Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center is a local non-profit in Kingston, MA that helps our neighbors and families cope with life’s most challenging trials. During the past 14 years, our free support groups for children, teens, and adults who have experienced loss have helped thousands of people move forward in their grief.

The golf tournament and dinner will celebrate loved ones we’ve lost and honor them by raising funds for support services that bring hope and healing to our community. Your participation will help sustain our nonprofit’s outreach for years to come.

Based in Kingston, Hope Floats provides free services to about 700 people a year. Grieving children, adults, and families gain coping skills in a safe and confidential setting where they are accompanied by others walking a similar path. As the need for support services continues to grow, Hope Floats currently offers a dozen support groups. Those include groups for parents who have lost a child, to overdose and suicide loss, partner-spouse loss, and others including our Mike’s Club program for families.

Hope Floats could not provide resources to local families in their time of need without community partners like you!

Thanks for considering partnering with us in this “Renewal of Hope” event.

Visit our Golf Page for more information, and to sign up! 

https://e.givesmart.com/events/uZE/

Family Night at Hope Floats

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

5:00 – 6:30 pm

Registration is required –REGISTER HERE

Join us at Hope Floats for family night for children and families grieving the death of a loved one. A pizza dinner will be served, then children and their families are invited to work together on a family art project, decorating and planting pots for the springtime. Please register all family members that plan on attending. For more information contact Abby Hennigan at 781-585-4221 ext. 4.

Holistic Cancer Retreat Friday, April 14, 2023 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center Registration required – Register Here

If you have recently been impacted by a cancer diagnosis, please join us at Hope Floats for a day of rest and renewal created especially for you. Enjoy a gentle yoga class, group support, a nourishing noon meal, as well as varied holistic treatments. Our gifted practitioners, facilitators and volunteers will offer you a nurturing space to find an oasis of comfort and ease as you navigate this challenging time. (As we want to make sure you are able to fully participate and enjoy this day of support, if you are currently undergoing treatment, please obtain a signed letter of permission from your doctor). This group is led by trained Hope Floats peer volunteer facilitators. Please contact Liz McKenna or Heather Gray for more information: 781-585-4221.

Oil Painting With a Twist for the Beginner to the Intermediate.. (Adults)

Reawaken Your Creative Soul Learn to Paint, or Just paint…

Location: Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center, 4 Elm Street, Kingston, MA 02364

 

Tuesdays 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (6-week session)

Starts: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Ends: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Instructor:  Laura Tryon Jennings, CAGs
Registration: call 781-936-8068, CLASS IS FULL – please check back for next session
Fee: $198 (plus $28 supply fee paid to Laura if needed or desired)

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 class 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 or bring your own supplies if you prefer.

For students who have absolutely no background in painting and desire instructional painting, I recommend one or two private classes with me before jumping into a six-week session. If this isn’t feasible, I ask for patience, particularly on the first day, and encourage you to contact me with your email and phone number so I can connect with you at least one week before class. (LTryonJennings@gmail.com, 781-837-7982 landline)

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 will be made after one week of classes. Classes cannot be pro-rated except for COVID-19 related events.

Vaccines recommended. Be aware the class will be following state COVID-19 guidelines. Thank you for your patience while navigating this fluid situation.