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EMERGING HEART
3-Month Group Grief Tending Journey
Starting 23 March 2025
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Online Circle Journey
We have just started Emerging Heart.
Please join our waiting list for a future opportunity to participate in one of our grief circle journeys.
Emerging Heart invites you to navigate the complex landscape of grief and loss in a compassionate space, where you can honour the depth of your experiences while nurturing the potential for growth and renewal.
Throughout this transfomative group grief tending journey, you will explore the nuances of your grief, and share your stories and emotions in an intimate and supportive community that is rooted in acceptance and empathy.
Whether you're grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a life transition, or even unspoken dreams, this programme offers a supportive path towards healing.
Together, we will engage in shared reflection, grief tending rituals, and healing practices that encourage remembrance, release, resilience and renewal. Helping to uncover new ways you can tenderly carry your loss and connect with the wisdoms that grief can reveal.
Emerging Heart embraces the journey of grief, honouring your loss while gently cultivating hope and possibilities for the future that lies ahead, as you find the strength that comes from tending to your grief with vulnerability and courage.
Join this journey of healing and transformation, where your beautiful heart can emerge anew.
The Programme
Discovery Call
If you are considering joining Emerging Heart you are encouraged to navigate to The Calling section below to read more about the programme first. Then book in a 20-minute Discovery Call with Sophie to ask your questions about the programme as you explore whether Emerging Heart is right for you. Use the Book Discovery Call button in The Calling section to book this at a time of your convenience.
FOUNDATIONAL 1:1 SESSION
Once you are enrolled on Emerging Heart you will have a 50-minute Foundational 1:1 Session with Sophie to explore where you are currently in your grief journey in more depth, to explore more about what you aim to achieve through participating in this programme, and how she can best support you over the 3-month experience. This session will also include a 1:1 guided meditation.
Grief circles
Eight grief circles are at the core of this group grief tending programme, offering a brave space for sharing your stories. In circle we sit side-by-side with the intention of removing hierarchy and creating unity, providing a gentle yet empowering place where we can explore our grief without haste. Circle is a soft and kind space that feels emotionally nourishing, where we can be gently held in our vulnerability. We do not offer advice or guidance in circle, we simply listen without the intent to reply; allowing those sharing to feel deeply heard as they connect to their own wisdoms, guiding them through their grief with tenderness and knowing.
GROUP MEDITATION
There are six exclusive guided meditations for the participants of Emerging Heart during this journey we will be travelling together. Grief often makes us feel disconnected from self and meditation and other embodiment practices offer a gentle path to navigate our way back to our heart and body. These sessions will start with a re-connection of the group before we begin the practice, and by quieting the outside world we can focus our attention inwards to where our deeper knowing resides. Suitable for those newer to meditation as well as those with more experience, all you need is a quiet and comfortable spot to sit and connect with self.
ANCHORING grief rituals
Anchoring grief rituals ground us in the present moment while honouring the significance of our loss. These rituals provide a sense of stability, connection, and continuity throughout the healing process. Each ritual is designed to gently acknowledge the presence of grief, giving it a space to be seen, expressed, and understood. Our anchoring grief rituals honour the wisdom, strength, and resilience that come from tending to grief in a mindful and compassionate way. and lead us into our circle gatherings with intention and awareness.
Hypnotherapy | Deep meditation
During the Emerging Heart journey you will be offered a private hypnotherapy session for helping you to navigate your grief and loss. This 75-minute session, which will be tailored to your specific grief experience, whether this is to help your sleep, to say goodbye to your loved one, or to rebuild your confidence after a loss. Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic practice for facilitating behavioural and emotional change. For some people, hypnotherapy may be contraindicated or not something you wish to undergo, so a 1:1 deep guided meditation is provided as a alternative.
journaling prompts
Over the Emerging Heart journey you will be provided with journaling prompts that help you to enquire deeply into your true self, with kindness and curiosity. Light a candle, take a notepad and pen, connect with the prompt, and then spend some time letting your thoughts flow. When we don't focus too much on editing our writing in the moment, our inner thoughts can be revealed. Let your thoughts flow freely, and tenderly catch them on paper as they fall.
