2025
Flow with Grief Using Tai Chi – Hybrid Workshop – join in Denver or Online
Join in-person at HeartLight Center or online from anywhere as Beth Gherardi, certified practitioner, guides you through gentle flow and movements that can be used for gentle care of yourself and your body using Tai Chi methods. No prior experience required.
Cost: $35. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
date: Sat. April 12 time: 12:30-2pm (PT)/ 1:30-3pm (MST)/ 2:30-4pm (CT)/ 3:30-5pm (EST)
Comfort Food Dinner – New Mexico
Come to a cozy environment and leave the dishes and worries about cooking at home. We will serve comforting food and create a space for sharing experiences, meals, and beverages. This gathering is open to all adults (18+) who have experienced the loss of a loved one – regardless of the circumstances or relationship – or are navigating serious illness and anticipatory grief. While bringing a dish is not required or expected, you are welcome to contribute if it feeds your wellbeing. Through the act of sharing a meal, we aim to nourish both our bodies and hearts with mutual support. In partnership with Bosque Trails Hospice.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM at Bosque Trails Hospice
Forest Therapy Intervention 5 Session Group – Denver
For those experiencing personal bereavement within their first year, learn ways to improve quality of life during bereavement through forest therapy activities. Facilitated by Forest Therapy Practitioner, Susan Kaplan, MSW, MPA, RYT, participants will engage in activities to help reduce the impact on physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social states and promoting more healthy choices and well-being through connections with nature.
Cost $100, plus cost of admissions to the gardens.
(if cost is prohibitive, please reach out to discuss scholarship options)
Registration is required.
Dates: Sun. April 27, May 4, 11, 18 & 25
time: 2-4:00pm MST
location: Denver Botanic Gardens – York Street
Spring Remembrance Ceremony – Denver
Please join us at HeartLight Center for our spring memorial service to pay tribute to those we are remembering in a safe community of support. In partnership with Arapahoe Community College.
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
date: Sat. May 3, 2025 time: 10-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Crafting Your Narrative: Writing and Sharing Your Grief Story – Virtual
Join facilitators Stuart and Cierra in the exploration of narrative – how we choose to tell our grief story, in various settings, and how we can gain a sense of control, remembrance and create legacy through use of the written word.
Cost: $20. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Date: Sat. May 3 time: 9am-11amPT/10am-12pm MST/11am-1pm CT/12pm-2pm EST
Adults Grieving a Loss in Childhood Workshop – Denver
Death experiences in childhood are often foundational but aren’t always discussed in the home. Please join us for a time of remembrance, discussion, engaging in a creative project involving mask making, and sharing about the lifelong impacts of significant death losses in childhood. Cost: $35, includes materials for mask making activity.
Date: Sat. May 10 time: 10am-12pm MST location: HeartLight Center
Spring Remembrance and Creative Expression with BACII – Virtual
BACII creator, Mangda Sengvanhpheng, joins us for an experiential online workshop designed to holistically guide us through all forms of loss, grief, and the end-of-life with an art activity. The purpose of this workshop is to mindfully connect us to the cycles of life in order to renew and deepen our experience of being alive. Cost: $60. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Date: Tues. May 13 time: 3-5:00pm PT/ 4-6:00pm MST/ 5-7:00pm CT/ 6-8pm EST
Never Forgotten: A Space for Lifelong Grief
Quarterly Group – Denver
For those who are at least 5+ years out from a death loss of any special person in your life, join us in a quarterly, intentional space for remembrance, support and honoring how grief changes over time and how we still carry our grief. It’s different now, and we remember them always. Coffee and tea provided.
You are welcome to bring a special photo or object to share during group.
Date: Saturday, May 17 from 10-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Intro to TRE Workshop – Denver
This in-depth intro class covers Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®). These simple exercises can assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and the physical effects of trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating which has a calming effect on the nervous system. TRE is designed to be a self-help tool that once learned, can be used to promote resiliency and better autonomic nervous system regulation.
Date: Saturday May 31, 2025 from 10am-12pm at HeartLight Center Denver
Cost: $30
Open heART Studio – Denver
We invite you to share in a creative space to help explore and connect about grief through art. HeartLight Center will provide supplies that you can use to create either an instructed activity, or something of your own. You are welcome to bring any art supplies, images, relics or materials that you would like to work with. No past art experience required.
Featured Activity: Gardening with Grief – using Kintsugi to help process grief and design a planter to plant seeds.
In the creation of this Kintsugi planter and gardening experience, you will build a piece as a symbol of the journey you are on while also sharing in meaningful discussions with fellow grievers.
Date: Saturday, June 7th from 9am-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Cost: $40
Remembering Beloved Friends: A Memorial to Honor Friendship – Denver
In honor of National Best Friends Day, this dedicated time provides a safe place for individuals who are grieving the death of a friend through a meaningful remembrance ceremony to bring comfort and connection to the friends we are missing.
Date: Sun. June 8
time: 4-6:00pm MST
location: Horan & McConaty Colorado Blvd.
Suggested Donation: $20, for materials and light refreshments.
Tending to Your Grief: One-Day Grief Retreat – Denver
Join us for a one-day grief retreat, in partnership with Christian Living Communities, on Thursday, June 12th from 10am-4pm. Doors open at 9am where you will find coffee/tea and live music with structured programs starting at 10am. There will be time to talk and share, listen and learn, and explore grief through experiential activities in a supportive environment. Lunch is included.
Breakout workshops will include Gentle Tai Chi, Mindfulness Walk, Art, Writing Your Grief, and more!
Date: Thursday, June 12th from 10am-4pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver CO 80014)
Cost: $100 (if cost is prohibitive, please reach out to discuss scholarship options)
