Grief as a doorway to wholeness: A guided workshop

Most of us carry more grief than we realize — grief from our families, our childhoods, our relationships, our migrations, our losses, and from living through a time of global uncertainty. It might show up as anger, sadness, numbness, apathy and more.
But we’re rarely given a safe space to feel it, understand it, or let it move through us.

​This guided workshop is an invitation to gently meet the grief you carry and let it transform you.

​We live in a culture that wants grief to be linear, private, and short-lived. Our collective inability to face grief is one of the hidden engines of the numerous crises we see around us- climate change, war & more. When we don’t metabolise grief, we become fractured and angry, numb to the deeper pain driving us. We chase power, status, distractions — anything not to feel the pain. And those patterns ripple outward into the systems we build.

​This workshop rejects those patterns. By giving people tools rather than prescriptions, we help them cultivate resilience, depth, and the ability to rejoin life fully — not because the loss has vanished, but because grief and vitality can share the same home.

​The workshop is led by Inara Furnari O Mara, a counselor, grief worker and death doula. Inara has more than a decade of experience helping people meet grief and mortality with dignity and peace. It might sound morbid, but it’s the opposite; it’s profoundly life-giving. This session will help you understand how grief lives in the body, how to work with it safely, and how metabolising grief can open the door to clarity, resilience, and a deeper sense of wholeness.

​Your co-host for the evening will be Akhil Puri, an ex-climate tech entrepreneur who now runs a think tank dedicated to addressing the Metacrisis and usher in planetary flourishing.

​This is not intended to be a heavy or overwhelming session. This will be a warm, grounded, trauma-informed space where you can move at your own pace.

​As the year comes to a close, we hope you’ll join us in letting go of what no longer serves you. These times call for great transformation. What better way to bring in a new year and begin that process with ourselves?

​In This Workshop, You Will Explore:

• ​What grief actually is (and the many forms it takes)
  
• ​How grief accumulates and expresses itself in our lives
  
• ​Techniques for feeling grief safely without being overwhelmed
  
• ​Practices to release the emotional weight you’ve been carrying
  
• ​How grief, when processed, becomes strength and clarity

​The session will be a mixture of theory, live practice, and community sharing.

​Who This Is For

​Anyone who feels they are carrying emotional heaviness — recent or old.

​Anyone going through a transition.

​Anyone feeling overwhelmed by the world.

​Anyone longing for relief, honesty, and a deeper relationship with themselves.

​No prior experience with grief work is needed. This session is meant to meet you wherever you may be in your journey.