Tending to Grief Art Circle

Would love to have you join our Grief Tending Art Circle today 2/8 at 4pm ET!

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You can register here, donations are much appreciated and can be made through venmo @gazitchayankosi.

Come join us for a time of tending to and through our grief through creative expression, tending to grief is allowing our nervous system to acknowledge the loss which keeps us in defense and survival states and through that acknowledgment allowing our grief to alchemize back into life, creation and possibility.

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“This situation is messed up. What can I make from it?” Martha Beck

This is a great episode on the breakdown of our society and how art is the thing to facilitate the opening up of possibilities! In her book, The Way of Integrity, she talks about The Empowerment Dynamic created by David Emerald, "And in the most empowering shift of all, Emerald suggests that victims become “creators.” Where victims believe “This situation is unbearable and I’m helpless,” creators ask themselves, “This situation is messed up. What can I make from it?” Remember, creativity is the opposite of violence, which is pure destruction. If we can find any way to see ourselves as creators, no matter what our situation, we can turn drama triangles into empowerment dynamics."

So as we burn together on this planet, the two things that feel possible are grief and art. We will sit in our grief, not trying to push it away or resolve it, but allowing ourselves to be in it together and when it doesn't make sense we will create.

It could be collaging with old magazines, or sewing a scrap of fabric, you don't need any fancy supplies, a piece of junk mail and a pen, maybe some scissors and glue or an old pairless sock and a needle and thread, we will grieve and we will create.

Supportive resources:

- Peter Levine on Sadness and Grief​

​- Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril​

- Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs​

- This is Body Grief by Jayne Mattingly​

- Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl ​

So looking forward to being in creative community with you as we tend to our grief! xo, z

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