Tending Grief Through Song & Art

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There is so much to grieve in these extraordinarily challenging times. How can our voices and hands kindle our connection to the grief held in our bodies and souls? What transformation opens to us as we move within our grief?

Rev. Rhetta will begin our Grief and Art offering with a Tending Grief Song Circle. To give your grief a voice is to tend your heart and the heart of community. One of the benefits of grieving together is to be reminded that we are not alone.

Our community circle will be a place for whatever is on your heart and mind to express, be it the grief associated with aging, personal loss, political conflict and turmoil, or any other hardship you’re carrying.

During the Tending Grief Song Circle, Lucas will interweave small, expressive drawing exercises. Through creative activities such as “outlining our hearts,” we will explore the shape and contours of our grief. Finally, to close the Tending Grief Song Circle, Lucas will offer a sculpture practice to hold our grief.

Come, be present and vulnerable. Express all that you are. Listen and be listened to. Be heard and held as we sing, create, and hold each other in the Light.

This space is open to all levels of musical and artistic ability.

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Leaders

Rev. Rhetta Morgan is a singing healer, spiritual activist, and interfaith minister who has been gathering tools for healing and inspiration for over 40 years. Through her gifts of prayer, poetry, facilitation, and sermonizing, she cultivates hope and nurtures connection in her community as a pathway back to belonging and wholeness. As a facilitator and coach, Rhetta is known for her ability to support others to be bold, heal their self-limiting beliefs, and integrate their internal healing with their social movement work. This support is essential to cultivate the powerful spiritual activism that is needed in these times.

Lucas Meyer-Lee (he/they) is a current Quaker Voluntary Service fellow, working in this capacity as the Education Associate at Pendle Hill. They are a recent graduate of Swarthmore College, where they studied across a wide range of arts and humanities. Lucas has been guided by a lifelong love for visual and literary arts in particular, leading them toward extended engagements with poetry, printmaking, painting, sculpture, graphic design, and boardgame design. In the coming years, they hope to continue their higher education, researching Arabic comparative literature at the graduate level.

Lucas currently serves on the American Friend Service Committee’s Community, Equity, and Justice Board Committee and as the co-coordinator for Friends General Conference’s Adult Young Friend community.

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