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12 Gifts of Hope Project
How a Fortune Cookie Can Heal Grief

The 12 Gifts of Hope Project resulted from a program written by Nan Zastrow for their annual When the Holidays Hurt grief event. However, the project isn’t specific to holiday grief. It’s an ongoing project to give hope over a 12 week or 12 month period of time.

The purpose of the activity is to engage family and friends to initiate healing moments for a bereaved person through random acts of kindness, without intentionally letting the bereaved person know what they chose to do.  Through this project, the bereaved are reminded to be aware and accept these random acts of kindness as sincere efforts to help them through the grieving process. They are also encouraged to recognize that sometimes these moments of “hope” may be overlooked because one is so absorbed in his/her grief that he or she fails to recognize the “good fortune” of family and friends.

This link will take you to ideas of how to give and receive 12 Gifts of Hope. This is an ongoing project and feedback will be added to the website occasionally. We invite you to participate with ideas you might have. You may email your feedback to wings1@charter.net   A complete program guide will be published in 2009

 
 

12 Gifts of Hope Project

 
 
 
  Wings Mission Statement Wings is recognized as an international resource for grief education. We encourage a choice to heal through inspiration, compassion, and hope.

Wings encourages personal healing through information and education about grief. Healing our grief requires a personal commitment to understand why we feel the way we do. It gives us the freedom to find purpose in living again.

Wings provides awareness to the bereaved and to the community about the process, not the event of grief. We combine personal feelings and professional thoughts to help us understand the process of grief work. We tell real stories about real people who have walked the journey of grief before us and can now show us the way.

Wings initiates healing by sharing. We promote a healthy approach to grief, not necessarily to change behavior. We listen without comparing your journey with others. When you share your feelings, you not only heal your own pain, but also confirm to others that they are not alone.

 
     

What's New

Light My Way
2009 BP/USA
Annual National Gathering
7/10 - 7/12, 2009
Schedule of Events 2009
2009 Understanding Grief Seminar 
2009 Spring Newsletter
2009 Healing Your Grief from the Inside Out

Available now from Centering Corporation is this new release by Nan Zastrow
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