Co-creating Ritual Grief Practices in Veterinary Medicine
You are invited to join with other members of our local Colorado and global veterinary community for a discussion aimed at creating spaces to navigate the often intense forms of grief that one may face through this profession.
As a community, we are actively seeking novel solutions to the professional grief experienced in the everyday routine of veterinary and animal-care professionals.
Co-founder of A Healing Bridge, Alexandre Jodun (he/him) will guide a community eduction and discussion session to connect with the veterinary community as a mental health practitioner deeply committed to working with grief.
Alexandre Jodun is a psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator, ritualist & ceremonialist with a creole-diasporic ancestral heritage. Through a decade of training within integrative and process-oriented, as well as earth-based, animist and shamanic paradigms, his sacred activism involves tending the fertile edges of human-becoming and bridging worlds. His eclectic work is in service to the remembering of essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry the future ones.
He is an advisory circle member and facilitator of the Soulful Life community (alongside Francis Weller, Holly Truhlar, Erin Geesaman Rabke & Carl Rabke), and currently coordinates training of new psychotherapists for the Metavision Institute. He also serves on the admissions team for AWE (NGO) and their upcoming 3-year Ecstatic Mysticism training program. On his personal path, Alexandre practices vegetelismo and is in an avid apprenticeship with Master Plant Teachers, particularly Tobaco (Nicotiana Rustica) and various Amazonian trees, under the Mamancunawa lineage - which deeply informs his work and life. He lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru.
Alexandre Jodun (he/him). A Healing Bridge. 2024.
This sharing will include a guided somatic practice, poetry, and a short presentation by Alexandre on grief and ritual. The idea will then be to create a practice and discussion within the community.
Date: May 3rd 2024
Time: 4-6pm MT
Speaker: Alexandre Jodun
Cost: no cost / free
Location: CultivateWellbeing’s Virtual Waypoint, qFriday Colleague Connections
Register for this May 3rd event HERE!
No cost to join
We’re deeply grateful to Alexandre for gifting us with this session - there is no cost to attend.
Below are two of Alexandre’s favorite charitable organizations, we encourage participants to consider making a donation to support organizations close to Alexandre’s heart:
AWE Projects: These projects support the conversation of sacred wisdom projects in Ecuador, Mexico, and Gabon. Learn more about the individual projects here and to donate please visit here.
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund - PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, delivering crucial and life-saving medical relief and humanitarian aid where it is needed most.
Let us know you’re joining!
Please register in advance with this link so we know you’re coming. We’re looking forward to connect with you (either again, or for the first time).
Register for this May 3rd event through this link.
There is no cost to join this virtual event.
We invite you to listen to a recent CFTH Podcast episode with Alexandre to prepare for this event. Listen here.
This event takes place within the CultivateWellbeing Virtual Waypoint during our qFriday virtual Colleague Connection meetings within our the Care for the Healer’s Resiliency Room.
Join us every Friday (4-6p MT) for colleague connection and fellowship with spaces for both mourning and laughter. We hope to see you soon!
For those attending this event, we encourage you to bring a candle, pen, paper or journal notebook. We look forward to sharing this opportunity for those who wish to explore grief as it may relate to them personally or professionally.