We of the OTH Team are very pleased to be invited back to the Avow Hospice in Naples, Florida for a second year of what promises to be an annual collaboration. This project has ben organized with the support of our dear friend Louise Kenny. Louise trained as an Opening the Heart Workshop™ facilitator when the organization was located in Ashby, Massachusetts. She is now working as a grief counsellor at the Avow Hospice.

This will be a very full one day workshop on September 20th. Full details can be obtained by following this link. A downloadable pdf brochure is available by clicking here: 'Avow to offer full day grief workshop'.

As the workshop is sponsored by Hospice and the support of generous donors, the cost is just $45. We are grateful to our friends at Avow for making this opportunity possible.

I'm sitting in Starbucks on Charles Street in Boston between some medical appointments at Mass General Hospital. Its been four days since I returned home from the OTH Training and Workshop at Omega. Linda, Jon, Donna and I feel good about both events. We are grateful for the positive and helpful feedback we received from participants. (If you didn't get to fill in a feedback form please feel free to either send an e-mail to staff@openingtheheart.com or post comments below.)

We are interested in hearing of changes in your lives that were initiated by participation in the workshop and you are welcome to keep us updated by e-mail at the above address. We will not make any updates public without your permission and complete agreement.

As we do not advertise our workshops other than through the website and the Omega and Kripalu brochures, we are completely dependent on participants spreading the word by personal recommendation. Our next workshop in the New England area is at Kripalu on the weekend of November 21 - 23.