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SUMMARY:Tending to My Grief: Collage & Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:We invite people who’ve experienced grief to join us for a 
 morning of conversation\, collage\, and creative writing in Netherton 
 Library. We will guide people through the process of making collaged poems 
 in response to library books. There will also be moments of reflection and 
 conversion about grief as we cut\, stick and write together.\n\nAfter 
 experiencing loss\, we (Chris Alton and Emily Simpson) both noticed a lack 
 of opportunities for these conversations. By sharing our experiences 
 through collaborative art making\, we aim to create spaces where those 
 living with loss can feel less alone and find community. For this series of 
 workshops we are thinking about how we tend* to our grief through creative 
 activities. Sessions will be hosted in Netherton Library and Feel Good 
 Factory’s garden.\n\nThe session is free\, all materials and equipment 
 will be provided. No knowledge or previous experience of collage or 
 creative writing is required. There will be practical support\, prompts and 
 worksheets to guide the creative process.\n\n*Here we mean ‘tend to’ in 
 the sense of taking care of or paying attention to someone or something\, 
 such as tending to a garden.\n\nPlease be Aware:\n\n- These are stand-alone 
 workshops. You do not have to attend all three\, but are welcome to do 
 so\n\n- This workshop is for anyone who has experienced grief and is ready 
 to talk about it and hear from others\n\n- This event is for ages 18  but 
 parents and carers are welcome to bring those they look after if this makes 
 attending possible.\n\n-  The session will focus on our experience of grief 
 and living with loss rather than the details of a person’s death. This is 
 to avoid more distressing subject matter\n\n-  Whilst Chris and Emily have 
 led many workshops like this\, they are not trained counsellors and this is 
 not a counselling session\n\n-  We ask participants to be respectful and 
 sensitive towards other people and their experiences. We recognise that 
 taking part in an event like this requires people to be vulnerable and so 
 we ask participants to be mindful of this and considerate of each other’s 
 boundaries and the different stages of grief we may be in.\n\n \n\nAccess: 
 If you have any questions or access needs\, please email 
 hello@atthelibrary.co.uk. Feelgood Factory and Netherton Library are both 
 fully wheelchair accessible.\n\n
LOCATION:Seating Area
ORGANIZER;CN="at the library":MAILTO:hello@atthelibrary.co.uk
CATEGORIES:At the Library Event, Grief
CONTACT;CN="at the library":MAILTO:hello@atthelibrary.co.uk
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