Ongoing Healing Circle for Grief and Loss of a Life Partner

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February 20 @ 4:30 pm
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6:00 pm
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This Healing Circle is now full. Please contact Kiersten at kiersten@smithcenter.org for information.
with Wendy Miller & Larry Kanter
This ongoing healing circle will focus on the unique needs of those experiencing the loss, recently or not, of a spouse or partner. No matter where you find yourself in your journey with grief, a chance to be with others who have lost a spouse or partner can lead to profound learning and healing.
Come join us in our healing circle of collaborative conversations.
Healing Circles bring together small numbers of people impacted by a condition or circumstance to share experiences and harvest collective wisdom.  A Healing Circle is a peer-led process by which people support each other through deep listening and shared learning. When working at its best, this collaborative conversation model leads to authentic and deep connectivity and can create wisdom and healing for participants.
What is a Healing Circle?
Healing Circles bring together small numbers of people impacted by a condition or circumstance to share experiences and harvest collective wisdom.  Healing Circles is a peer-led process by which people support each other through deep listening and shared learning. When working at its best, this collaborative conversation model leads to authentic and deep connectivity and can create wisdom and healing for participants.
Pre-registration is required prior to attending your first group.  Please RSVP to Kiersten at 202.483.8600 or email her at
kiersten@smithcenter.org
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This Healing Circle meets on Thursdays twice per month from 4:30pm – 6:00pm.
Upcoming sessions:
February 20
March 5 & 19
About Wendy Miller
Moving here many years ago from the SF Bay Area, my relationship with Commonweal led me to Barbara Smith Coleman. I am proud to have been part of an early group of people with Shanti Norris who met with Barbara to envision the cancer retreats, a healing center, and gallery for Smith Center. Years later when my late husband Gene Cohen was facing metastatic prostate cancer, he went to Commonweal for his cancer retreat. The gift of community support, reflection, and care guided the choices we made through the many years of living with cancer in our family body. I became a widow in 2009.
Wendy Miller is an expressive arts therapist, artist, and writer living in Kensington, MD. In 2016, she published the book,
, about her life and work with her late husband. It is a spiritual treatise on love and creativity during life’s major transitions.
About Larry Kanter
My late wife, Alex Todorovich, passed away in 2009 from breast cancer. My work with the Smith Center began in 2007 when Alex and I attended the Center’s week-long retreat, which marked a turning point in our understanding of what it means to really live, to love life, and to live in the embrace of a healing community. After Alex’s passing the Center’s Hisaoaka Gallery mounted a show of Alex’s art entitled “How to Leave a Well-Traveled Road” which documented her life, her fears, her loves and the path she chose at its end.
Larry Kanter is a graphic designer living in Washington, DC and is a Smith Center friend and an ardent supporter of the Center’s work.
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Date:
February 20
Time:
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:
Cancer Support In Washington, DC
Event Tags:
Cancer Community
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Cancer Support
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Caregivers
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Family Support
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Grief and Loss
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Healing
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Healing Cirlce
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Support
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Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U Street, NW
Washington
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DC
20009
United States
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Phone:
202.483.8600
Website:
http://www.smithcenter.org
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