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General News · 10th April 2026
Dancing Wolf
Grief As Medicine • Song As Vessel
A one-day experiential workshop offering a confidential space for participants to explore their own personal or collective grief in a supportive community setting.
Through a blend of guided experiential exercises, singing, small group work and community talking circles, participants are invited to engage at their own pace—everything is entirely voluntary.
Throughout the day, songs will be gently woven into the process, led by facilitators connected to the lineage of Laurence Cole and other experienced Song Carriers. The singing serves both to support the unfolding of grief and to celebrate the vitality of being alive.
The workshop includes three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, with time for breaks, outdoor reflection, and a shared lunch.
Participants will also be introduced to the Six Gates of Grief as a framework for understanding the many expressions of grief.
This workshop is open to everyone—no prior experience is needed.
The Workshop will be held at the Lakeview Room at Linnea Farm on Sat. May 2 from 10:00- 5:00. A nourishing lunch will be provided.
The space will be held by Bianca Lee, Donna Dryer, Dancing Wolf and Isabelle Laplante
Registration by April 24: Cost is $50.
Please contact Dancing Wolf for any questions, or for E-Transfer, at: 1hearttelus.net
If you are still curious, here is some information that may assist you in deciding if this work could be helpful.
Grief is not something we think our way through—it is something the body must move. Grief lives in the body as much as in the heart.
It gathers in the chest, catches in the throat, quiets the breath, and waits—often patiently, sometimes urgently—for a pathway through. When we cry or sing, we offer that pathway.
Through the shaping of breath and tone, the body begins to soften its holding.
Something shifts: what was frozen begins to move, what was constricted begins to open. Grief is no longer held alone in silence, but carried on sound—metabolized through vibration, breath, and presence.
The way we gather to Grieve matters.
In a culture that so often turns emotion into spectacle—flattened, displayed, and consumed— we return to older forms: the Circle, the talking stick, the practice of witnessing.
Here, each voice is given its time, its dignity, its place. No one interrupts. No one fixes. No one performs. Instead, we listen with presence, receiving what is spoken as something sacred. In this kind of field, the outer expression begins to align with the inner truth. This is congruence—not as an idea, but as a lived experience of being met, just as we are.
As grief is spoken, sung, and witnessed, it begins to make sense within the larger arc of a life. What once felt chaotic or overwhelming becomes more comprehensible, held within a shared human field.
This is the emergence of coherence—a quiet knowing that even in sorrow, life remains intelligible, workable, and deeply meaningful.
To sing our grief in community is to remember that we are not alone in our sorrow, nor in our healing.
It is to trust that the body knows how to move what has been held, that the voice can carry what words alone cannot, and that in being witnessed we return, again and again, to belonging.
A one-day experiential workshop offering a confidential space for participants to explore their own personal or collective grief in a supportive community setting.
Through a blend of guided experiential exercises, singing, small group work and community talking circles, participants are invited to engage at their own pace—everything is entirely voluntary.
Throughout the day, songs will be gently woven into the process, led by facilitators connected to the lineage of Laurence Cole and other experienced Song Carriers. The singing serves both to support the unfolding of grief and to celebrate the vitality of being alive.
The workshop includes three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, with time for breaks, outdoor reflection, and a shared lunch.
Participants will also be introduced to the Six Gates of Grief as a framework for understanding the many expressions of grief.
This workshop is open to everyone—no prior experience is needed.
The Workshop will be held at the Lakeview Room at Linnea Farm on Sat. May 2 from 10:00- 5:00. A nourishing lunch will be provided.
The space will be held by Bianca Lee, Donna Dryer, Dancing Wolf and Isabelle Laplante
Registration by April 24: Cost is $50.
Please contact Dancing Wolf for any questions, or for E-Transfer, at: 1hearttelus.net
If you are still curious, here is some information that may assist you in deciding if this work could be helpful.
Grief is not something we think our way through—it is something the body must move. Grief lives in the body as much as in the heart.
It gathers in the chest, catches in the throat, quiets the breath, and waits—often patiently, sometimes urgently—for a pathway through. When we cry or sing, we offer that pathway.
Through the shaping of breath and tone, the body begins to soften its holding.
Something shifts: what was frozen begins to move, what was constricted begins to open. Grief is no longer held alone in silence, but carried on sound—metabolized through vibration, breath, and presence.
The way we gather to Grieve matters.
In a culture that so often turns emotion into spectacle—flattened, displayed, and consumed— we return to older forms: the Circle, the talking stick, the practice of witnessing.
Here, each voice is given its time, its dignity, its place. No one interrupts. No one fixes. No one performs. Instead, we listen with presence, receiving what is spoken as something sacred. In this kind of field, the outer expression begins to align with the inner truth. This is congruence—not as an idea, but as a lived experience of being met, just as we are.
As grief is spoken, sung, and witnessed, it begins to make sense within the larger arc of a life. What once felt chaotic or overwhelming becomes more comprehensible, held within a shared human field.
This is the emergence of coherence—a quiet knowing that even in sorrow, life remains intelligible, workable, and deeply meaningful.
To sing our grief in community is to remember that we are not alone in our sorrow, nor in our healing.
It is to trust that the body knows how to move what has been held, that the voice can carry what words alone cannot, and that in being witnessed we return, again and again, to belonging.