As we continue to navigate difficult times, the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET) and Community Health and Well-Being will be hosting a series of Thriving Classrooms workshops focused on Coping, Healing, & Liberation in Grief Work and Engaging Across Difference. Workshops will start Fridays in February and continue throughout the semester. Distinct sessions will be held for faculty/staff and students. Join us with your questions, curiosity and open heartedness for a more full expression of our capacity to heal and grow with one another.

Coping, Healing, & Liberation in Grief Work

Presented by Jennie Knott, LICSW

Program description:

As we continue to navigate difficult times, we must not lose the plot of what it means to be human, and fully alive. These grief sessions are an invitation into developing a practice and capacity for being with and expressing the many different shapes of grief as the most normal, necessary and human response to trauma and loss. The series will begin with a teaching session followed by experiential sessions. The teaching session is not a prerequisite to attend the experiential sessions, though doing so would be a great primer and is strongly encouraged.

Goals:

• Introduce a framework for grief work based off of the work of Fancis Weller’s, The Wild Edge of Sorrow and Martin Prechtel’s The Smell of Rain on Dust that will help frame the experiential sessions
• Differentiate between unmetabolized grief and diagnoses such as depression or anxiety/panic Clarify difference(s) between coping, healing, and liberation
• Provide opportunities to engage in The 5 Gates of Grief utilizing The Artists' Grief Deck

Teaching Session: Friday, February 2 (In Person)

Huntington Studio, DMC, 3rd floor

10:00-11:30am Faculty & Staff

1:00-2:30pm Students

Register by Monday, January 29

Experiential Sessions (In Person / Virtual)

10:00-11:30am Faculty & Staff

1:00-2:30pm Students

Register by Monday, February 5
 

• Friday, February 9: “Everything we love, we will lose”
• Friday, February 16: “Places that have not know love” [where we carry shame]
• Friday, February 23: “Loss of Expectations” [what we expected, and did not receive]
• Friday, March 1: Ancestral Grief

We invite all MassArt faculty, staff, and students to join us.

Please complete the registration form so that facilitators can plan accordingly and we can ensure the most welcoming experience for everyone.

Questions? jet@massart.edu

Sponsored by the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET), Community Health & Well-Being, and Student Development