Grief Tending

Grief Tending: A Compassionate Listening Integration Workshop

Facilitated by Maureen St. Clair

Three Tuesdays, October 6, 13, & 20, 2026

3:30-5:30 PDT | 6:30-8:30 EDT

A workshop for those wanting to tend personal and collective grief through embodied compassionate listening, a pathway to reclaiming grief as our human birthright and to deepening what is ours to do in this excruciating and exquisite world, in service of the liberation of All.

This workshop is grounded in:

• Compassionate Listening- We will explore and deepen our skills, tools and practices in the art of listening; listening to ourselves (bodies, minds, hearts) and to one another. Compassionate listening will be our gateway to building safe and brave enough spaces to explore personal and collective grief as well as explore personal and social change through unearthing vision and purpose.

• Tending Grief- We will deepen our understanding of grief while reclaiming our right to grieve personally and collectively; whether grieving for climate related disasters, genocides, war, and/or struggles within our own communities, families, friends, and within ourselves. We will deepen our capacity to share our collective sorrows as a means of moving, supporting, resisting, and finding joy in these uncertain times. We will find our togetherness in the dark and light.

Cost:

$195- Standard Ticket (This ticket covers your participation in the workshop and helps sustain our programs.)

$225 - Community Builder Ticket (This ticket includes your participation while also contributing to our scholarship fund and the growth of Compassionate Listening.)

The cost for this workshop series is tiered according to a pay-as-you-are-able structure. This enables us to offer workshops in a financially sustainable way while creating accessibility for those without financial means to attend, as well as opportunities for generosity for those who would like to support others' attendance.

We are committed to accessibility and sincerely wish for all who wish to attend our workshops to be able to do so, regardless of financial means. If the ticket price is not affordable for you, please submit a scholarship request. We sincerely want everyone who wishes to attend to have the opportunity.

Our scholarship program is made possible by generous contributions from our community. If you have the means, please consider choosing the Community Builder ticket or making an additional donation to support others in attending.

If you have any questions, please contact us at staff@compassionatelistening.org.

Event Details

This session will be held on Zoom. It is experiential and requires your full presence, participation, and a commitment to show up fully with your video and without distraction. In order to make the most of your experience and support others' learning and engagement, please:

• Plan to arrive in a quiet distraction-free environment, fully present and available to experience the workshop.

• Connect to the event using a device that has full video and audio capability.

If you require any accommodations to attend, including physical limitations around viewing screens or having your video on, please contact us before the first session so that we can plan accordingly and/or match you with a workshop that meets your needs.

After registration and payment, you will receive a registration confirmation and welcome email. Please add us (staff@compassionatelistening.org) to your safe senders list to ensure that you receive all course access information.

If you have any questions, please contact us at staff@compassionatelistening.org.

Looking forward to meeting you in the circle!

Facilitator

Maureen St. Clair is a conflict coach, facilitator, and trainer with over 20 years of experience co-creating brave enough spaces for people to authentically grapple and reckon with conflict as a pathway to vision, purpose, action, and change.  Maureen is a board-certified psychosynthesis coach, serving as an embodied conflict coach in the areas of life transitions, anti-racism, and relationship building.

Maureen worked at the Coady International Institute facilitating programs with community leaders throughout the world for over 15 years, and is the co-founder of The Grenada Listening Project and The People’s Listening Project. She holds space individually and collectively with groups and people struggling with cultural, gender, class, and racial differences within their friendships, intimate partners, family members, and work colleagues. 

Maureen also works with folks moving through life transitions and those longing to find what is theirs to do in a traumatized, unjust world. As an artist herself, Maureen also has a keen interest in supporting artists laboring to move their projects/ideas/dreams forward. 

Maureen carries a deep-rootedness in transformative learning and community practice. She believes in the creative force of nonviolent conflict for personal and social change and the critical importance of honoring our lived experience. Maureen invites individuals to reflect on and work towards transforming relationships at personal, interpersonal, and systemic levels with a focus on compassionate communication, transformative conflict analysis skills and tools, and the creative arts. Her expertise supports inner work for healthy relationships as a means of empowering the outer work of growing justice through impacting systems and structures.