Grief

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQWM2j3AVg Griefwalker is a lyrical poetic portrait of the work of Stephen Jenkinson who is the author of Die Wise, the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Ontario, and who for five years headed the counselling team Canada's largest home-based palliative care facility. Griefwalker is a national film board of Canada feature documentary filmed over 12 years by director Tim Wilson. Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families, and meditative and often frank exchanges with the film's director while paddling a birchbark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die. A few of the themes appearing in the film: Where does our culture’s death phobia come from? Is there such a thing as good dying? How is it that grief could be a skill instead of an affliction? Who are the dead to us? How can seeing your life’s end be the beginning of your deep love of being alive? Film screening followed by questions/discussion Time – doors open at 19.00 refreshments available, film is 70 minutes long and we will start at 19.30. Time for […]