Author, activist, and healer Michelle Cassandra Johnson leads a workshop to guide participants in a process and practice of acknowledging, honoring, digesting, and metabolizing the sorrows in the world.

As part of bee folklore, there was a practice that involved bees being told of significant life events—births, marriages, deaths, and other life transitions. It is believed that this practice of telling the bees is connected with bees being psychopomps, beings who could guide souls to the afterlife and other realms. This tradition uplifts the importance of ceremony, storytelling, and ritual as it relates to engaging with the bees and natural world to support us in our mourning and grief process. In this offering, Michelle Cassandra Johnson guides you through the process and practice of telling the bees about your heartache and how you are acknowledging, honoring, digesting, and metabolizing the sorrows in the world. Using meditation to connect with a honeybee hive, Michelle invites you to share what is in your heart with them, and listen to what the honeybee might have to offer in response to you and the sorrows you are present with. This experience will include meditation, presencing ourselves to our individual and collective grief, humming, some movement, and discussion.