Creative Approaches Grief Retreat
From Annelies & Conduit for Change, LLC
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
Integrative Life & Leadership Coach | Consultant | Speaker | Facilitator | Author | Process Artist | Spiritual Guide
Hello Dear Ones,
For those who've been following me for years, you know pre-covid I led creativity retreats regularly. Some were playful monthly events, others were weekend beach retreats focused on personal or professional development, and one in particular was about grief.
It's been awhile... do you remember "The Lotus and the Butterfly: A Creative Journey through Grief"? Yes, that one I led a few times and was powerful and tender. Some of you still talk about how helpful it was.
Well, it's time again to get back on the retreat saddle. This time I'm choosing to collaborate for shared success and trying a few new ways to serve. Expect several creativity retreats both in-person and online this year!
No matter how big or small, moving through change can be challenging and unraveling to every aspect of life. Having tools to navigate can help you along the journey better. Playfulness helps!
Join us...
- Online via Zoom for "Creative Approaches to Expressing Grief :: Online Retreat"
- REGISTRATION CLOSED
What to Expect in this Online Retreat:
- Enjoy 3 hours with experienced leaders with creative gifts for helping you transform grief
- Explore with others like you through thoughtful activities and guided break out conversations
- Engage new resilience tools in expressive arts, mindfulness practices, and storytelling
- Enlighten your heart as you discover and tend the gifts hidden in the grief we all carry
- Experience enough space for listening, processing and kindness so you feel safe, heard and understood
Who is this retreat for? If you've experienced... any or all of the following, this retreat is for you!
- You are human and have had enough experience in life to be changed by change
- Recent loss or a loss(es) from awhile back that still linger
- Varied life changes heavy on your heart: death, divorce, caregiver, empty nest, retirement
- Simply curious to learn more about how creativity can help you and those you lead move through the arcs of change
Meet Your Facilitators: Annelies Gentile of Conduit for Change, Greg Whitt of Drum for Change and Nancy and Dan Loeffler of Being with Grief.
Hope you'll join us for our next retreat together online.
Love and light, Annelies ✨
Annelies and Greg create safe, compassionate, creative spaces for people to learn, heal and grow. Together, they bring soothing synergy that helps mend the gaps with ease and joy.
At 30, Annelies unexpectedly became the primary care-taker for her father in the prime of her young adult-life yanking out solid ground beneath her. Lost, alone and grieving, she found herself calculating how many people close to her she's lost. "Stop counting how many" her coach guided after she got to 40 people lost. "Do something with your pain. Serve.". Annelies attracts people hurling through varied arcs of change. At 50, she's still finding her way and shares what she's learned, helping you navigate uncertainty with courage, creativity and grace.
Annelies M Gentile MA, PCC of Conduit for Change facilitates depth and heart for embodied creative conversations, guiding you home. She's an Integrative Life and Leadership Coach, Expressive Artist and Author of From Chaos to Calm :: Leading Change from the Inside Out. She works with leaders and the communities they serve. Clients include IBM, City of Raleigh, Fidelity, Baptist Medical, UNC-REX, WakeMed, Campbell Law, NC Alliance for Mental Health and many more.
Greg Whitt of Drum for Change brings his philosophy of a good life and rhythm. He's an award winning teaching artist, facilitator and edutainer. Greg brings gifts of transformative leadership and 20+ years of music traditions to help groups reframe their perspective. He facilitates within leadership, wellness, grief, trauma and culture, bringing ideas that share old world wisdom in modern context. He's worked with NC Medical Board, Duke University Student Health, NC Lung Cancer Initiative, UNC and Duke hospice, DaVita Dialosis, Lenovo and so many more.
Dan and Nancy Loeffler are the founders of Being With Grief and the hosts of a weekly radio show about grief on Frogtown Radio, WFNU, 94.1.
As parents who lost their 17-year old daughter Leah in a car accident in November of 2000, they fully understand the territory of grief. Their daughter’s death provided a doorway to their transformation that they never expected. They now help others to navigate grief.
Dan is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, and Nancy works intuitively, using mindfulness practices, as well as other strategies that assisted her on her journey.
Nancy is also the author of The Alchemy of Grief, Your Journey to Wholeness, an account of her grief journey as well as wisdom she discovered along the way.
Their passion is changing the conversation around grief, and helping their clients find meaning, purpose and joy again so they can fully participate in their lives.
Nancy and Dan help you address beginnings.
- Do you want to move through grief, but don’t know where to start?
- Do you long to live a meaningful life again, one that honors your loved one?
- Are you afraid that if you heal your tender heart that you will forget your loved one?
Nancy and Dan have been where you might be and have helped many people successfully learn how to fully participate in their lives again. They offer coaching, speaking, webinars, retreats and free resources. Learn more at Being With Grief.
Contact Annelies
EMPOWERING PEOPLE. FOSTERING IDEAS . CHANGING LIVES
Conduit for Change, LLC
Email: annelies@conduitforchange.com
Website: www.conduitforchange.com
Phone: 919-345-8396
Annelies M Gentile, MA, PCC is an Integrative Life and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Process Artist, and Author of From Chaos to Calm :: Leading Change from the Inside Out, an invaluable guide to resilience for leaders seeking sense, solace and sanity in our rapidly changing world. She's also the executive founder of Conduit for Change, LLC a unique resource for creative transformation.
Annelies helps you cross the threshold of uncertainty. This looks different for different people, like multi-faceted magic; she's every leader's best kept shared secret. She's helped thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, executives and visionaries transform and take bold brave action in their personal and professional lives.
From nurturing ideas and cultivating creativity, to fine-tuning focus and managing burnout to tending grief associated with change, she’s served communities, congregations and companies across fields of faith to government, healthcare, law, education, non-profits, arts, tech, science and sales including IBM, GSK, SAS, NCSU, City of Raleigh, NCDOT, Fidelity, Iron Mountain, Helm, Baptist Medical Center, UNC-REX, WakeMed, Campbell Law, NC Bar Association, Captrust, NC Alliance for Mental Health and more.
Her previous careers include working on Broadway, first national tours, manager of Hard Rock Cafe in Dubai, and regional educator for three global haircare companies.
She’s worked closely with three NC governors in a row including former Gov. Bev Perdue for eight years. It's here, with Bev's blessing that she began her path of coaching leaders. 17 years working in theater and television production, management, corporate training, regional educator and visual arts is where she frequently worked closely with high-performing, high-level professionals. This experience helped her understand the internal struggles of leaders as they face isolation and relentless stress at the top.
At her core, Annelies is a sacred space holder and trusted co-pilot, a natural born intuitive who brings hope, inspiration and creative insight.
In addition to executive life and leadership coaching, she's also a frequent international podcast and keynote speaker, and loves facilitating creative retreat experiences for personal and professional growth, wellness and transformative leadership.
Her education includes a Master’s degree in Coaching (Maryland University of Integrative Health), graduate studies in Creativity, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (European Graduate School in Switzerland), Transformative Leadership (Tai Sophia Institute), and is a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with ICF.
Annelies is also an ordained Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counselor helping individuals, couples and leaders communicate clearly with meaning and compassion. Presiding over life transitions from birth to death to honoring sacred celebrations, ceremony, weddings is another way she holds space for meaningful moments.
Learn more about Annelies and her book From Chaos to Calm :: Leading Change from the Inside Out at www.conduitforchange.com She lives in Raleigh, NC with her sweetheart Greg Whitt of www.drumforchange.com.