Creative Grief: Reimagining Relationship After Loss

Grief changes us. We can’t go back to who we were before loss. So what can we create now?

Join mindfulness, hypnosis, and somatic practitioners Grace Bezaire and Ashley McKenzie for an afternoon of creative, embodied grief work. Together, we’ll explore what becomes possible when we stop asking how to move on and start getting curious about how our relationship with a loved one can continue to evolve.

Using gentle mindfulness and somatic practices to create a foundation of safety, we’ll move into guided reflection, imagination, creative exercises, and optional sharing. We’ll explore questions like:

• What is possible in death that wasn’t possible in life?

• How might your loved one’s values, passions, wisdom, or essence continue to shape what you create?

• What would it look like to create alongside their memory rather than simply remember them?

Grounded in neuroscience and informed by our combined backgrounds in mindfulness, clinical hypnosis, somatic practice, nervous system regulation, and group facilitation, this workshop invites us to approach grief with curiosity, creativity, and connection.

No artistic experience is required—just a willingness to explore. Expect a space that is thoughtful, playful, and welcoming, where grief can be witnessed not only through remembering, but through making, imagining, and creating something new.

Space is intentionally limited to foster warmth, safety, and connection. All materials are included in the fee. Break and refreshments will also be provided.

What if your grief has something it wants to make?

* Payment details will be sent upon registration submission.

Corporate Consulting: Keeping Spaces Safer in Offerings of Mindfulness

The world is in high gear in online offerings, whether for professionals, clients/patients, or general public. Mindfulness is increasingly being offered in this space, too. However, on-site does not translate seamlessly to online. So the question becomes: How do we keep this container safer?

It can be unsafe for those who become triggered into such difficult emotions from an insight that arrives without warning and can shut a person down emotionally or rev them up into agitation. It may not just pass in a short time, or on its own: A visit to a therapist may be needed. We cannot predict the impact we may have through a meditation given with compassion, a presentation we are sharing with passion, or a discussion which seems engaging and exciting.

Mindfulness practitioners have a sense of what might be triggering and what may be frankly unsafe in online public forums, therapeutic groups, and “drop in” formal practice sessions open to anyone. Safety, however, may be a new consideration for those organizing such events.

There are strategies to keep audiences safer, such being well-trained as a facilitator, aware of trauma-informed languaging as a presenter, registering participants even for public forums, and obtaining insurance to protect those delivering these well-meaning offerings.

At NNC, we can help review what is planned and advise on how to increase safety.

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