Event Schedule:
- 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Mindful Grief Support Group
- Formal meeting time with meditation and guided self-compassion practices.
- 7:00 – 8:30 pm: Community Sharing and Caring (Optional)
- Participants are invited to share or listen mindfully—a supportive group discussion about lessons learned and practices used.
Event Intentions: In this safe and supportive space, we aim to:
- Stand witness to the suffering caused by life’s losses and death.
- Embrace our pain with mindful presence and self-compassion.
- Recognize our common humanity and extend compassion to all experiencing sorrow.
- Observe our suffering with balanced awareness, acknowledging its reality without being overwhelmed.
- Mindfully support each other without offering judgment, solutions, or comparison.
Support Group Behavioral Intentions: During our gatherings, we commit to:
- Creating a safe place for everyone to share and heal.
- Practicing loving-kindness in all actions and speech.
- Offering ourselves and others compassion as we navigate grief together.
- Acknowledging that loss and death are inherent aspects of human life.
- Allowing each individual the space to share if they desire, with the utmost respect for confidentiality.
- Communicating with compassion, avoiding judgment, and refraining from comparing grief experiences.
- Honoring each loss as unique and irreplaceable, recognizing that responses to grief vary and are deeply personal.
Cheryl Muck-King
Cheryl grew up in a small town in Kansas and always knew she wanted to be a nurse. She attended Fort Hays State University and later earned a Master of Science in Nursing degree in Dallas. Throughout her forty-nine-year career, she worked for various healthcare organizations and was involved in the development of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Cheryl also created her own home healthcare consulting firm, which she ran for 20 years.
She has been an active volunteer in religious organizations, serving in both Deacon and elder roles. She currently supports the Dallas Meditation Center, facilitating the “Mindful Mondays” sangha and designing multiple training programs.
Her interest in mindfulness, meditation, and hospice culminated in her writing a book, Mindfulness in a Time of Grief.
Jiyoon Lee
JiYoon Lee serves many roles: most notably, she currently serves the Dallas Meditation Center community as the Center Director. To offer herself as a healer, she is currently in training for Somatic Experiencing Therapy. Previously, she offered herself as a yoga teacher, translator, and creative writing instructor. She is grateful for her mindful practices -yoga, meditation, and artistic practices- and the Sangha that guides her to deepen her understanding of the World.
Elena Jacobs
Elena Jacobs holds a BA in Developmental Psychology and Sociology with a focus on anthropology. She studied the psychology of aging, death, and dying, and applied her knowledge to working with the aging population for 10 years at retirement communities. She currently facilitates an Alzheimer’s support group along with the Mindful Grief Support group.
