• Episode 3: How Creative Expression Helps Us During Times of Grief and Loss

  • Jan 28 2025
  • Length: 25 mins
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Episode 3: How Creative Expression Helps Us During Times of Grief and Loss

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  • In this episode, we explore how creative expression helps us process and navigate loss in a meaningful way. Dr. Jan hosts special guest Christine Hiester, a spiritual director and grief companion, and the creator/teacher of a new class offered by The Metta Center, Translating Our Grief: Creativity as a Language for Exploring Experiences of Loss.* Christine is a musician and self-taught artist who has guided creative and contemplative workshops and retreats for 15 years.

    Topics of discussion include:
    -Why we might want to tap into our creativity when we are grieving or while in mourning
    -Why creativity be more effective than other methods of catharsis
    -What forms of creative expression are helpful
    -Why you don't need to be an artist to be creative
    - Why words have limits that other creative languages move beyond
    -How the languages of color, shape, form, movement, sound, and imagery, each employ a unique vocabulary of expression for our grief and pain
    -How each of us can begin to tap into our unique creativity to better express our feelings of grief and loss

    *This course is offered each January through The Metta Center. For updated information visit: https://www.mettacentertraining.com/upcoming-trainings.html
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