2025
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
Healing With Horses – Lyons, CO
Date options: Sat. June 7, July 19 & Aug 23 time: 10am-4pm location: Lyons, Colorado
Join a one-day workshop to let the healing power of horses help you as we slow down, reflect, and have some fun together. Come with an open mind and heart and discover what the horses have for you at this stage of your grief journey. In partnership with Dancing Spirit Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching, LLC and TRU Community Care.
Cost: $100. Registration is required on the TRU website.
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.
Grief Support After a Homicide Loss: Quarterly Gathering – Virtual
Join us in a quarterly meeting space to share about the unique grief experiences that occur after a homicide loss. We will come together in an intentional space for remembrance, support and honoring the lives of those we are grieving for, and how the nature of homicide loss impacts our grief.
Upcoming meeting: Tues. June 10th
time: 3-4:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm MST/ 5-6:30pm CT/ 6-7:30pm EST
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)
Summer Remembrance for Alzheimer’s & Dementia Loss – Virtual
June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, and we invite you to join us for a special virtual gathering for those who are grieving losses to Alzheimer’s and other dementias to help process your grief and memorialize your person. Anyone who has experienced a loss to Alzheimer’s or other dementias, we welcome you to join us for a time of discussion, sharing and memory making, and engaging in an intimate ceremony of remembrance.
Suggested Donation: $20 Registration is required.
upcoming dates: Wed. June 25 time: 3-4:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm MST/ 5-6:30pm CT/ 6-7:30pm EST
Goal Setting in the New Year: A Mid-Year Check-in – Virtual
A follow-up from the “Goal Setting in the New Year” workshop, this virtual workshop is a way to check-in together and get some support and intentionally look at our goals including self-care needs. Another relatively new way to look at goal setting is with the concept of “Tiny Experiments” which we will also bring in for this year’s discussion. We will discuss progress and self-compassion, coping strategies and self-care needs, and check-in with ourselves, our goals and each other. Suggested Donation: $20. Registration is required.
Sat. July 19th at 8:30am PT /9:30am MST /10:30am CT /11:30am ET Virtually On Zoom
Tai Chi for the Grieving Heart 2-part workshop – Hybrid
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 in a 2-part series to help begin a foundational practice of using Qigong to tend to your grief and self-care. No prior experience required, program is inclusive to all mobility needs. Cost: $60. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Location: Join at HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave) or from anywhere on Zoom
Date: Tues. July 22 & 29
time: 3-5pm (PT)/ 4-6pm (MST)/ 5-7pm (CT)/ 6-8pm (EST)
The Anger of Grief: A Somatic Workshop – Denver
Anger is a “stage” of grief that doesn’t often get talked about, yet is an emotion everyone feels. There is a wide variety of ways that anger, irritability and frustration arise in grief. Join us in a space dedicated to discussing and processing anger and learn tools for safely experiencing and working through this complex emotion as normal part of the grief journey. Cost: $35. Registration required.
Date: Fri. July 25
time: 10-12:00pm MST
location: HeartLight Center – Parker Rd
