Online Creative Grief Support: A Life Raft for the Holidays with Kylee Gies

We are approaching the Holiday season, which inevitably can resurface grief within ourselves

and the narratives that accompany its wild untamed nature.

Even though we desire the communal joy of The Holidays, it can pull heavily on our heart

strings as we feel into rising emotions such as loss, sadness, longing, isolation,

misunderstanding, and much more. Grief is a universal experience. You don’t have to suffer

and journey through it alone, especially during The Holidays.

“Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing.” ~ Sobonfu Some

It is my heart’s desire that this creative deep dive will enter your heart and encourage you to

keep leaning in and to optimize the sacredness of grief in your personal journey through

expressive arts modalities that reach beyond words. We will co-create a life raft that will offer

you support, self-healing tools, and community. You may even find these resources and

techniques as a source of continued healing and upliftment moving forward.

This program is a six-week online creative grief support experience. The container will be a

maximum of 8 participants. The small group journey will keep our sacred circle intimate and

spacious each time we gather. We will meet once a week to connect, to share, to educate

ourselves, and to support one another as we navigate all that comes with The Holidays season.

What will you get out of this Creative Grief Support:

- A  safe space to openly and freely express your grief in a creative way

- A sense of belonging and understanding

- New acquired self-healing tools to support yourself with love and compassion

- Inspired creative juices to do heART work and to cultivate meaning in your life

- Opportunities to make mind-body connections through meditation, movement, breath, and sound

- Gain a sense of agency over something that can feel out of your control

- Connect with community and experience freedom and a sense of being seen and heard

* Each session will incorporate useful meditations, poetry, and love. Instructions will be given at the end of each session for an at home creative grief activity to do during the week and to share with each other the following session.

Includes:

Six zoom sessions, grief literatures, tools and resources, and poetry.

Grief Doula guidance, with utmost care and tendence with love.

Pacific Time

Week 1:  Nov 28,   Tuesdays, 6:30 PM  - 8:30 PM

Week 2:  Dec 5        

Week 3:  Dec 12

Week 4:  Dec. 19

 

Week 6:  Dec 28,    Thursdays, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Week 7:  Jan 4,      

* I am open to pivoting to Thurs. with group consensus

Facilitator's Bio:

Kylee's Gies

Kylee is a certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner and owner of Sacred Dwelling LLC. She is also certified in Grief Movement Therapy. After the loss of her son, Oliver, she has been following the calling to support others’ grief journeys. Kylee studied Aikido for ten years and is a life-long learner & practitioner of yoga, mindfulness/meditation, along with facilitating emotional growth programs. She formerly worked in the field of International Education as an Advisor and Field Instructor. She holds space with love and compassion while providing expressive therapeutic modalities that encompass meaning-making, integration, creative exploration, and growth. She works with individuals one on one and facilitates grief circles and workshops that focus on ritual therapeutics, ceremony, creativity, and Earth based healing.