Life, Loss & Forgiveness

What Is The Love, Loss and Forgiveness Project?

As the The Love, Loss and Forgiveness Project develops it will make available to you filmed materials (based on the workshops of the same name) and will be accompanied by interpretive guidebooks. There will also be a vibrant online community created for additional support with forums and other guided learning environments.


Welcome

When we learn to love ourselves unconditionally, we are well prepared to love others, and hatred will have no place. And when we are prepared to experience the pain and grief of everyday loss, we are also prepared to experience the creative possibilities that follow. When we are prepared to forgive, we will know how to lay down the heavy burdens found in our stories of betrayal, abuse and hurt.

The Love, Loss and Forgiveness Project will inspire you and provide you with tools that will help you lead more loving lives as you create ongoing, home-based learning opportunities - as part of an online community - that become woven into your everyday lives.

	The Project's Welcome Book is now available and can be downloaded here. This eight-page booklet is a summary of the Project and Practices. Please share it freely with associates, colleagues, friends and family members; introducing them to the project and answering questions they may have before becoming involved. The lighthouse is the Project’s symbol, may it also light the way for others. This booklet is the group effort of Michael, Sandra Murphy, and John Carlson; along with help from the US Board, friends in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Romania. It features the lovely design work of graphic artist, Paul Miyamoto, a former Board member and a good friend of the Project.
	Meet Michael Murphy A leader in the early hospice movement in America, Michael has been guiding workshops in love and loss, internationally, for many years.		Levels of Being There are 4 levels of being. The highest level is Self-Awareness by Human Mortals.
	Workshops Michael's workshops are practical, experiential and inspirational.		Mortal The physical aspect of our nature that is born and dies.
	The Blog The blog features a wealth of reflections by Michael and others, as well as eloquent, heartfelt Letting Go testimonials from people who have lost a loved one.		Soul The soul is our feminine, witnessing, and loving nature. We look for others to love us, but when we are connected to our Soul that is our wellspring of self-esteem, we will find that the love we need most comes from within.
	Dzogchen Beara Michael holds some workshops at this Buddhist Monastery on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. Here the wild masculine Spirit of nature is so much in evidence in the clouds and the wind, and the earthy, moist feminine Soul of nature bids us welcome in this Irish place.		Spirit The spirt is our masculine guiding nature that creates a safe place for Mortal and Soul. We search for an external father figure or Guru to guide us in how to live our lives, but when we are in touch with our Spirit, we will discover that the greatest source of guidance and safety comes from within.

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