Holiday wishes from The Creative Grief Studio
If you haven't already joined us over at our Holiday Photography Challenge, you are invited now to join us for the second week of it. See the invitation here, and we'll be looking for your shares via the hashtag over on Instagram. To get printable version of the above...
Holiday gift: a photography challenge
Sometimes in the face of grief experiences, we can continue on with whatever holiday traditions we've celebrated in the past. But sometimes, this new life in the face of loss pushes us to create new traditions, pushes us to find new ways to express the ranges of...
HIV/AIDS, grief, and culture in the Kenyan Luo community
Meet Gordon Nyabade We were so pleased to welcome our first Kenyan into our community of students of Creative Grief Support! Gordon Nyabade, from Kenya in Africa, joined our September 2016 class. We’re delighted to have awarded Gordon with a Creative Grief Studio...
Refuse to vanish… grief and social support
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Poetry for creative expression of grief
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...
Running as therapy, grief rules for widows, and children as experts
Running as therapy We loved learning about psychotherapist, Sepideh Saremi’s, approach of combining running with therapy. What a great way to combine physical exercise and care for the body with supportive conversations. Of course some clients won’t be fit enough to...
Certified Alum, Rob Halfyard, says…
"After years of seeking to upgrade my coaching credentials, I finally found what I was looking for! This program is totally interactive and provided me with the best creative tools I have found to coach clients through loss and grief. Since I completed the Creative...
There’s no “one-size-fits-all” way through grief…
The Crafting of Grief book is one of our prescribed readings in the Studio's Creative Grief Support Certification Course. We cherish it because Hedtke and Winslade really appreciate that grief experiences are diverse, and they each that there is no universal way to...
Pioneering scriptotherapy in Nigeria
Here at The Creative Grief Studio We have alumni who’ve joined our past classes from Finland, Belgium, United Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. And yet, the majority of our alumni hail from the USA and Canada. Knowing that grief is...
Writing and grief…
Kevin Young put together this beautiful collection of poetry exploring grief and loss after having his own personal grief experiences. We find so much of this work to be poignant, getting to the heART of the matter creatively, exploring grief using the metaphor of...