Tending the Grief Garden

In this workshop we will explore The Grief House’s five philosophies through engaging our own story and the memories we carry from each of those stories. Over the course of five weeks, we will use creative and personal writing, as well as mindfulness exercises, to build our capacities to metabolize grief. Despite how it is often depicted and discussed, writing is a social activity, with a solitary component– and that is the balance we strive to strike in this workshop series.

January 21: We hold space for grief from all kinds of loss, including, but not limited to loss via death. Writing Project: closed form poetry, sestina

January 28: We work to support each other from places of differing losses. We need not have the same source of loss to support each other. Writing Project: letters to the lost

February 4: We understand that grief can show up in many…