SHORT COURSES
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SELF-STUDY COURSES…

For Creating a Grief Literate World

Raise your Grief Literacy Levels today by taking one of our Short Courses. All of the following course are provided on-demand, self-paced, and with the full support of an online classroom to provide you space to access the materials and learn as you go. Start exploring your grief experiences creatively now!

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.

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Free Monthly Studio 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.

Studio Hour is a free, come-as-you-are gathering for anyone offering grief support. Whether you’re an alum of our Certification Course or a grief worker curious about the Creative Grief Studio, this is a space to connect with peers, share stories, ask questions, or simply listen in. We have no particular agenda nor requirements for attendance. Our Studio Hours are open to alumni of the Certification Course who want on-going support, but also to any Grief Worker who might want to get more information about the Studio or just be with other Grief Workers to share experiences and ideas. You are welcome to come, ask questions, share stories or just silently listen in if you like. Our aim with these meet ups is just to create a holding space where we might connect, answer questions, and feel a bit of support around all the things we juggle, personally and professionally, as death and grief workers.

Free, but registration required.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Q: How will I get the course materials and online classroom access?
After you complete your registration payment, you will be forwarded to log into the Ruzuku platform to become a member of the course. You’ll access all course materials on the Ruzuku.com platform.
I got one free short course through my Substack Subscription. How do I claim it?

Please find one of the Short Courses listed above that is valued at $50 or less that you’d like to take. Then email us at admin at creativegriefstudio dot com and let us know which one you’ve chosen and what email address you’d like to use to access the course. We’ll then send you an invite from the Ruzuku platform to sign up using that email address to access that particular short course for free. Thanks!

Q: How do I get information about any in-person components of the course for which I registered?
All information about the course will show up inside your Ruzuku online classroom page. If there is an in-person component to your course, you’ll find when, where, how all shared in the online classroom materials.
Q: How will I participate in the online classroom?
You will need a computer and an internet connection. You will be directed to create a login for the private learning area after you have completed your course registration and payment. The classroom “Lessons” including discussion threads are inside the private learning area, which will become available to you upon completion of registration.
Q: There is something wrong with Ruzuku.com and I can’t get my username and password to work?
Because Ruzuku.com is a popular platform and many teachers host courses there, your account with them is set up to allow you access to any Ruzuku.com course you register for, not just Creative Grief Studio courses. For privacy reasons, we cannot therefore see your username, password, Ruzuku account information. While we can help you with issues related to our classrooms, we cannot help you with the overall Ruzuku account you create to access those classrooms. For this reason, if you have tech issues, please contact support@ruzuku.com with any questions or concerns.
Q: Can I get a refund?
It depends on the type of short course you’ve purchased. 1) If you’ve purchased a short course that happens online, there are no refunds because from the moment you register, you get the entire course. Even if you can’t attend the live call session of an online course, it is recorded and given to you as course material, so you miss nothing. 2) If however, you have purchased an in-person short course, the refund policy will depend on the details of that course, needs for registration to fill or not, date confirmation needs to be given to location venue, etc. See your individual course information for details on refund policy.
Q: I have other questions you haven’t covered!

Cool. Email Tamara at admin@creativegriefstudio.com and she’ll be happy to help!

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