CONNECTION & COMMUNITY
Throughout the Emerging Heart journey you will receive text and/or email support from Sophie, offering regular connection throughout this experience, and an invitation to join in digital connection with the others in the programme, encouraging a deeper experience overall.
Those who attend Emerging Heart will be offered a discounted invited to join an in-person gathering within 12-months of completing the programme.
Although participating in Emerging Heart may feel deeply nurturing and therapeutic, please be mindful that this programme is not therapy,
Emerging Heart is a group grief coaching programme with one optional therapeutic hypnotherapy session.
Grief is in two parts The first is loss the second is remaking of life
Anne Roiphe
The Experience
Emerging Heart, is an intimate journey for up to 8 people only, where we honour the timeless traditions of grief tending, creating a brave, compassionate, and nurturing space to lean into grief and care for the full spectrum of feelings and experiences grief and loss reveal.
At the heart of this journey is our grief circle, a non-hierarchical space where we share our grief through storytelling, where each person can speak freely and uninterrupted, without judgement or the offer of advice. This sacred act of deep listening enables you to feel truly seen and heard while finding your voice and connecting with your story at a pace that honours your unique grief journey. The sacred practice of circle fosters a profound sense of community, gently holding us in our vulnerability while allowing us to be witnessed and supported.
On this journey we weave together circle, guided meditation, journaling prompts, deep meditation or hypnotherapy, and anchoring grief rituals to offer a space of reflection, healing, and connection. Our guided meditations invite you to turn inward, inviting a return to the quiet, intuitive, rising wisdom we each hold. Our meditations help to ground you into your body to help stabilise you after the disorienting effect of grief. Journaling prompts and anchoring grief rituals encourage meaningful reflection, self-compassion, and remembrance, supporting deep insights and tender transformation.
Through this journey, each participant joins a compassionate Emerging Heart community. Together, we rediscover resilience, tenderly nurture our grief, and emerge with a renewed sense of connection, inner peace, and hope.
THE PILLARS
REMEMBRANCE
REMEMBRANCE
REMEMBRANCE
Honouring and cherishing your memories and experiences, the Remembrance pillar invites reflection on what has been lost, fostering deep connection within a compassionate space that holds your feelings, stories, and experiences with love and understanding.
RELEASE
REMEMBRANCE
REMEMBRANCE
Going deeper into our grief tending journey by exploring and releasing the shadow emotions of frustration, anger, and guilt, Our pillar of Release encourages emotional expression, offering tools to process and unburden grief in ways that are safe, empowering, and healing for the soul.
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
Building inner strength and finding capacity to cope, our Resilience pillar supports you in discovering ways to navigate the challenges you are experiencing, cultivates self-compassion, and embraces the ongoing process of growth through adversity.
RENEWAL
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
Embracing the hope of new beginnings, our Renewal pillar fosters hope, inviting you to explore transformation, rediscover joy, and integrate the lessons of your journey to find meaning and light in life again to slowly reveal your Emerging Heart.
The Calling
Emerging Heart might be calling you if you...
It might not be the right time for you to join Emerging Heart if you...
You might like to reflect on how it will feel when you...
have experienced loss or significant life events and feel overwhelmed, whether this is new or longstanding.
have experienced loss or life events that you feel unsure how to navigate, but recognise that you do not need to do this alone.
are struggling with the emotions that have risen in you as a result of grief and loss.
you are experiencing the anticipatory grief of losing a loved one.
are in a transitional point in your life and are facing a complexity of emotions as you navigate change.
feel isolated from your community but know at core that some support at this time will be helpful for you.
feel lost, lonely, disconnected, and overwhelmed, like grief is making you lose touch with your true yourself.
are experiencing emotions like anger, hatred, frustration, guilt, and need a brave container where you can share them without judgement.
are openhearted and willing to welcome a tender self-exploration as you travel into, through, and beyond your grief.
You might like to reflect on how it will feel when you...
It might not be the right time for you to join Emerging Heart if you...
