Raise Your Grief Literacy
The workshops offered take place on a platform like Ruzuku or are sent via email. Each hosts a creative focus on our grief experiences, both death and non-death related, with the aim of helping you become more grief literate about your own experiences both personally and culturally. Most courses are offered as on-demand with drip feed of content that you are welcome to explore at your own pace. If not on-demand, then you’ll see dates of the course listed in the info. We highly recommend, if you are personally grieving, to start here with one of these workshops:
Creative Grieving 101: an on-demand heARTfull support
Enrollment open; on-demand, online; $29
How do we stay creative while grieving? Or how can we use creativity to navigate grief experiences? This course offers you lots of creative prompts to explore. You are invited to respond to creative prompts in any medium such as writing, visual art, photography, or whatever way you like. Let’s begin finding our way and tending our hearts!
This is an on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get the 4 weeks of prompts drip fed with space to communicate your experiences with the facilitator. Click button below to get full details.
27 Days To Investigate Grief
Enrollment now open, available on-demand, online; $27
You are invited to spend 27 days exploring creative ways to investigate your grief experiences. Grief can be many things for each of us. Overwhelming. Confounding. Breaking our hearts open. And more. The creative prompts offered in this self-directed course are aimed at giving you an opportunity to enact a different approach to your relationship with grief experiences. In the prompts, we’re personifying grief as if they were a character we are interacting with in life, and each prompt asks you to investigate this character. You are welcome to respond in whatever medium you might like.
10 Days of Body + Grief Exploration: on my mind, in my hands
Enrollment open; on-demand, online; $29
In this session, we offer you 10 days of guided audio to allow you to curiously explore the relationship between the body and grief. Examples of creative response are offered, and you are invited to respond in any medium you like writing, visual art, photography, or whatever way you like.
This is an on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get the 10 prompts drip fed in 24 hour increments with space to communicate your experiences with our facilitators. Click button below to get full details.
Poetry Basics for expressing grief experiences
Enrollment now open, available on-demand, online; $29
Give your writing practice some time and attention. Join us for this Poetry Basics to use during grief experiences on-demand course! You are invited to spend 6 weeks in this ecourse to explore Poetry basics that you can then use to explore your grief experiences. While we writers can be very solo beings, sometimes it is helpful to have space to share and connection to keep us inspired in both the writing and the grieving process. This creative grief poetry session will have weekly prompts, plus the added benefit of an online classroom space, open 24/7 where you can share, and communicate at any time along the way.
Chronic Illness Creatives
Enrollment open; on-demand, online; $47
Being chronically ill doesn’t mean you stop being a writer or artist or whatever kind of creative you are. So we invite you to read, write, make heART in this self-paced community as a way of continuing and sharing your practice with like-minded others.
This is a 4-week, on-demand session, so you get access to the logistics & welcome section immediately after you register. Then you get 4 weeks of materials drip fed with space to communicate your experiences with our facilitators. Click button below to get full details.
The 3 card reading detailed below is available for purchase through our site shop right here at GriefAndCreativity.com, so see the details of this item to understand more about the on-demand process, timeline, and next steps after purchase:
3 Card Creative Reading
Readings are available on-demand, online; $33
Hi! I’m Kara Jones, the host behind GriefAndCreativity.com, and it would be my pleasure to do a 3 card reading for you using my own handmade deck derived from a subset of images in the 1000 Faces art project. Please note, I am NOT a fortune nor future teller. This detailed reading will be heARTfully done with the intention of giving you some creative support and prompts to consider. Thank you, and I’m looking forward to this heARTmaking time with you!
What People Are Saying
“As an artist, taking the You Have Permission workshop was quite a stretch for me. I went into the workshop thinking, “Oh I can do anything I want, I don’t need permission to do anything.” However what I discovered was quite the opposite. Working through each session, working through each meditation, I realized I put loads of expectations upon myself and upon others. This workshop helped me understand that allowing myself to be, just the way I am, allowed me the freedom to love and accept others just the way they were, it was a real eye opener to me.”
“Kara coached me through some sticky, murky times when I grieved my father’s death. Her loving presence, her gentle questions, her insightful and creative perspectives allowed me to find a new way of being after loss. It has been truly transformative. Kara brings a light and open heart which is just the balm I needed.”
“Kara’s passion for teaching the art of creative grief and loss is incredible. She is highly skilled and rich in resources. Her kindness and curiosity encourages others to lean in toward a deeper vulnerability—tapping in to a greater understanding of our own loss, thereby increasing genuine empathy for others.”