Steps to Peace & Acceptance
The heart of the suggested steps to Peace & Acceptance is contained in these steps describing the experience of grieving widows and widowers.
Meetings focus on working through the steps, often in a repeating pattern as more learning is revealed to us on our journey. There is often no linear progression.
The steps can be summarised as follows:
- 1I turned up [more]
- 2I acknowledged I have emotions [more]
- 3I accepted my emotions [more]
- 4I acknowledged emotional conflict [more]
- 5I accepted emotional conflict [more]
- 6I acknowledged “I” as a unique individual [more]
- 7I accepted and found “I” as a unique individual [more]
- 8I acknowledged the future [more]
- 9I accepted the future [more]
- 10I planned for my future [more]
- 11I accepted that what happened is part of what made me the person I am today [more]
- 12I acknowledged there is only now [more]
- 13I accept “now” [more]