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SUMMARY:Netherton Library - Tending to My Grief - Workshop 1: Collage & Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to take part in an open and honest conversation 
 about grief? Would you like to hear from others who’ve experienced 
 bereavement and tend to our grief 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\nWe 
 invite people who’ve experienced grief to join us for a morning of 
 conversation\, collage\, and creative writing. 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\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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