Talk To The Hand - Grief Processing with Puppets
Mon, Jun 02
|Portland
This offering pairs guided breathwork with puppet play to embody and converse with the different faces of our grief.
When & Where
Jun 02, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Portland, 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203, USA
What
We will gather & play at The Grief House with Chelsea Biagioli for an embodied breath and puppet practice.
Puppet play is an opportunity to offer the many facets of our grief actual bodies that can be seen, moved and comforted. Puppets are colorful, animated transformational creatures - they're happy to share the weight of our emotions. They offer us permission and encouragement to genuinely look at and hear parts of ourselves that might often feel overlooked, hidden, shy or ashamed.
We will start our time together with a guided practice intended to help us come into relationship with our complex, varied grief creatures - to see and respond to their sticky/self-conscious/thorny/abrupt/direct selves and also with our own wise self - the part of us that sees our hurt bits and can hold them well and kindly.
Next, there will be an invitation to start an actual, out-loud dialogue between…