A SIX-MONTH CONTEMPLATIVE EXPLORATION

Living With Loss

ONLINE  |  Wednesdays  |  December 2, 2026 – May 10, 2027

6:30–8:00 p.m. Eastern Time  •  Limited to 16 participants

Offered at no cost

Loss takes many forms: the death of someone we love, changes in health and physical capacity, the ending of relationships, aging, shifts in identity and role, unrealized hopes, and the losses that accompany simply being alive.

A practice of turning toward

Drawing on Buddhist wisdom, contemporary understandings of grief, poetry, nature, meditation, and shared reflection, we will explore how to turn toward rather than away from loss. We will not seek to “get over” grief or explain suffering away. Instead, we will practice being present to what has been lost, what remains, and what may still be possible.

“How do we continue to love when everything we love is impermanent?”

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Barbara Hamm, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, founder of Nature Connections, and core faculty member at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. She spent more than 30 years with Cambridge Health Alliance’s Victims of Violence Program, including nine years as director, and maintains a Harvard Square practice in psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. She co-founded the Transformative Action Project at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law and is currently training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Chaplaincy.

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Class is limited to 16 participants.