21/09/2025
The Widowed Sing is just 2 weeks away! Sophie Garner is our amazing choir leader for the day and she looks after us so well, coaxing an incredible sound out of a group which only meets that morning. We’re not singers, we’re all widowed and that creates an incredible bond.
If you’re widowed come and join us in Cambridge on Saturday 4 October - details and booking at https://www.cambridgewidows.com/thewidowedsing
Or if you know someone who is widowed please share
In two weeks I get to be in the privileged and humbling position of leading The widowed Sing choir with Cambridge Widows. This is one of the three songs I will be teaching to a huge room of beautiful humans.
This will mark the 3rd year of being the co facilitator of this one day workshop. Teaching 3 songs to a huge group of women and men resulting in a performance for friends family and going live on social media.
But it's more than that, it's an ever building family. It's a day of women and men too coming together in shared grief. The day is very very very emotional and I am the elephant in the room. The only person who hasn't experienced the grief of not having my life partner in my life anymore.
Predictably, it's my favourite 'workshop day' to lead of everything I do because all my work is heart led and that has to be at the centre of all that I commit to.
It takes me two days to recover after facilitating because it is such an emotional investment and a huge amount of brain power and energy output for me taking people from zero to choir here in just one day.
But I get high on challenges, you grown when you sign up to challenges. Coasting through life with the predictable is not living, it's now how we learn about what we are capable of. I grow every single time I facilitate this monumental day.
As leaders we have an end goal in sight and there's something very frightening about that even when you are a leading expert in your craft and know your teaching like the back of your hand inside and out. It's that fear that keeps my feet on the ground. In uncertainty we stay humble, ever questioning and learning we don't know what we don't know about ourselves. I'm always learning always questioning myself and everything and everyone.
When you stop doing this your ego is leading the way and that's a dangerous place to live.
When you throw yourself into the lions den with fear but trust that endorphin rush is everything I love about the work I do.
Keane
Cambridge Widows
