Description
WINTERING: The Art of Living With Loss
A five-day Art Heals Grief Gathering exploring how we continue to remember, experience, carry, integrate, and live alongside grief.
DAY 1:REMAINS
Theme: Continuing Bonds & Memory (Poetry & Collage)
We will explore what remains after loss…the memories, relationships, stories, objects, traditions, and pieces of ourselves that continue. The focus is not on letting go, but recognizing how love and connection can endure in different forms.
DAY 2: EMBODIED
Theme: The Body’s Experience of Grief (Poetry & Collage)
We will explore how grief is experienced and expressed through the body through sensation, emotion, exhaustion, tension, movement, and instinct and consider what our bodies may be communicating to us.
DAY 3: CARRIED
Theme: Attachment, Identity & the Weight of Grief (Poetry & Felting)
We will examine what we carry because of loss: memories, responsibilities, belongings, roles, fears, unfinished conversations, love, guilt, and identity. We will consider what we want to continue carrying and what may no longer need to be carried in the same way.
DAY 4: STORIED
Theme: Integrating Loss Into Our Life Story (Poetry & Collage)
Without forcing lessons, silver linings, or explanations onto loss, we will explore how grief changes our understanding of ourselves and our lives and how our losses can become integrated into the larger story of who we are.
DAY 5: FORWARD
Theme: Reinvestment, Hope & Continuing Life (Food & Story Share & Recipe Cards)
We will turn toward what still wants our attention, care, and participation especially around holidays. Rather than “moving on” from grief, we will explore how we can carry our losses with us while continuing to love, create, connect, hope, and live.
