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Stephen Jenkinson – two workshop weekends in Wales with Stephen Jenkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Meaning of Death<\/strong><\/em>
\nSaturday 22nd \u2013 Sunday 23rd November 2014 \u2013 Tredegar House, Newport Gwent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Death \u2013 the cradle of your love of life\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nSaturday 29th \u2013 Sunday 30th November 2014 –\u00a0Small World Theatre, Cardigan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets per weekend: Full \u00a3160. <\/strong>Includes lunches and refreshments but not accommodation. Concessions are available on request, please email explaining your circumstances. Discounts also available if you wish to attend both weekends. holyhiatuswales@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer, ceremonialist and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, Ottawa, Canada, a teaching house for the skills of deep living, good dying, and crafting human culture. It is a redemptive project, rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time beyond our years www.orphanwisdom.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a young age we see around us that grief is mostly an affliction, a misery that intrudes into the life we deserve, a rupture of the natural order of things. Here\u2019s the revolution: What if grief is a skill, in the same way that love is a skill, something that must be learned and cultivated and taught? What if grief is the natural order of things, a way of loving life anyway? Grief and the love of life belong together. They are natural human skills that can be learned first by being on the receiving end and feeling worthy of them, later by practicing them when you run short of understanding. In a time like ours, grieving is a subversive act\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two screenings<\/a> of the film Griefwalker<\/em> with Q & A with Stephen are also took place at Cube Cinema, Bristol and Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan<\/p>\n

The Meaning of Death\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Tredegar House, Newport Gwent<\/a>
\nSaturday 22nd November 2014 9.30 am \u2013 3.30 pm Sunday 23rd Nov 10 am\u2013 3.30 pm<\/p>\n

\u2018This is a day to practice something of the crazed wisdom and radical etiquette of the ending of days, which is our human birthright\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u00a0began as technological sophistication and therapeutic savvy is now what must be called Health Madness, and it\u2019s home ground is the grief-and-loss industry. This meeting will probe the cultural poverty of our time that masquerades as individual freedom, and consider deeply the project of reviving the withered imagination which lingers in each of our attempts to cope, hope and, when that fails, dope. Themes to be considered include: languages of essence and relation, the tripod of health, faithful witness unto death, the spells of eternity and universality.<\/p>\n

Death \u2013 the cradle of your love of life\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nSaturday 29th \u2013 Sunday 30th November 2014 –\u00a0Small World Theatre, Cardigan \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>
\nSaturday 29th November 2014 9.30 am \u2013 3.30 pm. Performance: 5.30 pm re-member 3<\/em><\/strong> Alisa Richardson. Sunday 30th November 10 am \u2013 3.30 pm<\/p>\n

\u2018Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life\u2026is death\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The relentless pursuit of self-reliance and self improvement is rooted in the lost connection to common stories, homeland and ancestors that bind and unite people. The times now demand that we recognize the world\u2019s suffering in our own. Stephen Jenkinson teaches the skills of grief, broken heartedness and spiritual activism, all harnessed to the long overdue project of building a world-feeding inner life whose joy is rooted in knowing well its end.<\/p>\n

Most dying people\u2019s fear of what will become of them is bound up with their fear of what we will do with them after they die. They fear most our ability to live, eventually, as if they\u2019d never been. This is the exponential consequence of living without ancestors, that we may have lost the ability to become one. The willingness to remember great sorrow, unsuspected loss, blank pages in the story of who we are, this is grief in action.<\/p>\n

Stephen Jenkinson Film \u2013 The Making of Humans<\/strong><\/p>\n