SHORT COURSES

for professional or personal development

 

Explore grief support and creative training at your own pace with our on-demand short courses. Whether you’re seeking continuing education or personal creative grief exploration, these self-paced, drip fed courses offer flexible learning in expressive arts and contemporary grief approaches.

 

SELF-STUDY, ON-DEMAND COURSES…

For Creating a Grief Literate World

Raise your Grief Literacy Levels today by taking one of our on-demand grief support courses. Start exploring the conjunction of grief + creativity now!

      • If you are Alumni looking for your check-in series post-certification, please see the Alumni Classroom under the Meetings icon for next quarterly check-in dates and submission page for content you want covered.
      • If you are a previous Open Studio Hour participant, we’ll be meeting in the existing series thru Dec 2026. We’ll soon have information for a new series that Lori will be hosting in 2027 that will replace the Open Studio Hour. We’ll email you inside the original Open Studio Hour room with details!

Creative Solutions for Workplace Grief: Navigating Productivity and Compassion

Brought to you by the Creative Grief Studio and Tamara Beachum LLC, this self-study, on-demand, online course is available for you to register and enjoy any time.

This course offers practical tools and frameworks for HR professionals, managers, and grief support practitioners who want to respond to workplace grief with both competence and compassion. Drawing on contemporary grief theory and real workplace case studies, it addresses the full range of losses employees carry — not just death — and the cultural norms that too often get in the way of genuine support.

The course covers grief literacy, social location, the tension between productivity and compassion, manager response in the immediate aftermath of loss, grief-inclusive policies, and the creative approaches that make a real difference. Reflective prompts throughout invite you to apply what you are learning to your own workplace context.

This course is 100% self-directed and self-paced. Upon registration, you’ll get immediate access to all materials to explore on your own schedule.

$99

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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.

$49

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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.

$49

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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.

$49

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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.

$49

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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.

$55

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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 send us a Subscriber Chat over on Substack 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. Send a text message to Kara at 928-225-5416.

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