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Complex feelings can compound when they stay inside. A Sacred Passing is curating a space to share and connect about competing wants while being cared for by others with a homemade meal. Many are making a choice to live, and it's really hard. Here we can be together in conversation about what life is like when actively making the choice to live while not wanting to.
Why Suicide Suppers?
Our initial goals for Suicide Suppers are:
- to create a sustainable, generous, caring, and supportive space
- to make space for people to talk about their feelings, without looking for a solution or a fix
- for people to receive physical nourishment and care by being served a meal made with love and intention
- to bring the conversation out of the body
- to share resources and tools for
What Happens at SS?
Please be on time.
- Over appetizers we will share a poem, the boundaries for the space, community wishes, and introductions.
- We offer a variety of conversational prompts, though conversations may also take their own direction, led by the attendees.
- We will work to close the thickest part of our conversation before the last course of the meal, leaving time to gather ourselves befo
What Suicide Suppers Are-
- A small, facilitated conversation over a meal
- An opportunity to be in community with others who understand complex, conflicting feelings
- A chance to be served a warm meal, made with love and care
- A non-medical space
- An opportunity to talk, and for feelings to be released from the body in a healthy way
What Suicide Suppers Are Not -
- Not a space for people in active crisis
- Not a space for medical advice
- Not a space for continued support outside of these dinners
- Not medical counseling
- Not a support group
Please add yourself to the waitlist.
Suppers are planned once a month for the next 6 months. Each meal is limited to 8 guests.
We will work our way through the waitlist, inviting everyone once before repeating. We ask that if you commit to a seat, you do attend. You are important.
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