Workshops & Events
October 2025 Book Club
"Survival Lessons" by Alice Hoffman
Saturday, October 18, 2025
11:00 AM -1:00 PM (FREE)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. In “Survival Lessons,” Best-selling Author Alice Hoffman explores her own experiences navigating the complexities of a Breast Cancer diagnosis, while sharing with readers some profound lessons she learned along the way.
Any questions? please contact Heather Gray at heather2@hopefloatswellness.com
How Can I Help? How To Become A Compassionate Grief Companion
Saturday, October 18, 2025
3:00 PM -5:00 PM
Cost: $30 (non-refundable)
Often when someone we know and care about experiences a loss it can be challenging to know how to offer support. This workshop will focus on providing helpful tools, strategies, and information to anyone looking to learn how to better support those navigating grief due to the death of a loved one. Drawing from evidence-based practices as well as personal testimony from individuals and families walking their own grief journey, participants will gain valuable insight into the unique challenges and needs accompanying the death of a loved one and how best to provide help.
Any questions? please contact info@hopefloatswellness.com for assistance.
Surviving Grief During the Holidays with Gary Sturgis
Saturday, October 25, 2025
1:00-2:30 PM
Cost: $25 (non-refundable)
The first step in coping with grief at the holidays is to acknowledge that the holiday season is difficult. In this presentation, Gary will offer compassionate and practical tips on how to navigate your way through the maze of grief during the holiday season.
Chipotle Fundraiser Event for Hope Floats
Hanover Crossing, Hanover, MA
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
5:00 PM-9:00 PM
Please Bring Flyer to Event
Hope Floats is partnering with Chipotle for an October Fundraiser!
Join us at the Hanover, MA Chipotle location at Hanover Crossing, on Wednesday, October 29th from 5-9PM.
25% of sales from the evening (with this flyer) will be donated to Hope Floats, to help support our free services. Be sure to bring this flyer in on the evening of this event. Online ordering/ordering ahead using code LFV7DGL on the Chipotle app can also be used to help support our agency.
Be sure to tell your friends, family, and neighbors about this event. Your support will help us continue to offer free support groups, funds for our Mike's Club programming, and the various free offerings throughout the year. Hope Floats is a 501c3, non-profit agency. Thank you for considering us for this opportunity.
We hope to see you there.
Any questions? please contact info@hopefloatswellness.com for assistance.
Oil Painting Workshop with a Twist for the Beginner to the Intermediate…(Adults)
Reawaken Your Creative Soul and Learn to Paint
Tuesdays 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (6-week session)
Starts: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Ends: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Instructor: Laura Tryon Jennings, CAGs
Registration is required
Fee: $225 (plus $30 supply fee if needed or desired). Limited space available.
Tap into an extraordinary resource: the vibrant, vital force of your own creative character in a nurturing, encouraging, and safe environment and discover your distinctive path to oil painting. You only need bring the willingness to give up any attachment to feeling you have no talent or creativity. The focus of this workshop is to enjoy the creative experience and self-nurturing qualities oil painting can provide to your soul. It offers a unique blend of learning the basics of oil painting materials, foundations of color theory, color mixing, composition and working with the flow of the creative process to awaken creative spirit, remember playfulness, and open a fuller expression of authentic self by nurturing your essence. Artist Jennings approaches teaching each student individually, so they can paint freely, at their own level, and paint a subject (landscape, still life, portrait, abstract, interior, etc. from life and/or from a photograph) befitting their skills and needs. The workshop can be used as a vehicle for expression, playing with paint, learning the techniques of oil painting, and/or to have instructional oil painting, which means you truly can be a beginner, intermediate, or simply get a feel for oil painting. All supplies will be provided for $30 or bring your own supplies if you prefer.
For students who have absolutely no background in painting and desire instructional painting, one or two private classes with Laura may be recommended before jumping into a six-week session. If this isn’t feasible, Laura asks for patience, particularly on the first day, and encourages you to contact her with your email and phone number so she can connect with you at least one week before class: LTryonJennings@gmail.com, 781-837-7982.
There is a 12-student maximum.
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. For more information contact Hope Floats at 781-585-4221.
Make-up classes will be scheduled by the instructor only in the event they are cancelled due to weather or if the instructor cancels. No refunds, credits, or pro-rates. The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury and Hope Floats in Kingston have kindly agreed one make-up class per session can be made up at the other venue. This gives you five days to choose from to make up a class if you need to make-up a day. (No make-up on the first day of a new session). At least 24 hour notice is required to make up a class.
In case of inclement weather there will be a make-up class scheduled after the last class of each session.