Grief support practitioners who practice
by Kara Jones | Feb 6, 2018 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
Practitioners, not coaches There’s a reason why we’ve chosen to call our alumni “Practitioners” rather than coaches … it’s a great reminder of the nature of our profession. We’re always in practice. There’s the old adage, “Practice makes perfect.” Though we doubt...
Grief isn’t just in the head
by Kara Jones | Jan 15, 2018 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
Modern Western approaches to grief There are of course many different approaches to counselling and coaching out there, each seeking to understand and support through their own lenses or set of theories about how the world is, what causes different problems, and what...
Poetry for creative expression of grief
by Kara Jones | Nov 13, 2017 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
So many different creative mediums Often when we speak of using creativity in grief support, people assume that we mean painting and drawing. While the visual arts are one very accessible way of employing creativity (especially painting and drawing, but there are many...Articles
- Give the Gift of Creative Grief Support
- What’s In Each Module of the CGS Certification Course?
- What do you mean the course is both theory and experiential based?
- Is this course for personal or professional development?
- Is this course just about visual artmaking?
- How do I market my work after the course is finished
- How exactly does the certification course work?
- Do CGS tools apply to 1:1 and group support?
- Why is creativity important in grief experiences?
- It’s a practice, not a perfect…
- Grief Literacy – Start With Yourself
- Finding Community at the CGS Happy Hour
- Meeting Grief: Unmet Needs During the Pandemic Years
- Lingering in the In-between
- Aiming for equity and balance: an updated pay structure for Certification.
- Happy Hour for Death + Grief Workers…you are invited!
- Five New Self-Study Courses for You!
- We Have A Short Course Too!
- IG Live and Application Deadline Extended to Feb 18…
- Join us tomorrow on Instagram Live!
- What is the Creative Grief Studio?
- Learning as invention and curiosity
- Thank you all so very much!
- The Creative Grief Studio Bids “Farewell” to Co-Founder, Cath Duncan
- Co-regulation, children’s books, and the nuances of suicidality
- Culture
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Gwen Suesse says…
- Loneliness, the pain of feeling nothing, and validating bereaved fathers’ grief
- Inclusive
- Who are your grief support session notes for?
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Jess Ryan says…
- Session Notes
- Existential pain, isolation, and prison hospice
- Living With Grief: Contributing Author Interview with Kara Jones + Book Giveaway
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Elizabeth Berrien says…
- What if you made humility central to your grief support approach?
- Narrative Humility
- Who do you think you are?
- Expanding definitions of grief and the grief support we can offer
- Non-Death Loss
- Another Podcast: Kara Jones, Studio Co-Founder, on To Grieve
- Adoption grief, continuing bonds, and adoption support resources
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Deb Brandt says…
- Podcasts: Spotlight Interview with Kara Jones, Studio Co-Founder, on Grief Out Loud
- Guest Post: Embodied Grief by Janice Lodato
- Want to know more about our Certification Program?
- “Positive fighter” narratives, social support, and silenced stories
- Is it solitude or loneliness?
- Our Values
- Solitude and lonely
- The challenges of fear after loss
- Fears subsequent to loss
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Carla Harvey says…
- The answers don’t matter
- Silence that kills, illustrations that bring new life, and grieving the loss of sex
- Light up the ANDspace: a holiday kit from all of us here at The Creative Grief Studio
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Katherine McCarron says…
- Process of answering
- Exploring the parallel universe of loss and grief
- Difficult emotions, midlife unraveling, and oscillating grief
- Parallel universe and strange realms
- This isn’t the Grief Olympics
- Knitting, cemetery picnics, and eco-friendly deaths
- Spotlight Interview: Connections between empathy and creativity with Seung Chan Lim
- Creative Grief Support Alum Priyanka Bhatia says…
- It’s all relative
- Nobody grieves alone
- Guest Post: Re-Membering, Creativity and Ritual by Deb Brandt
- Grief and community
- Podcasts: Spotlight Interview with Carol Miller, LCSW
- Social injustice and grief, and the strength of African grandmothers and Welsh mountains
- Exploring grief experiences within their kinship systems
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Heidi Jackson, says…
- Lasting Words: Author Interview + Book Giveaway
- Individuality and kinship systems
- What works when it isn’t working?
- Give Up Your Idea
- More Than Individual Experiences
- Illustrating grief, trauma, healing, and donating vision after loss
- Creative Grief Support Alum Althea Banda-Hansmann, says…
- Healing Through the Chaos: Author Interview + Book Giveaway
- What to do with all that love after a death
- Booster Shot To Living
- Hollowed Heart: Author Interview and Book Giveaway
- Relearning Our World
- Straight talk, stress reduction, and trauma repair
- “Reiki Healing Energy” ebook – giveaway + interview
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner, Dale Lang, says…
- Community, recognition, and respect…
- Shame resilience in grief
- “The Widow’s Journal” – giveaway + interview
- Agency in the grief experience…
- Capturing agency after loss
- Superpowers of anxiety, perils of advice, and how men die
- “Squire & Daniel” – grief book giveaway + interview
- Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner, Sofia Plonski, says…
- Creativity as co-therapist…
- Grief support practitioners who practice
- Creative grief support for groups
- Grief and cognition…
- Grief isn’t just in the head
- Loss of sex, honest responses, and benefits of unhappiness
- Book review: Life Is Like The Wind
- Certified Alum, Barb Schipper, says…
- Holiday wishes from The Creative Grief Studio