You might like to reflect on how it will feel when you...
learn ways to recognise the impact of your loss without judgement or guilt, gradually leaning into your grief with tenderness.
find opportunities to connect with yourself and those you are grieving, by carving out smalls windows to reflect and meditate.
can purposefully embrace the soft flow of life with all its ups and downs, losses and sorrow.
can soften into meaningful rest with gratitude for the release and rejuvenation it brings you.
can trust your rising wisdom, knowing that anchoring to yourself is a way to help find your emerging heart.
are able to lean into community, feeling gently held whilst holding agency over your own journey and decisions.
connect with your intuition, hearing your inner guide and trusting yourself in all you do so that you can navigate grief with softness.
speak from the heart, learning that to be vulnerable is to be brave, giving voice to your story and feeling you have be witnessed in your truth and deeply heard.
feel openhearted, unafraid, kind towards yourself, and empowered with tools that you can return to when you need them.
It might not be the right time for you to join Emerging Heart if you...
It might not be the right time for you to join Emerging Heart if you...
It might not be the right time for you to join Emerging Heart if you...
are in acute crisis, unsafe, at risk, or in need of professional support to navigate from your current state of emotional distress.
feel that all your quills are up in a state of defence - your primary need right now is to protect yourself and will need to feel safer before you can enter this space with softness.
you are not yet able to be a gentle container for yourself and others.
are easily at risk of being triggered, and are unable to self-regulate or do not have a suitable support network if this situation arises.
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If you have decided that now is not the right time for you to join Emerging Heart, you are encouraged to honour this knowing.
Take a little time to reflect on the way you have lovingly and courageously listened to what you need in this moment.
How does this feel in your heart?
Come back when you are ready, a space will always be available when the calling comes.
THE SPACE
Emerging Heart is for all people, of all genders, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The space is designed to be soft, nurturing, gentle, and kind.
Rising Wisdom is an LGBTQ+ inclusive space, where people are welcome to self-identify, and can expect to have their name and pronouns honoured in the way that makes them feel most like their true self. enabling them to be addressed respectfully and with dignity. Participants on this programme are asked to honour this ethos, and ensure that they are positively upholding the dignity of others.
We also recognise the systemic and ongoing marginalisation of people of the global majority, people of lower income, and those of intersecting identities.
To heal from grief, in a society that compounds trauma for some people exacerbates feelings of grief further still. Hoping to help where we can Rising Wisdom encourages the use of the Supported Places by anyone whose identity is subject to systemic oppressions, to help alleviate unnecessary financial pressure, and to offer more equitable access to this group grief tending programme.
People start to heal the moment they feel heard
Cheryl Richardson
The Dates
2025 Emerging heart JOURNEY
ONLINE OPENING CEREMONY & CIRCLE
19:30 - 21:30
Sunday 23 March
ONLINE GRIEF CIRCLES
20:00 - 21:30
Sunday 13 April
Sunday 27 April
Sunday 11 May
Sunday 18 May
Sunday 1 June
Sunday 15 June
ONLINE GROUP MEDITATIONS
20:00 - 20:45
Thursday 3 April
Thursday 17 April
Thursday 1 May
Thursday 15 May
Thursday 5 June
Thursday 19 June
ONLINE CLOSING CEREMONY & CIRCLE
19:30- 21:30
Sunday 22 June
Dates and times may be subject to change when this is necessary for the group as a whole
The Investment
Rising Wisdom offers a sliding scale payment plan to ensure our services are accessible for everyone, regardless of financial situation. You are invited to please select the rate that best reflects your current financial capacity, keeping in mind the value of this programme, and how your choice enables us to continue providing equitable access to others.
Supported - £360
Regular - £460
Comfortable - £560
Payment plans available across all payment options. Different payment schedules to those outlined in The Options below are also available, including up to a 12-months schedule. Please discuss this with Sophie at your Discovery Call.
If the Supported place price remains prohibitive to you being able to access the programme, you are invited to please contact Sophie via the Ask a Question button below so that we can explore how to meet you were you are.
