🌈 Beyond Words: Somatic Tools for Grief, Identity, and Resilience

A LIGHT Movement Workshop for LGBTQIA+ Community Members and Allies
Hosted by PFLAG Highlands Ranch
📅 Date: June 18th, 2025
🕒 Time: 6 – 8 pm MT
💻 Location: Virtual (Zoom link will be provided after registration)
🎟 Free for PFLAG Highlands Ranch members and neighboring PFLAG chapter members

About the Workshop:

For LGBTQIA+ folks and allies, grief isn’t just about who we’ve lost—it’s about what we’ve lost: safety, belonging, acceptance, rights. This workshop offers a space to name and feel that grief, to learn how it lives in the body, and to move toward healing and growth—together.

Grounded in science and guided by somatic tools, this 2-hour virtual session will help you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and find strength in community.

What You’ll Experience:

• 💔 Acknowledgment of often-unseen grief:

  • Loss of family or faith-based acceptance

  • Discrimination against LGBTQIA+ loved ones

  • Barriers to medical care

  • Political and legislative setbacks

  • Collective grief from hate crimes and community tragedies

  • Generational trauma from systemic oppression

• 🧠 Education on how grief lives in the body:

  • Understand the nervous system through polyvagal theory

  • Learn about chronic grief, complex PTSD, and the window of tolerance

• ✨ Somatic practices to support healing:

  • Breathwork, grounding, and gentle movement

  • Sound and voice-based release techniques

  • Rituals to honor grief and affirm identity

Participants will leave with practical tools and resources for ongoing care and community connection.

Who Can Attend?

This is a members-only event hosted by PFLAG Highlands Ranch. We are proud to offer this space in support of our local members and members from neighboring PFLAG chapters.

If you’re not a current member but are interested in joining or learning more, please email us at [email protected] or visit pflaghighlandsranch.org.

About The LIGHT Movement:

The LIGHT (Love In Grief, Held Together) Movement is a nonprofit organization dedicated to somatic grief support across all types of loss. LIGHT offers inclusive, body-based workshops, retreats, education, and training rooted in neuroscience, compassion, and community care. Learn more at lightmovement.org.

🔗 Register now to reserve your spot. Space is limited.