Mental Health Awareness Month Workshop: Cultivating Creativity through Grief and Loss
Come, drink tea, and express yourself through a candle-making activity with Melanated Mourning and Blow Candle CoAbout this experience
Come, drink tea, and express yourself through a candle-making activity with Melanated Mourning and Blow Candle Co. At this workshop we will give space for open conversation on grief, engage in a tea ceremony to honor their memories, and use creativity as a way to process grief and healing. Please bring your favorite tea cup, and feel free to bring pictures and any items of loved ones or life events you choose to celebrate and honor. A portion of proceeds from this event will go to Hearts2Heal, a local organization providing mental wellness support for the Black, Brown and military- connected communities. https://www.hearts2heal.org
"Hearts2Heal (H2H) is a Black-Latinx, woman and veteran-led nonprofit. We foster community-based grief support and mental health programs that elevate diverse experiences to eliminate stigma and discrimination. Get accessible and personalized grief, loss and/or mental wellness support from the comfort of your home."
Sunday, May 28th, 2-5pm
Event Itinerary:
- Welcome and altar set-up (participants will be guided to the altar as they enter)
- Introduction (Nina introduces herself and explains the format and purpose of the time spent together)
- Centering meditation
- Tea ceremony and emotional check- in
- Candle activity
- Collective grief conversations to process
***If you are interested in donating towards our admission fund to give someone out their the ability to join this workshop at no cost, please email us at hello@blowcandleco.com
Your Host
Nina's mission is to provide radical and authentic death doula services through the use of rituals, compassionate companionship, and unbiased support to all communities while centering survivors of abuse and Black and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and families. Nina believes that grief and healing support should be inclusive and centered on the unique experiences and needs of those who have historically been excluded and oppressed.
Nina firmly believes that grieving is good work towards emotional, spiritual, and mental liberation to living life unapologetically as a whole human.