p$ychedelics & liberation: integrating grief
announcing the next workshop in our p$ychedelics & liberation series, processing grief. @queering_existentialism is excited to collab with @yourmorbidfriends to bring this event to @alchemiastudionyc
In this workshop we will:
🌈reflect on the intersections of p$ychedelics and emotion, and how the integration of the two can support individual and collective liberation
🌈define, explore & process sacred grief through journal prompts, ritual design & discussion
🌈participate in a death meditation, a Buddhist practice that encourages mindfulness of the inevitable nature of mortality, aiming to foster a deeper appreciation for life and reduce attachment to impermanent things, led by Robin of @yourmorbidfriends
Things to bring:
📝 Journal
💧 Water
🪶Altar object (anything small to add to the collective altar– will be returned to you at the end of the event– ex. Photograph, trinket, jewelry, feathers or other objects from nature)
Tickets are $20! Please reach out if cost is a barrier🫶🏽 VENMO TO CONFIRM YOUR SPOT @synergina13
Robin Silver, MA, is one half of Your Morbid Friends, a death and grief literacy company. She has an MA in Ecopsychology and mindfulness instructor certification from Naropa University, where she also took courses on Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. She has also undertaken an eclectic breadth of trainings and retreats around the US, Mexico, and Asia. Robin’s work comes from the belief that we must tend to our psychological, emotional, spiritual, and ecological bodies as much as our physical body.
Gina Mostafa, MPH, is the founder of Queering Existentialism is an education and connection initiative based in NYC that co-creates containers for the practical and accessible exchange of liberating ideas, with the ultimate goal of cultivating communal secure attachment. Their events focus on healing-centered harm reduction, non-violent communication, restorative justice, psychedelics, releasing imposter syndrome around creativity, and other related topics.