Taming our grief with Jean-Michel Longneaux
What is grief? How do we grieve?
Taming our grief with Jean-Michel Longneaux
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Living through grief
This session is integrated into the rhythm and life of the monastery.
It is an opportunity to experience a time of renewal and introspection.
Guests are invited to participate in the community's prayer.
To encourage contemplation and interiority, meals are taken in silence with background music.
Our guests are invited to embrace a climate of discretion and meditation inside the buildings and in the retreatants' courtyard.
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What is grief?
- Moreover, when we are grieving, what are we really grieving?
- How can philosophy help us navigate the different losses that mark our lives, and not merely endure the changes that each grief brings?
- Through various presentations, Jean-Michel Longneaux will invite us to reflect on three essential dimensions of our human condition: our finitude, our solitude, and our uncertainty.
- He will put them in perspective with as many desires that are at work throughout our lives, in our relationship to ourselves, to others, and to our future.
- We will discover how accepting this triple reality, finitude, solitude, uncertainty, supports the implementation of certain values, such as solidarity, tolerance, authenticity, or even the courage to undertake.
- Through the presentations and question-and-answer sessions, we will better understand why we can affirm that, whatever the loss concerned (a person, an object, a job, etc.), grief consists of freeing ourselves from what we are no longer in order to be reborn to what we have become.
From Friday 21 (5:00 PM) to Sunday 23 March 2025 (4:00 PM)
The facilitator:
- Jean-Michel Longneaux is a philosopher and professor at the University of Namur.
- He is an ethics advisor in the healthcare field and editor-in-chief of the journal Ethica clinica, intended for caregivers of all professions.
- He has published several books including: "Petits essais philosophiques autour de l'éthique des soins" (Weyrich, April 2014) and "Finitude, solitude, incertitude. Une philosophie du deuil" (PUF, 2020).
Suggested offering:
€30 in program fees will be added to the regular accommodation rate with meals at Orval Abbey's guest house: €96 in a standard room (without private bathroom), €120 in a room with private bathroom