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Stephen Jenkinson will be back to west Wales between 17th and 21st May 2017 for the first of his UK Orphan Wisdom School sessions in Llanrhian, Pembrokeshire. This event is run by Orphan Wisdom, please direct all enquiries to Nathalie Roy nathalie@orphanwisdom.com<\/p>\n

Details about the May 2017 session can be found here\u00a0http:\/\/orphanwisdom.com\/event\/orphan-wisdom-school-new-overseas-class-come-from-away-1-4\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Scroll down to read comments from people who have attended our other events with Stephen.<\/p>\n

Stephen Jenkinson Archive<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Following the overwhelming response to his previous visit in 2014, Stephen Jenkinson, founder of the Orphan Wisdom School<\/a> returned to the UK in 2015 for a number of events, including four dates with Holy Hiatus in Wales.<\/p>\n

Friday 6th November 7-9 pm – Evening talk at Bridges Community Centre<\/a>, Drybridge House, Monmouth, Wales <\/strong>
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An Introduction to Dying Wise<\/em><\/p>\n

Die Wise<\/a>\u00a0teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Not a seven step coping strategy, not an out-clause for trauma or sorrow, Die Wise is for everyone who, hell or high water, is not going to pull off eternity after all. Dying is not the end of wisdom and wisdom not exhausted by dying. Dying could be and must be the fullest expression and incarnation of what you\u2019ve learned by living. It\u2019s a moral obligation to die well. If you love somebody, if you care about the world that\u2019s to come after you, if you want somebody to be spared the lunacy of what you\u2019ve seen, you\u2019ve got to die wise. This evening begins to imagine a way of doing so.<\/p>\n

Saturday 7th November 9.30-3.30<\/strong> – One day teaching at Bridges Community Centre<\/a>, Drybridge House, Monmouth, Wales. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Making Meaning of the Ending of Days<\/em><\/p>\n

Many among us now are crazy for meanings, and crazed by seeking them out. The meanings of life aren\u2019t inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life\u2019s meanings a chance to show.
\nThe beginning of the end of our life, and maybe our way of life, is now in view. It has always been there. This isn\u2019t punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born. Instead, the world whispers: All we need of you is that you be human, now. Our work is to sort out what being human should be in such a time.<\/p>\n

Friday 13th November 7-9 pm Evening Talk at Theatr Gwaun,<\/a> Fishguard, Wales.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Introduction to Dying Wise<\/em><\/p>\n

Die Wise<\/a>\u00a0teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Not a seven step coping strategy, not an out-clause for trauma or sorrow, Die Wise is for everyone who, hell or high water, is not going to pull off eternity after all. Dying is not the end of wisdom and wisdom not exhausted by dying. Dying could be and must be the fullest expression and incarnation of what you\u2019ve learned by living. It\u2019s a moral obligation to die well. If you love somebody, if you care about the world that\u2019s to come after you, if you want somebody to be spared the lunacy of what you\u2019ve seen, you\u2019ve got to die wise. This evening begins to imagine a way of doing so.<\/p>\n

Saturday 14th November 9.30-3.30\u00a0 – One day teaching at Trefacwn<\/a>, Llanrhrian, Pembrokeshire, Wales. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Making a Village Whole: Caring for the Living and Carrying the Dead<\/em><\/p>\n

In a culture without much real ceremony, that doesn\u2019t tolerate endings of any kind, it\u2019s a necessary and proper thing that all of us learn about dying and about death. We must learn\u00a0how to care for the dying people in our midst, and how to die when it is our turn,\u00a0well before the time of being tested and told comes. This teaching is for people who will die, who are dying,\u00a0and\u00a0who love or care for those who will die. It is for those who wish to live deeply and to die well.\u00a0It teaches the dying time as a place to learn our humanity and the noble, courageous skills of village-making for those we will not live to meet. Chief among these are the willingness to remember sorrow, to start with cultural poverty, to grieve together, and to gather the dead into your village.<\/p>\n