Workshop participants used expressive arts to learn how to deal with their grief. (Photo Courtesy Ross Lavigne)

By Chris Brown

Grief workshop participants to share what they learned on Saturday

Oct 21, 2022 | 1:55 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – Whether it’s a loved one, a job or the ability to practice a favoured passion, grief always starts with a loss and affects everyone in different ways.

The local Inter-Act Theatre Society invited Claire Goodfellow and Maggie Milne Martens to lead a workshop in Medicine Hat to help people discover their own thoughts and feelings about grief.

“Grief is a tough subject and every one of us goes through experiences of grief. Not just with death, it can do with a loss of anything that’s been important,” Goodfellow says.

Over the past five days, workshop participants have used expressive arts like movement and gesture drawing, print-making and mask-making.

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Goodfellow adds grief is an embodied experience, not just in people’s head but in their heart and their whole body.

On Saturday, participants have the opportunity to share what they’ve learned at Doing Something With Your Grief. Goodfellow says the presentation is about sharing grief so they can help others learn to recognize their own grief.

“An opportunity to listen to other people’s experiences and to draw courage maybe or opportunity to be impressed on, maybe do something about their own grief experience to help them live fuller lives,” she explains. “So it’s really about sharing and it’s about holding space and listening and witnessing to each other.”

Doing Something With Your Grief is at the Blackbox Theatre in the Cultural Centre starting at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited and admission is free.

by Chris Brown

Grief workshop participants to share what they learned on Saturday

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