Grief Studio this Wednesday
What to bring & zoom link inside!
If you missed our last studio, or joined us but wished for more time sinking into it.... I've decided to extend our grief studios by a half hour AND continue our exploration of the Death tarot card and making life/feeding the miraculous in decay and the ruins of capitalism because... it continues to be incredibly relevant (and because those who shared feedback shared they wished there had been more time!).
Our November Grief Studio is this Wednesday, November 13th, from 6-8pm eastern time. Find more details below on the structure and what to bring!
Structure for Grief Studios*:
Welcome & Grounding
Small group discussion
Intention Setting for your creative practice
Creative Exploration/Studio time: Undirected, parallel play/creative exploration using whatever mediums/materials you feel called to, with the understanding that all of life can be lived as art, and that our artmaking gets to be a practice of attunement to ourselves and the world around us. Studio time can include anything from painting, collaging, dusting off your apothecary shelves, making tea, making music, rearranging your room, casting a spell, cooking a meal, or simply laying down and allowing yourself to rest as a creative practice…
Reflection: Set aside time to free-write/reflect on your creative process, and witness and dialogue with your own art/creative process as if it were animate and speaking to you.
Witnessing one another: Time to share our art and reflections with one another, without the intentions to critique or comment. Here we are simply in the magic of witness - hearing ourselves share, feeling ourselves be heard and received by one another.
Sessions (not including break out rooms!) will be recorded for those unable to make them live ✨
*This structure is adapted from the lineage of the Jewish Studio Process, whose two year Creative Facilitator Training Fellowship I am currently in and deeply grateful for!
What to bring:
🕯️💐Set the space: Please find a comfortable, quiet place for our meeting. Set this space for yourself in any way that feels most supportive for you, whether bringing in pillows, candles, flowers, photos of any of your beloved dead, drawing a tarot card, creating an altar of some kind, bringing in scents and textures you enjoy, or simply making sure you have a spacious and comfortable space.
🍉🫖Bring nourishment: Please bring water, tea, any beverages, fruits, or snacks you'd like to bring for our time together.
🎨📒Bring art supplies, a pen and paper or something to write with, or if there is a more pleasurable or accessible form of reflection you like to do, bring materials for that…Markers, colored pencils, paints, collaging supplies, your phone to record voice memos... There will be time set aside to free-write/create/reflect using whichever mediums work best for you.
🧚♀️🌊Disrupt perfectionism and come as you are. You do not need to be "on" in order to show up to this space. Let however you're arriving be enough.