Grief Studies
Next Session Begins: July 12th to August 30th
Ah yes, tis the time for grief work again…
But does grief work really ever end? In times of genocide, when does grief ever subside?
If you’ve read Who Is Wellness For? you might know my work of alchemy, and this class is exactly that. I write about it in the book: making shit into gold, turning trauma into magic requires an incredible amount of resolve, and that’s why I merge <grief work> with <decolonization work>
I think this is what makes the work more meaningful and long-lasting. When we can hold our individual grief with our collective grief, when we can grasp both the macro and the micro, then we have a more profound ability to shift, to heal.
There is honor in this work and I’m immensely grateful to be teaching this again. If you do not know what to do with your grief, with the immensity of how you feel, I understand, please join me.
More information:
{There is limited space available}
When is the class: We will meet for 8 weeks every Sunday from July 12th to August 30th
From: 12 pm - 3 pm EST/ 5 - 8 pm GMT
Where: Over Zoom (I’ll send a link)
Will this be recorded? Yes.
What will we do each class? We will read poems by Sarona Abuaker, Arcelis Girmay, and Billy-Ray Belcourt each week, dissecting the grief and decolonization stages; we will write and read. We will share our feelings together.
How much is it?
It’s $650 for the 8 weeks
There’s a sliding-scale rate of $500 for Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian/Lebanese folks, as well as working-class and disabled folks, and CSA survivors. I know I also have a lot of readers in the Global South. If you ever want to take a class, please reach out, and I will try to figure something out.
There are a few partial scholarships
There are 5 full scholarship spaces. If interested, please let me know why you want to take this class & why you’d like/need a scholarship.
I also create a specific payment plan to meet your needs
The workshops I teach are a place of care and radicality ~
I prioritize the voices that are silenced in this everyday white supremacist, Zionist, ableist, anti-Black, Islamophobic, anti-Arab/Palestinian, anti Semitic, transphobic, queerphobic world and so these workshops are an attempt to create a space where we can acknowledge that these systems of oppression exist, and understand that it’s our responsibility to unlearn these things, especially when (and while) we are in community. If you are a privileged-bodied person, please move with that understanding in this space. Humility is required here.
I don’t tolerate harmful language; at the same time, I endeavor to create a space of accountability and witnessing. This is hard work; grief work requires ego work. If you are willing to do this work and are hungry to be in space with others who want to do this work, please reach out. It will test you, it might even push at certain limitations and boundaries… grief work is very uncomfortable work, but it is some of the most significant work you can do right now…
If all this sounds interesting and you feel ready, here’s where you apply.
Grief is the way towards transformation, towards liberation ~
sending love, Fariha