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Artful Grief: Expressive Arts Therapies for Bereavement

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VFTS 2021 - EPISODE 10

Sharon Strouse | Artful Grief: Expressive Arts Therapies for Bereavement

Sharon Strouse | Artful Grief: Expressive Arts Therapies for Bereavement
Listen VFTS 2021 - Episode 10

FEATURED GUESTS: Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT is a board-certified and licensed clinical professional art therapist and Associate Director for the Portland Institute. Her art therapy private practice, national presentations, trainings and practitioner supervision/ mentoring focuses on traumatic loss, specifically with parents who have lost a child, suicide bereavement, and military family loss. The theoretical foundations of her group and individual art therapy work are grounded in meaning reconstruction, attachment informed grief therapy, continuing bonds with the deceased, and restorative retelling. She is author of Artful Grief: A Diary of Healing, (www.artfulgrief.com) written twelve years after the suicide of her seventeen-year-old daughter. She is co-founder of The Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation (www.krsf.com) a non-profit dedicated to supporting programs that increase awareness of mental health through education and the arts.
TRAIN with Sharon at the 12th Annual Expressive Therapies Summit:● Nov 6, 2021 7:00 PM EST VIRTUAL TOWN HALL - Mourning, Meaning & Celebrating Together: An Expressive Way Through the Pandemic with Bob Neimeyer, Sharon Strouse, Evid Lindemann, Catharine DeLong, Stacies Yeldell & Nancy Scherlong● Nov 11, 2021 6:30PM EST IN-PERSON - Superhero Grief: Secret Identity - and the Transformative Power of Mask Making with Jill Harrington & Sharon Strouse● Nov 12, 2021 10:00AM EST IN-PERSON - Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic Loss with Sarah Vollman & Sharon Strouse

Resources Mentioned On The Show

https://www.artfulgrief.comPortland Instiute for Loss & Transition www.portlandinstitute.org The Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation www.krsf.com
Additional Trainings on Grief & Loss at the 12th Annual Expressive Therapies Summit:Track is co-sponsored by the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (portlandinstitute.org)Sharon Strouse, Track Coordinator
NOV 4 - VirtualEvie Lindermann - 6 hrs +The Healing Power of Mandalas and the MARI: Focusing on Grief & Loss
NOV 5 - VirtualSpanish Track (Bi-Lingual Presentation) - Lucy Rodriguez Barbosa - 2 hrsSymbols & Rituals in the Management of Loss: Art Therapy in the Treatment of Grief
NOV 6 - Virtual(Co-sponsored by Portland Institute, Kint Institute, Center for Journal Therapy)Town Hall - Mourning, Meaning and Celebrating Together: An Expressive Way Through the PandemicBob Niemeyer, Sharon Strouse, Evie Lindemann, Catharine DeLong, Stacie Yeldell, Nancy Scherlong
NOV 7 - VirtualNancy Gershman - 3 hrs +Liberating Joy from Loss Through Prescriptive Memory-Making & Dyadic Creativity
Gabrielle Kaufman, Jenny Linthorst, Stacie Yeldell - 3 hrs +Creative Rituals for Processing Grief & Celebrating Life
NOV 11 - ATLANTIC CITYRenee Turner - 6 hrs +Integrative Storytelling Through Embodied Collage: Awakening the Inner Child
Josie Abbenante & Linney Wix 6 hrsAn Archetypal Art Therapy Approach to Tending Grief: Uncovering the Mysteries of Brokenness
Jill Harrington & Sharon Strouse - 3 hrs +Superhero Grief: Secret-Identity and the Transformative Power of Mask Making
NOV 12 - ATLANTIC CITYPeggy Kolodny, Salicia Mazero, Amanda Bechtel - 6 hrs +Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Art Therapy for Working with Loss & Enhancing Resiliency
Sharon Strouse, Sarah Vollmann - 6 hrs +Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic Loss
NOV 13 - ATLANTIC CITYSarah Vollmann - Memory Boxes - 3 hrs +Memory Boxes: Containers of Love & Loss
NOV 14 - ATLANTIC CITYCoenen - Karuna Cards - 3 hrs +Grief Work Using Karuna Cards, Soul Cards & More
NOV 21 - VirtualCatharine DeLong - 3 hrsMusic as Medicine at the End of Life

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Helping you bring a positive change into your life with art therapy for all ages.

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