Purpose: Grief | Art Therapy Interventions

Sitting with Sorrow

Explore sitting with sorrow and reactions to distressing grief emotions.

Engage in the creative act of painting a candle while honoring and remembering loved ones.

Represent a memory using the metaphor of a silhouette to express grief or loss.

Creating Masks to Explore Grief, Trauma, and the Inner/Outer Self

Preserve bonds and create legacy art with a plaster mold handcast.

Create a symbolic container to hold what feels too heavy to carry alone.

Preserve connection with legacy fingerprint cards.

Explore loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented glimmers to work through the oscillation of emotions in grief.

Listening to music while drawing can create a relaxed environment to express feelings and reduce stress.

Express grief and connection to loved ones by painting with symbolic stones.