Short Course Preview of our Certification in Creative Grief Support

Brought to you by our Creative Grief Studio Team & Guest Faculty, this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

This SHORT COURSE version of the Creative Grief Support Certification Program is meant to be an in-depth preview of the full certification course, including multiple samples of theory content, experientials, video demonstrations and more. You will see a preview of every module of the full 4-month course, but your access via this SHORT COURSE gives you access to only one or two activities per module. We hope this gives you a more full picture of what you’ll be experiencing if you should apply to do the full program whether on the Content Only track or for Certification. Please note that this preview version of the course is 100% self-directed and self-paced. You’ll get access to the full 16 week Preview upon registration, and then you can take your time, on your own schedule and pace, to explore the materials shared.

$200
Please note that if you apply and are accepted to the Full Certification Course after taking this Short Course version, we will apply your $200 paid fee from this Short Course to your Full Course tuition.

Facilitating Re-membering Conversations When Relationships Were Challenging, Abusive, or Troublesome, or When the Death Was Challenging

Taught by Dr Lorraine Hedtke (MSW, LCSW, Ph.D. & Author), this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

Drawing from narrative therapy, re-membering conversations are a conversational way to facilitate comfort for people who are grieving the death of a loved one, by making meaning that is supportive. Often, this means relocating stories so the deceased continue to have a place in the on-going lives of the living. However, when relationships are complex, painful or even abusive, we need to create a different kind of support for those who are grieving. This is also true when the nature of the death was very difficult.

$65

Monthly Happy Hour for Death + Grief Workers

Hosted on Ruzuku + Zoom by CGS Team Members. Free but registration required.
First Friday of each month at 1pm Pacific.

As Creative Grief Practitioners ourselves, we’ve been talking about how hard these pandemic years have hit us. We thought to maybe open a once-a-month, free range, space to clink coffee cups and check in with each other as humans. We don’t have a particular agenda for our meet ups. This is a very improv kind of vibe, holding space for whatever is alive in the moment for each of us. If there is an “aim” with our Happy Hours, it is to have us all feel support and connection even as we navigate the difficult stuff of our personal and professional lives! Bring your coffee or tea cup and join us on the First Friday of each month!

Free, but registration required.

Creative Grieving 101: an on-demand heARTfull support

Taught by Kara LC Jones (Studio Co-founder) , this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

How do we stay creative while grieving? Or how can we use creativity to navigate grief experiences? This course offers you lots of creative prompts to explore. You are invited to respond to creative prompts in any medium such as writing, visual art, photography, or whatever way you like. Let’s begin finding our way and tending our hearts!

This is an on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get the 4 weeks of prompts drip fed with space to communicate your experiences with the facilitator. Click button below to get full details.

$29

27 Days To Investigate Grief

Taught by Kara LC Jones (Studio Co-founder) , this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

You are invited to spend 27 days exploring creative ways to investigate your grief experiences. Grief can be many things for each of us. Overwhelming. Confounding. Breaking our hearts open. And more. The creative prompts offered in this self-directed course are aimed at giving you an opportunity to enact a different approach to your relationship with grief experiences. In the prompts, we’re personifying grief as if they were a character we are interacting with in life, and each prompt asks you to investigate this character. You are welcome to respond in whatever medium you might like.

$27

10 Days of Body + Grief Exploration: on my mind, in my hands

Taught by Kara LC Jones (Studio Co-founder) , this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

In this session, we offer you 10 days of guided audio to allow you to curiously explore the relationship between the body and grief. Examples of creative response are offered, and you are invited to respond in any medium you like writing, visual art, photography, or whatever way you like.

This is an on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get the 10 prompts drip fed in 24 hour increments with space to communicate your experiences with our facilitators. Click button below to get full details.

$29

Poetry Basics for expressing grief experiences

Taught by Kara LC Jones (Studio Co-founder) , this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

Give your writing practice some time and attention. Join us for this Poetry Basics to use during grief experiences on-demand course! You are invited to spend 6 weeks in this ecourse to explore Poetry basics that you can then use to explore your grief experiences. While we writers can be very solo beings, sometimes it is helpful to have space to share and connection to keep us inspired in both the writing and the grieving process. This creative grief poetry session will have weekly prompts, plus the added benefit of an online classroom space, open 24/7 where you can share, and communicate at any time along the way.

$29

Chronic Illness Creatives

Taught by Christine Grothe and Kara LC Jones (Studio Co-founder) , this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy ANY TIME.

Being chronically ill doesn’t mean you stop being a writer or artist or whatever kind of creative you are. So we invite you to read, write, make heART in this self-paced community as a way of continuing and sharing your practice with like-minded others.

This is a 4-week, on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get 4 weeks of materials drip fed with space to communicate your experiences with our facilitators. Click button below to get full details.

$47