Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Chantal – You don’t have to be an artist to take part in art therapy

Chantal explains that you don’t have to be an artist to participate in art therapy and acutally if you have less art experience you will enjoy it more.

Cheryl – “My story”

Cheryl talks about her daughter’s organ donations.

Janice – “Grieving as long as you need to grieve”

Janice talks about her personal grief experiences and understanding the need for grieving as long as you need to.

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

Janice – “It’s never too late to grieve”

Janice talks about the importance of noticing feelings.

Chantal – Grief and art therapy group

Chantal talks about the honour of being witness to other peoples story and exploration of grief and art therapy

Rev. Sky – “Yearning”

Rev. Sky discusses yearning and how it’s OK to feel those emotions.

Maureen – Holiday Traditions

Maureen talks about anticipating a holiday and considering honouring a loved one

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Janice- “Stay with feelings”

Janice talks about how feelings can be buried and how working through them can help.

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Madelyn – The power of music

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories