The Creative Grief Studio

Looking for connection in your grief support work? Join us today at 1 PM Pacific for Studio Hour: Conversations for Grief Workers. A relaxed space to share, listen, and feel supported. Free to attend, registration required: https://creativegriefstudio.com/short-courses/

We call our alumni Practitioners, not graduates. Kara says it often: it's a practice, not a perfect. No one finds the one right way to grieve or to support grief. There is only practice, again and again.
https://open.substack.com/pub/creativegriefstudio/p/practitioners-who-reflect-and-edit

Grief doesn't happen just inside a person. It happens in a social world. The voices around us, the cultural scripts we've internalized, the rules we absorbed without ever examining them. All of it shapes how people grieve and how they make meaning after a loss.

The latest post on the CGS Substack looks at three things every grief practitioner needs to understand: the social forces shaping grief, what happens when the relational landscape fractures after a loss, and the relationships that continue long after someone dies.

Read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/creativegriefstudio/p/meaning-making-is-not-a-solo-act