Bearing the Unbearable ~ The Wisdom Course Online

When we love deeply, we mourn deeply. Over ten lessons, grief expert and Zen priest Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and Karla Helbert help us navigate our path through grief, showing us a model that allows us to be with our grief and, over time, transform it into compassionate action in the world.
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What You’ll Learn
  • The Selah grief model, which mindfully guides those who are grieving through three phases: being with grief, surrendering to grief, and doing with grief
  • Self-care practices and tools to help you in your grief journey
  • Meditation practices and movement exercises for being with your grief
  • How to identify grief and its effects cognitively, socially, and somatically
  • How to find meaning through doing with your grief: transforming it into compassionate action in the world.

Preview lesson 1 for free now, and enroll anytime to have ongoing online access to the course!

This course includes:
  • 10 lessons
  • 30–90 minutes of video teachings per lesson
  • PDF readings
  • Guided meditations and movement exercises
  • A forum where you can interact with an international community of fellow students

​"Over the course of ten lessons we learn what grief is and how we can identify its effects within ourselves. Dr. Jo guides us through the Selah model of grief, which emphasizes not overcoming grief but rather creating space for it in our lives in a threefold way: by being with our grief, surrendering to it, and finally, doing with our grief—or transfiguring it into compassionate action in the world. Dr. Jo opens a space to process, integrate, and deeply honor our grief, with lessons augmented by guided meditations and yoga exercises by co-teacher and fellow counselor Karla Helbert. Through this course, you’ll not only learn how to care for yourself in your grief but also how, by staying with the pain, we can make the world a beautiful place for the ones we have loved and lost."