This course offers ways to reclaim grief through art, using creative projects and the making process to engage emotions, honor loss, and express what words often cannot—the language of the soul. The symbolism and metaphors of the finished pieces allow us to find our own words for grief, gently challenging the silence imposed by our grief-phobic culture.

Reclaiming Keening

The art of keening and the grief focused projects form an important part of Reclaiming Keening, creating new grief rituals which involve creativity, allowing us to switch off our thoughts as we let our hands and heart work in a way which naturally help us process what we are going through. What we create can then offer both a symbolism and meaning which can then help us to explore and describe our thoughts and feelings.

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone navigating grief, whether recent or long-held.

  • Those seeking creative ways to process loss and emotions.

  • Anyone wishing to use art as a tool for healing

  • Those working in grief roles wishing to employ art in their work

Who will it help?

  • Those feeling stuck in grief or looking for a way to express emotions when you find it hard to find the words

  • Those whose involves grief work and who wish to offer a supportive and engaging creative space

  • Anyone looking for a personal or community-based activities to honor loss.

How will it help them?

  • Offers a hands-on, heart-centered and soul engaged approach to grief work

  • Provides detailed in instructions on the projects as well as ways to employ them and room for your own interpretation allowing for intuitive exploration in projects to engage with emotions

  • Encourages reflection, release, and a potential transformation through artistic expression

  • Creates a sense of connection—with oneself, lost loved ones, and/or the community you are working in

Why take this course?

  • Grief is not linear, and creative work offers a nonverbal, fluid way to navigate it

  • Art can hold what words cannot, serving as a tangible focus for memory, emotion, and healing

  • Engaging in creative rituals can deepen both personal, community and ancestral connections

  • The process fosters self-compassion and a rootedness

What will you gain from this course?

  • A collection of personally meaningful art pieces that tell a story of your grief journey

  • Practical tools and techniques for using art as an ongoing grief practice

  • A sense of engaging in your healing process

  • A supportive community to share and listen to others

Art Projects