EnglishEnglish
EnglishEnglishArabicArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)Chinese (Traditional)DanishDanishDutchDutchFinnishFinnishFrenchFrenchGermanGermanGreekGreekHebrewHebrewHindiHindiHmongHmongHungarianHungarianItalianItalianJapaneseJapaneseKoreanKoreanPersianPersianPolishPolishPortuguesePortuguesePunjabiPunjabiRomanianRomanianRussianRussianSlovenianSlovenianSpanishSpanishSwahiliSwahiliSwedishSwedishThaiThaiTurkishTurkishUrduUrdu

Jeffrey Morrison - What's Grief Got to do With it?

July 22 2023
An Online Class Facilitated by Jeffery Morrison

Part of The Focusing Highlights Series

 

“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give.” ~Francis Weller

This presentation is an opportunity to explore the relationship between the sorrow life brings and the joy experienced when burdens are set down, making room for a fluid heart that embraces the joyful sorrow of life in connection with others.

Jeffrey will share reflections from a career as a trauma therapist. He will offer writing prompts to explore your relationship with grief, sorrow, gratitude, and joy and how listening to their calling helps us grow and heal. Time will be given for people to share what they wrote so we can experience a shift from the personal to the communal. Grief as a community offering, brings unexpected resources for setting down our burdens and healing opening our heart further.

Resources:

Presentation Slides
Handout
Group Sharing

Bio:
 

Jeffrey Morrison, MA, LMHC 
Certifying Focusing Coordinator
Founder and Executive Director, Seattle Focusing Institute

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist and Focusing Coordinator, Jeffrey Morrison practices on Vashon Island, Washington. He specializes in working with complex trauma and teaching Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) to therapists, other healing professionals and those on a healing journey. He has developed a Training Program, which blends Gendlin’s psychology and philosophy, mythology, spirituality, and other embodied practices for unwinding trauma and restoring wholeness.

Learn Focusing! Registration is open for the first year of his two year training program which begins in September. For more info visit Seattle Focusing Institute.

 

Please take this survey to help us understand your needs and how we can improve these classes.