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Gatherings at The Lantern
Our programs bring people together through ritual, art, music, storytelling and shared experiences. Offerings encourage reflection, contemplation, expression and transformation.
Monthly Men’s Group
Once a month, men gather, sit together around a loose theme, follow the conversation where it leads, and occasionally break into smaller groups or pairs when the work calls for more intimacy. This is not therapy, and it is not a seminar.
Grieving Beloved Animal Companions
This in-person peer support group welcomes those grieving the death of a pet or companion animal, experiencing loss after rehoming or separation, or anticipating a death.
Honoring Animal Companions: Creating Memorial Altars
This workshop offers participants an opportunity to learn how to shift inward grieving toward external mourning by memorializing the loss of their animal companion through the creation of memorial altars.
Movement: The Body Knows
The Body Knows is a guided movement practice rooted in somatic awareness and moving meditation. You'll slow down, listen to your body, and move in whatever way feels authentic to you.
Alchemy of Late Summer: An Earth Element Workshop
This two-hour workshop is part of a five-session series marking the turning of each season through the lens of Chinese medicine and Daoist philosophy. The Earth element asks: what truly nourishes you?
Beautiful Monsters: A Sculptural Exploration of Our Light and Darkness
What if the parts of ourselves we struggle with most are also the source of our greatest gifts? In his first sculptural exhibition, Mark Holloway explores the places where our beauty and our brokenness share the same roots.
Befriending Mortality (Virtual)
Befriending mortality can be seen as a spiritual quest, a psychological assignment, a philosophical riddle, or a culture-making undertaking. In this six-part series we approach the fact of our deaths as a subject for learning.
The Cheryl Hauser Effect: Story and Conversation about VSED
You are invited to a special gathering introducing The Cheryl Hauser Effect, a documentary about Cheryl Hauser, a thoughtful advocate for end-of-life autonomy, now in its final stage of production.
Deathbed Dress Rehearsal
In Deathbed Dress Rehearsal, witness and participate in a guided role-play process that explores the perspectives of a dying person and the people gathered at the bedside.
Befriending Mortality (In person)
An person intensive hosted by Holly J. Pruett—Befriending Mortality can be seen as a spiritual quest, a psychological assignment, a philosophical riddle, or a culture-making undertaking. In this two-day workshop we approach the fact of our deaths as a subject for learning.
Exploring the Healing Power of Family Stories
Explore how your family stories, culture, and traditions have had a significant impact in shaping who you are today and what you believe is valuable to pass on to the next generation. How has your cultural inheritance shaped your life, your values, and your sense of personal identity?
Grief Holiday
Grief Holiday represents both an artistic experiment and a community commitment: a way to be present with grief and connection through the power of art. This project affirms art’s power to serve urgent human needs while honoring Portland’s diverse communities.
Movement: Qigong
Qigong is an ancient practice rooted in Taoist wisdom and Chinese medicine that cultivates the circulation of life force through the body. The sessions run each Tuesday at 10am for 45 minutes, and can be practiced standing or seated. This is a practice for any body, at any stage of life.
The Artist’s Way: Winter 2027 Cohort
Join the Winter 2027 Cohort for The Artist’s Way, facilitated by Jen Ottovegio. Reconnect with your creativity, inner voice, and sense of possibility.
Memoir Writing Workshop
This is a generative memoir writing workshop. Your teacher Nick will talk about some ways of organizing our thoughts around memoir and offer some structural ideas, then we'll try two or three prompts to facilitate some fresh new writing we're excited about.
Portland Songwriters Week Kick Off Party and Showcase
Join the Portland Songwriters Guild for their Songwriters Week kickoff, featuring MAITA, The Apricots, and Margaret Wehr.
Soul Tarot for Companioning
Soul Tarot for Companioning is a two-part workshop that explores the cards through the lens of radical presence and companioning, one that can provide a sense of anchoring, as opposed to a fix or a resolution to our issues.
Breathwork Metamorphosis: Exploring the Five Gates of Grief
Join Madrone Kalil of Taproot Journeys for a five-part Breathwork Metamorphosis immersive series inspired by Francis Weller's Five Gates of Grief.
Movement To Stillness
A simple, four-part practice to move from energy to ease. We’ll begin with gentle shaking to loosen tension, shift into movement that allows you to honor how you feel in the moment, then settle into a quiet meditation practice and an optional deeply restful lie-down.
You Are Not Alone with Chris Williams
You Are Not Alone is an evening of true personal stories, shared reflection, and community connection. This special night’s theme is “What Really Happens in the Dark?”
Open House & Community Care Gathering
Open and free to all community members, this daylong celebration will include live music, age-inclusive activities, refreshments, and opportunities for education, connection, and resource sharing.
Somatic Breathwork With Aaron Robinson
Somatic Breathwork is a powerful, embodied experience that awakens the body’s natural capacity to heal and transform. By using the breath as a catalyst, we engage directly with the nervous system and emotional body, allowing us to release stagnant energy stored from unresolved experiences.
Alchemy Of Summer: A Fire Element Workshop
This two-hour workshop is part of a five-session series marking the turning of each season through the lens of Chinese medicine and Daoist philosophy. Each gathering weaves together teaching, qigong movement, journaling, and guided meditation.
DoubleBlind + OHMA Present: Listening Beyond
An intimate evening of multidimensional music and psychedelic discourse as virtuosic multi-instrumentalists Hailey Niswanger and Mia Garcia of OHMA team up with DoubleBlind magazine.
Interested in Hosting an Offering at The Lantern?
We offer programming that bolsters our infrastructure for connection and grief support. We invite both ongoing and one-time partnerships and would love to hear from you. Please submit a partnership proposal through our application link. If you are interested in hosting your next event at The Lantern please complete our rental form and our team will be in touch with next steps.