Community Events

Grab your popcorn and beverage of choice and join us for a screening of the documentary PROGNOSIS – notes on living! Stick around after the screening for a film discussion. In perhaps her bravest act as a filmmaker, Oscar-winning San Francisco documentarian, LGBTQ+ activist, and Frameline Award recipient Debra Chasnoff (It’s Elementary) responded to her […]

Join author Dana Lacy Amarisa as she starts us off with her kind, insightful, and straightforward presentation on the practical yet heart-centered steps to saying helpful condolences to a friend, business associate, or family member who might be sad about anything. This talk is based on Amarisa’s book, Condolences Pocket Guide: What to Say and […]

Join author Dana Lacy Amarisa (Condolences Pocket Guide) as she takes us on a compassionate tour of our culture’s most commonly said unhelpful condolences—using them as a helpful roadmap to offering meaningful consolation to a sad friend. “I’ve said almost every condolence that I urge people to never, ever say to a grieving friend. So […]

So much grief goes unseen and unhealed because of life events that are not understood by us as losses. Then the griever feels misunderstood, creating a second loss for them—the loss of the support network they desperately need in order to heal. One of the many types of listening—deep listening—goes to the root of supporting […]