Workshops & Events
How Can I Help: Becoming a Compassionate Grief Companion
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
6:00-8:00 p.m
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 & loss.
Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity. All funding for our programs comes from grants, fundraisers, and private donations. If cost is a concern, please contact us to discuss available options.
Journey Through the Elements: A Sound Healing & Reiki Experience
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.
Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity. All funding for our programs comes from grants, fundraisers, and private donations. If cost is a concern, please contact us to discuss available options.
Grandparent/Senior Caretaker Community Nights
Wednesday, 6/3, 7/1, and 8/5
5:00-7:00 p.m
REGISTER HERE
Fee: FREE
Please join us at Hope Floats for our 3-part educational and support series for grandparents and seniors raising a child(ren). Whether it is due to death, estrangement, substance use, or another loss, this series will help you identify and cope with the grief and complexities involved in intergenerational families.
All too often today, grandparents and seniors find themselves unexpectedly raising children. Sometimes this occurs because of the death of a parent, addiction or mental health challenges, abandonment, imprisonment, or estrangement. Whatever the circumstance, stepping back into a parenting role is a significant commitment for individuals who believed their day-to-day parenting years were behind them.
The world children are growing up in today is also very different from the one grandparents and seniors experienced while raising their own families. Technology, social media, and online communication have introduced new challenges, language, and behaviors. There are also often financial concerns, insurance questions, legal complications, and emotional stressors to navigate.
There is a profound sense of grief that can accompany these experiences. Grief is the body’s response to loss, and the losses experienced within intergenerational and kinship families can be significant and complex.
This free series is made possible through the generosity of Beth Israel Lahey Hospital/BID Plymouth’s Community-Based Health Initiative Grant. Registration is required. For more information/questions, please email info@hopefloatswellness.org or call 781-585-4221
July Family Night
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
5:30-7:00 p.m
REGISTER HERE
Fee: FREE
Join us at Hope Floats for family night, a night for children and families who are grieving. Children and their families are invited to enjoy a pizza dinner and work together on a family art project. Pre-registration is required! Please register all children and adults who plan on attending. Space is limited and registration is on a first come, first served basis. We must have a minimum of 3 families registered in order to hold this event. Please contact Heather with any questions or for additional information at 781-585-4221 ext. 112.
June 2026 Book Club:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Saturday, June 27, 2026 (11am-1pm)
Hosted by Heather Gray
Registration is required; Free Event! REGISTER HERE
Join us to discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Heather Gray at heather2@hopefloatswellness.com
Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center
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, May 5, 2026
Ends: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
No class May 19 or June 16
Instructor: Laura Tryon Jennings, CAGs
Registration is required
Fee: $225 (plus $30 supply fee 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 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.