The Options
YOUR PAYMENT SCHEDULE WILL BE ACTIVATED AFTER YOUR DISCOVERY CALL
Please review the Terms and Conditions before making your booking
Supported Total
£360
Full payment
Supported Instalments
£90 deposit
Pay deposit then 3 x £90 instalments
Other instalment schedules available
Regular Total
£460
Full payment
Regular Instalments
£115 deposit
Pay deposit then 3 x £115 instalments Other instalment schedules available
Comfortable Total
£560
Full payment
Comfortable Instalments
£140 deposit
Pay deposit then 3 x £140 instalments Other instalment schedules available
Frequently Asked Questions
Please email us at sophie@risingwisdom.co.uk if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Only you can decide if this group grief tending programme is right for you. Having agency over this decision is incredibly important, no one else can decide this for you. We suggest that you read through The Calling section of the website, and sometimes a good question to ask when trying to make a decision of this sort is 'does the idea of doing this make me feel expanded or contracted?. Sit with this a little while and then book a no-commitment Discovery Call with Sophie to ask questions that come up for you.
The 8 grief circles and 6 group meditations are our points of connection as a group and we encourage you to aim to come to them all. Although you have all the dates up front, we appreciate that plans can sometimes be unexpectedly and unavoidably impacted by other last minute commitments. To get the most of this programme, and to ensure the other people on the programme get the most from their experience we ask you to please try and be at least 80% of the sessions. Please let Sophie know in advance of any sessions you might miss. Where it might suit the group as a whole, session dates/times might be moved.
Circle is a gentle space of community, were we are invited to share our thoughts, feelings and stories. In circle we do not offer each other advice or guidance, because in doing so we can inadvertently deny others the opportunity to hear their own rising wisdom or to have agency over their experiences and decisions. We are the guardians of the stories told, and are invited to hold them tenderly within our circle, respectfully keep them private. Circle is a deeply nourishing space, a place for tears and sorrow, as well as joy and reflection.
Our meditations are guided, and therefore suitable for people of all levels of experience. Our meditation sessions start with a reconnection with the group, sharing our thoughts from the week, and so the meditation will be about 30 minutes long. Sophie is a trauma-informed meditation guide, aware that not everyone finds meditation simple or accessible. Sophie's approach to meditation invites you to find presence in the moment, connect with your breath and your body, and find a little stillness in the busyness of life.
Hypnotherapy can be a wonderful tool to help navigate grief, but it is not for everyone. Discuss your thoughts about it at your Foundational 1:1 Session with Sophie, and you have some time to decide, as the hypnotherapy session will take place in the middle part of the programme. You will not be forced to undergo hypnotherapy, and if you decide against it, or it is not suitable for you then you can have a deep meditation session as an alternative.
This group grief tending journey invites you to step into a space of deep care, reflection, and connection. The experience is deeply personal, and how it makes you feel will be an individual experience. Guided with warmth and wisdom, you'll explore what grief means for you, finding gentle ways to navigate its landscape. This is a space for honouring, processing, and unfolding, where transformation quietly takes root.
Please share at your Discovery Call if you have any support and accommodation needs so that these are incorporated to make your experience of Emerging Heart welcoming and inclusive. Whether this is related to a visible or hidden disability, neurodiversity, chronic health condition, or anything else, any information is handled with sensitivity and confidentially.
The programme is offered at three price points. The regular price is the proposed investment for the programme. There are also comfortable and supported prices available. The supported places are open to anybody who needs them, but are for people of lower income, people whose identity is subjected to systemic oppression, or those with intersecting identities. Payment by instalments is available across all price points, and payment schedules can be discussed at your Discovery Call with Sophie.
Reading and signing the Terms and Conditions, along with your deposit or full payment, secures your place on the programme. As per your statutory rights, you are entitled to a 14 day cooling off period allowing for a full refund, when enacted prior to the initiation of the programme.
Are you ready FOR your heart TO emerge from grief?
The Information
If you wish to spend a little longer considering the programme before securing your place, please download the Frequently Asked Questions. and the Terms and Conditions to read at your convenience.
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