Grief & The Creative Process: A Workshop for Post-Election Support

Grounded Grief
Nov 4, 2024
3 min read

Need Post-Election Support?

Grief = change + loss

And there is so much of that in the air right now.

On Wednesday, November 6th, join conceptual artist & musician Licity Collins and Grounded Grief founder Katherine Hatch for a 1-hour online workshop centered on their shared passion of creativity within a grief process.

When Expression Becomes Healing

In these challenging times, we invite you to discover how expression and acts of generation can be transformative tools for navigating the collective grief in our current world.

Our grief needs places to be witnessed. It aches for ways to be expressed. And sometimes, the most powerful way to tend to our grief is through creation—through making something, expressing something, generating something that didn't exist before.

What Is This Workshop?

This online workshop will provide a space for:

Discussion - Exploring how creativity intersects with grief
Sharing - Witnessing each other's experiences and expressions
Engagement - Active participation in the creative grief process
Community - Connection with others navigating similar terrain

Participants will be invited into a space that honors how acts of generation can be a defining and healing aspect of a grief journey.

Why Creativity and Grief Belong Together

When we're grieving—especially collective grief like what many of us are feeling post-election—words often fail us. Traditional processing doesn't always reach the depth of what we're experiencing.

But creativity offers another pathway:

Making art gives form to the formless
Music moves what words cannot
Writing excavates what's buried
Movement expresses what's stuck
Creating something reminds us we still have agency

Acts of generation in the face of loss are acts of resistance. They're ways of saying: "This matters. I am here. I can still make something meaningful."

Meet Your Facilitators

Licity Collins - Conceptual artist & musician who brings a deep understanding of how creative practice intersects with life's most difficult moments

Katherine Hatch, LCSW - Founder of Grounded Grief and grief therapist who has long believed that grief and creativity are natural companions

Together, they'll hold space for participants to explore, express, and engage with their grief through a creative lens.

Workshop Details

Day: Wednesday, November 6th

Time: 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM EST

Where: Zoom (online)Duration: 1 hour

Cost: $65 (Sliding scale options available—please just ask)

Registration: Sign up at groundedgrief.com

This Workshop Is For You If:

You're feeling the weight of collective grief right now
You're looking for ways to express what feels inexpressible
You want to connect with others who understand
You're curious about how creativity can support grief processing
You need a space where your grief is welcomed, not fixed
You're seeking community in this challenging moment

In This Moment

The timing of this workshop—the day after the election—is intentional. Many of us will be carrying grief, confusion, fear, and uncertainty. This space offers a place to bring all of that and to discover how we might move through it together, creatively.

You don't need to be "an artist" to benefit from this workshop. You just need to be willing to show up with your grief and see what wants to be expressed.