwDC is not specifically therapeutic.

Sessions will take place online via Zoom, starting at 2:00 pm on select Sundays, and will typically run about 2.5 hours long. Sessions will be facilitated by First Church JP's resident death doula, Minda Sanchez Jariwala, with support from Rev. Elizabeth Bukey Saunter. The Zoom link and other information will be sent to pre-registered participants prior to each session date. To register, click here.

All sessions are free of charge. Participants are welcome to make donations to the group sponsor -- First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist -- but donations are not required to participate.

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Kim began Pocket Grief after the death of her husband. The beautifully illustrated books are pocket sized, perfect to carry with you, and pull out when you get hit with a grief attack. Keepsakes to remind you are not alone.
See:  https://www.pocketgrief.com/

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At Pocket Grief we created keepsake sized books about the grief experience for you to carry around. After you lose a loved one grief happens when you least expect. It is our hope that these books are like having a loving friend in your pocket.

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Prudence Memorial Park is the only exclusively green burial ground in Rhode Island. It provides a beautiful final resting place while helping to preserve the natural environment.

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Prudence Memorial Park LLC was created to shape and preserve a natural area for the benefit of the natural environment, provide a final resting place for members of the Prudence Island community, establish a natural burial ground option for the general public, and to offer a place for quiet reflection for future generations of visitors.

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Created to shape and preserve a natural area, establish a natural burial ground option for the general public in RI, and offer a place for quiet reflection

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Partner entities are entirely responsible for their postings here and activities elsewhere. Although we hope that these postings are of interest, these entities are not necessarily endorsed by the organizers of the event or of this notice board.

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More about Stephen Jenkinson's work. Shop books, films and albums.

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Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time he won't live to see. When not on the road, he makes books, succumbs to interviews, tends to labours on a small farm, mends broken handles and fences, and bends towards lifeways dictated by the seasons of the boreal borderlands.

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Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from.

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"Grief is not a feeling, it's a skill."

Short clip from Griefwalker, the astoundingly beautiful documentary that draws on Stephen Jenkinson's experiences in the Death Trade.

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53 seconds · Clipped by Morternity · Original video "Stephen Jenkinson - Griefwalker - Trailer" by Stephen Jenkinson

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Our way of life has never been less sustainable. "This is not the time for okay people being okay..."

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Come of Age by Stephen Jenkinson | Official Book Trailer

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"It's in the nature of being human to forget how to be one on occasion ..."

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59 seconds · Clipped by Morternity · Original video “Stephen Jenkinson - The Making of Humans” by Stephen Jenkinson

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2018 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour with Gregory Hoskins Band

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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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Stephen Jenkinson's seminal book about dying, grief and the great love of life. About what we owe and what we can give; to ourselves, our children and those who love us.

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Stephen Jenkinson - Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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"The current appetite is for either distraction or distress. These two seem to be in neither business."

A Night of Grief & Mystery combines stories and observations by author/culture activist Stephen Jenkinson, drawn from his decades of work in palliative care, with original songs/sonics by recording artist Gregory Hoskins.

The two Canadians have been working, recording and touring together for 8 years. They come to the road in 2023 as they did in the beginning: the two of them, a singer and a storyteller, out into the mystery days.

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Featuring Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins, this short film by Ian MacKenzie tells the origin story of The Nights of Grief and Mystery

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2018 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour - Origins

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Gregory Hoskins' song recorded with his band at the Dead Starling Studio

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Take A Little Walk, Dead Starling Session

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Is it possible to find meaning at the end of life?

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Stephen Jenkinson - The Meaning of Death

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Griefwalker is a Tim Wilson documentary from the National Film Board of Canada. With gorgeous cinematography, the film describes the exquisite disfunction of our death phobic culture. A former palliative care counselor, Stephen Jenkinson describes the wretched anxiety he witnessed in his work. As we follow stories of the dying, we find our hearts broken; not heartbreak of the sentimental heartbreak  of the  variety  but hearts broken open in the way that allows for healing.

The film is available to stream for free here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker/

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Stephen Jenkinson - Griefwalker - Trailer

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“You thought there was something wrong. Turns out there’s something gone…. in everything.”

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"Welcome to the cosmic constant of our endings"

A short film by Ian MacKenzie

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"It isn't fatal, baby.  It's fate."

Trailer to the album, Dark Roads/ Rough Gods.

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Join a nascent community of folks struck by the Nights of Grief and Mystery who want to connect and learn about about end-of-life practices and resources in our region.  Click on this link to provide event feedback, as well as to opt-in for future communications.

https://bit.ly/post-NOGM

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Enjoy complimentary access to the stream of 'Useful' from Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins ROUGH GODS cd (released in 2020)

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This is the fourth (and last) recorded version of this song. The intention here was to clear space for the lyrics. You would think that is always the intention, but no, sometimes other things clamour for attention. I wanted to be able to settle into the words on this version in a way that seemed difficult to do while on tour.

I am yours to do your bidding
It's been this way since the beginning
Now my hair is grey and thinning
Do you need me anymore?

I have watched the burning skies
Through a coward's eyes
Ignored the battle cries
That are right outside my door.
Stumbled drunk through love and joy
Far too long the mannish boy
But I'm ready to deploy
Make me useful in a war.

Make me useful, useful,
You don't have to tell me what side I'm fighting for.

Purify my ambition
Sanctify my secret mission
Make me Black Ops, cut the cord
Deny that I was even in the war.

Take my head out of the heavens
Take my hands and make them weapons
Hold me to the oath I swore
Make me useful in a war.

Make me deaf to my own voice
I wont question any choice
Coming down from the Commodore
Make me useful in a war.

Throw me in the line of fire
Make me climb the razor wire
Until my flesh is torn
Make me useful in a war.

Take my fear and give it edges
Make me dance out on the ledges
Make me hungry (humble), make me poor
Make me useful in a war.

from ROUGH GODS, released November 18, 2020
Gregory Hoskins- Guitars, Melodion, Bass, Synth, Voice
Adam Bowman- Drums
Stephen Jenkinson- Guitar
Lisa Hodgson- Voice

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Useful In A War: Redux 2020, by Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins

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Useful In A War: Redux 2020 by Gregory Hoskins, released 18 November 2020 I am yours to do your bidding It's been this way since the beginning Now my hair is grey and thinning Do you need me anymore? I have watched the burning skies Through a coward's eyes Ignored the battle cries That are right outside my door.

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This short film is a faithful record of a band’s first encounter performing material meant for the road but kept from the road for two years. Shot over 5 hours on December 12, 2021 in a 125 year-old factory that is home to Dead Starling Studio, the film features material from 2020’s ROUGH GODS as well as a reimagined piece, 2 new works, and some intimate pre/post roll footage that help situate the personalities in the task they took on.

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Enjoy this complimentary track, "Dead Soon", from The Nights of Grief and Mystery

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Dead Soon, by Stephen Jenkinson, Gregory Hoskins

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Dead Soon by Gregory Hoskins, released 29 October 2017

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Songs from 2017’s Vain + Alone reimagined and re-recorded

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Gregory Hoskins' official website: https://gregoryhoskins.com/tag/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/

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Click on this link to access a large playlist of videos with interviews, trailers, music videos and etc about Orphan Wisdom and The Nights of Grief and Mystery

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Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, ceremonialist and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from.