Hosted by Hope Floats’ Maureen Walsh, NP, FT, Fundamentals of Grief is a training designed for community members, professionals, educators, caregivers, and anyone who wants to better understand grief and support someone who is grieving. This six-hour workshop will explore the dynamics of grief and provide practical tools and strategies for supporting individuals through their grief journey.
Through presentation, personal reflection, and group discussion, participants will explore topics including grief theories, disenfranchised grief, secondary loss, children and grief, grief over time, self-care, and what grievers need from those around them.
More information can be found here: https://www.hopefloatswellness.org/grief-trainings/.
Contact us at info@hopefloatswellness.org with any further questions.
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, September 29th
Ends: Tuesday, November 3rd
Instructor: Laura Tryon Jennings, CAGs
REGISTER HERE
Fee: $225 (plus $30 supply fee paid 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.
Friday, July 10th, 2026
6:00-7:15 PM
Fee: $44
Come settle into a space where you can just slow down for a bit. This session blends Reiki with sound healing. Crystal bowls, chimes, and grounding tones, to help you feel more balanced and at ease. We will weave the elements in, earth to help you feel grounded, water to keep things flowing, fire (not live fire) for a little transformation, and air to lift and lighten things up. Nothing complicated, just gentle support for whatever you’re carrying.
Teacher Retreat
July 31, 2026, 10 AM – 4 PM
*Holding fee of $25
Register Here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/usj5f4u
Join us for a relaxing day-long retreat for teachers with mini-healing treatments given by our certified and talented practitioners, a nourishing meal, and self-care!
There is also time to explore our peaceful grounds, or to find a quiet spot in our beautiful main house to sit with a cup of tea. This retreat is an opportunity to take care of yourself and connect with other teachers. We gain so much from sharing and being with others.
How Can I Help?: Becoming a Compassionate Grief Companion Workshop
Register Here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/2hz5mdv
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, & 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 testimonies, participants will gain valuable insight into the unique challenges and needs accompanying the death of a loved one and how best to provide help in a way that transcends the isolation often felt by those managing grief and loss.
A Gathering for Those Living with Loss
with Gary Sturgis
This isn’t a workshop or a structured support group.
Instead, this gathering offers a quiet, welcoming space for those who are living with loss to come
together, without expectation, pressure, or agenda.
Grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and there’s no “right way” to move through it. For many, what’s
needed most isn’t instruction, but simply a place to be, to sit among others who understand, in
whatever way feels right that day.
During this time together, Gary will gently host the space, offering light guidance if needed.
There may be moments of conversation, reflection, or simply quiet presence. Attendees are
welcome to share, to listen, or to remain silent.
There will also be space for those who wish to ask questions or share concerns about their own
grief journey, in a supportive and understanding setting.
All are welcome, wherever they are in their grief.
This is an in-person gathering, created to offer a sense of connection, understanding, and a
moment of not feeling so alone.
Bereaved Mother’s Day Retreat
Friday, May 8, 2026
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
REGISTER HERE ($25 Holding Fee)
Join us for a relaxing and healing day-long retreat just for moms whose children have passed. Relax with gentle yoga, an afternoon meal, and mini-healing treatments given by our certified and talented practitioners.
There is also time to explore our peaceful grounds, or to find a quiet spot in our beautiful main house to sit with a cup of tea. We will provide everyone with a wonderful lunch.
This retreat is an opportunity to take care of yourself and meet other moms who have experienced the death of a child(ren). We gain so much from sharing and being with others who are on this difficult grief journey. We look forward to meeting you all.
Registration is required. Space is limited.
Contact us at info@hopefloatswellness.org or 781-585-4221 for more information.