The ART of GRIEF Bereavement Support Group

BAYADA Hospice of East Stroudsburg, PA will be offering an 8 week Bereavement Support Group entitled, The ART of GRIEF. These sessions will be held at their offices on 529 Seven Bridge Road, Suite 214, East Stroudsburg, PA, 18301.

The act of creating any piece of art, whether it is a painting, a sculpture, a poem or a sonata requires bringing together ideas, sentiments, notions, tangible medium, and thoughts that are within us and all around us. It is much the same as the therapeutic process itself. Things must be brought up and out of us to enable healing and growth.

It makes perfect sense that as individuals in the path of therapeutic healing amid death and dying; grief and grieving, that we should turn to the use of the arts in order to replicate the process of therapy with the plasticity of form.

Grief support in the community has often found it’s most noted and familiar application in verbal content / didactic formats. There is sufficient need in the community for the professional resources to enhance these verbal content /didactic formats with non-verbal content / disclosure formats that enable self-discovery and self-disclosure.

Therapeutic modalities that include art are critical. Both formats are part of the healing process and should be available in therapeutic circles. People need to allow themselves to enter into nonverbal treatments and apply interior remedies—antidotes from within—as well as discuss the formal data on healing amid grief.
This program will be designed to address verbal forms of communicating ones grief and loss, while it will provide space for people to open up and do some interior work that will touch on often non-disclosed matter. This is supported and nurtured by the use of artistic media.

The sessions will be held from 10:00 am - 11:30 am on Tuesdays of March and April 2017.
Those dates are: 7, 14, 21, 28 March 2017 and 4, 11, 18 25 April 2017
The themes for the 8 Modules are as follows:

• Memories of the one who died
• How life has changed
• Things we did that gave me strength
• Places we connected
• People who try to comfort
• What has been my strength now
• How do I hear them now
• What have I learned about myself

Please invite your clients and or staff to join us for this powerful program of mending amid loss. The ART of GRIEF is for those who have lost a loved one and wish to heal.

Space is limited so RSVP today to 484.509.7411 or tjohnson-medland@BAYADA.com

The program is FREE.