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Restoring compassion, forgiveness and loving kindness in the process of grief in our culture.
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Voices of Grief is a component fund of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Kathy Sparnins, Voices of Grief Co-producer, being presented with a $3889 check...
Kathy Sparnins, Voices of Grief Co-producer, being presented with a $3889 check from Tweed's "Sounds of the Season" Holiday Home Tour-Woodland Park Chairperson, Karolyn Smith. Thanks to all the supporters and volunteers for making the home tour so successful. The VOG Board decided that upon completion, the film will be donated to hospice bereavement education services nationally – this has the potential of reaching 2 million people in that setting alone! Next step with the film is preparing another iteration of the assembly cut for “alpha focus group” review at the end of March.
Some wonderful press relating the message from Voices of Grief’s film in progres...
Some wonderful press relating the message from Voices of Grief’s film in progress to a broader recognition that we live in community and need to be in connection.
Silver Tsunami coming soon - Colorado Community Media
pikespeakcourier.net
Editor’s note: A report released in January highlights the upcoming range of needs for the senior population, which is charted to increase in the Pikes Peak Region by 179 percent. In the next few …Some well-stated learnings
Some well-stated learnings
A New Normal: Ten Things I've Learned About Trauma
sojo.net
Trauma upends everything we took for granted, including things we didn’t know we took for granted. And many of these realities I wish I’d known when I first encountered them. So, while the work of life and healing continues, here are ten things I’ve learned about trauma along the way.
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Voices of Grief: Love Stories – Behind the Scenes (2:30)
A special message shared at our June Benefit Fundraiser.
Voices of Grief: Love Stories – A First Look (5:30)
Project Origins
Voices of Grief explores the discouragement in our culture for the normal grief and mourning process while at the same time offering a new perspective on how to honor, transform and integrate our grief.
The film is based on the interplay of teachings from contemporary authors, poets, and spiritual teachers coupled with the stories of our group participants as we companion one another in our group support work. Rabbi Harold Kushner, Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Dr. Kenneth Doka, and Thomas Lynch are currently being interviewed for this project.
Upon completion, the film will be distributed to training facilities, hospice, hospitals, funeral homes, pastoral counseling centers, churches and ultimately Public Broadcasting. Our purpose is educational in nature and it is our great desire to make this tool available to all who might have a need.
As a grief educator for a non-profit pastoral counseling center in Colorado Springs, I witness and companion the pain of people in my educational support groups who apologize for crying as they tell me the story of the love of their life. This film offers the possibility of reaching and inspiring a larger audience and will offer the possibility of a more heart and soul based reconciliation of grief.
Voices of Grief is a component fund of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donate On-line.
Kathy Sparnins
Executive Director and Co-Producer
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