Young people need and deserve real recognition of their worth and purpose in life, and a living example of enduring discernment and courage for the hard and often empty times that are upon us all. The esteem of parents and friends can only go so far: elders must bring the rest. Grandparents must be grand not only for their children’s children, but for all the young ones coming into the world now. Their status as grand people comes from having wrangled wisdom from experience, and from having become elders more than senior citizens. Grandparents must now be elders even – especially – when no one asks it of them.
This is a training for elder-hood for people of all ages. It is for anyone with a desire to be useful to those now inheriting an endangered and often dangerous world, for those who have an instinct and a desire to be an ancestor worth being claimed, worth coming from. We will learn something of the skills of grace in a graceless time, of mentorship and true teaching, of fierce and exemplary grief and compassion. We will coax wisdom from old experience, and maybe we can replace retirement with esteemed elder-hood.
http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/Stephen-Jenkinson.html

TUITION: $535 CDN (meals & accommodation extra) / 5 nights
(800) 933-6339 or (250) 935-6576 (outside North America)
Email: registration@hollyhock.ca | Fax: (250) 935-6424
PO Box 127, Manson’s Landing, Cortes Island, B.C. V0P 1K0 Canada

Preliminary date for Warsaw Griefwalker screening & presentation: September 11th, 2013

Preliminary dates for weekend-long intensive teaching: September 13-15, 2013

Our commitment to future generations can be built on a willingness to learn and try and fail and learn some more about how a sane culture is a kind of cooking pot, the clay for which was taken from ancestral soil, and how that cooking pot hangs from a tripod of relation: how the villagers are with each other, how they are with the created world around them, how they are with the Unseen World. What would a culture look like if it didn’t offer old time authentic initiation for its young people? Well, look around, friends. This is what it looks like. Initiation coalesces a person’s kinship with humanity, with creation, with the other world.

Griefwalker video – click here.

FOR MORE INFO, contact: Dorota Kozusznik –Solarska, PATHWAYS
Mob.+48662020436   Email: dorota.kozusznik@pathways.com.pl
Fee: t.b.c.  (Early-bird Fee: t.b.c. )
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS LIMITED – RESERVATIONS NEEDED.

Polish website: http://stephenjenkinson.pl/StephenJenkinson.pl/Event.html

A weekend teaching for young and old by Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW
Getting older is inevitable.  Getting to be an elder is not.  Grief gets you there.
Young people need and deserve real recognition of their worth and purpose in life, and a living example of enduring discernment and courage for the hard and often empty times that are upon us all. The esteem of parents and friends can only go so far: elders must bring the rest. Elders’ status as grand people and god people comes from having wrangled wisdom from experience. Grandparents must now be elders even – especially – when no one asks it of them. The proving ground for learning elderhood is learning grief – an enormous challenge in a death phobic, grief illiterate, ‘be all you can be’ time.
This is a training for elder-hood for people of all ages. It is for anyone with a desire to be useful to those now inheriting an endangered and often dangerous world, for those who have an instinct and a desire to be an ancestor worth coming from.
Griefwalker video – click here.

September  27, 28, 29/2013
Fri. 7 pm start, Sat. 9:30-3:30 (ish), Sun. close at noon
Venue: St Laurence Church and Village Hall, East Street, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9PQ

FOR MORE INFO, contact:  Neda Nenadic,  Mobile +44 -777-903-3129
Email: neda.nenadic@gmail.com
Fee: £ 190 – Early bird £ 175 when paid in full by July 21, 2013
International Money Orders accepted or by using Eventbrite – http://orphanwisdom.com/event/weekend-long-teaching-in-england/
Good meals can be purchased on site. Tea included .
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS LIMITED – RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.