Community Grief Ritual Facilitator Training:
February 14 – 17, 2025 Big Island, Hawai’i
This training is dedicated to graduating competent, confident, compassionate group facilitators, who desire to offer the Dagara-style Community Grief Rituals in their communities, in heart-centered service.
If you feel a calling to facilitate or even assist a Community Grief Ritual, I would like to offer you an opportunity to develop your skill-base in our growing community of facilitators on the beautiful island of Hawai’i.
I have offered the full Facilitator Training three times now, once in Israel, once in California and the most recent was last year in Hawaii.
At the heart of the training is an…
- Exploration of one’s calling to the work
- Exploration of one’s own grief
- Exploration of one’s fears and expectations around leadership
- as well as, Development of leadership skills, individual and as a team
WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE IN THIS 4-DAY TRAINING:
- We will explore and discuss the nature and energetics of Grief from the lenses of Ecopsychology, Somatic Wisdom, and Emotional Intelligence.
- We will work with the earth-based ritual template given to us by Malidoma and Sobonfu Some, which most of us understand as Community Grief Ritual.
- On Day 2, students will experience a Community Grief Ritual as a participant.
- On Day 3, we will dive into facilitation skill and leadership ethics
- On Day 4, we will break down production and promotion aspects
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DETAILS FOR THE FOUNDATIONS COURSE:
Tuition: BY DONATION. Please consider that the trainers are offering this from their hearts, yet will have travel expenses themselves. Please give as generously as you are able.
Location: A beautiful retreat space in Pahoa, East-side Big Island of Hawai’i
Friday, Feb 14 2:00PM – 7:00PM – Training Orientation
Saturday, Feb 15 10:00AM – 6:00PM – Community Grief Ritual
Sunday, Feb 16 9:00AM – 6:00PM – Training
Monday, Feb 17 9:00AM – 3:00PM – Training
REQUIREMENTS
- Everyone interested in attending must fill out an application and submit it no later than 2 weeks before the training begins.
- This training in on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Students are responsible for arriving to every day On-Time and staying through to the end each day.
- Students are responsible for providing their own beverages, snacks and lunches.
HOW DO I ENROLL IN THE COURSE?
Send Maria an email using the contact page here on the website. You will receive an application for enrollment via the email you provide in the contact form.
The exact location for the training will be given upon registration.
Maria Christina Owl is an international transformational leader, healer and full-body channel. She has worked with over 18 different indigenous elders around the world, and is deeply rooted in her own indigenous identity. Maria credits her healing from post-traumatic stress to earth-based ritual work, which she discovered at age 19. She has held hundreds of people around the world through deep transformation through wilderness quests, grief rituals, women’s initiation, and many other forms of ritual and ceremony.
Maria began training in Community Grief Work in 1999, focusing her bachelor’s degree on community healing through the Work That Reconnects, the modality developed by Joanna Macy. In 2005 she participated in a 10-month Dagara-style women’s initiation process, later she participated in a Village experience with Sobonfu Some, and participated in many grief rituals with Sobonfu after that.
Maria has offered Community Grief Rituals in the Dagara style for over 15 years, while also training facilitators to carry on the work in Tel Aviv, Israel, the Big Island, Hawaii and California.
Maria holds a Master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on ecopsychology and trauma, and has taught Indigenous Wisdom at many institutions of higher learning, including Naropa and Dominican Universities. In 2012 she founded Sacred Future, a school devoted to re-integrating human culture back into harmony with Nature and Cosmos through the development of intuitive, authentic leadership.
Download Maria’s E-Book for Free!
MOVING BEYOND VICTIM CONSCIOUSNESS
Beginning in the womb Maria was subjected to violence from an abusive father. Shamed and perpetrated while also being smothered with grasping to be his savior, Maria navigated the complex psychology of Narcissism, Sociopathy, Psychopathy and Borderline Personality, coupled with alcoholism. The degree of alienation, loneliness and fear became hardwired into her physiology. Yet, today, Maria thrives! She found her way through the chaos and created a life of harmony doing her Soul work.
Self-love, faith in a greater power, forgiveness, and service to others is what Maria calls the bedrock for healing the wounded inner-child. This eBook was written by Maria to shine the light on the inner-archetypes at play within trauma. She believes that with understanding, comes compassion, and from compassion comes freedom from the Trauma Triangle.
If you are struggling with reverberations from a traumatic experience, this may shed some light for you to find your way beyond feeling powerless.
