Grief (and its often-present cousin, trauma) can leave us searching for words and often exhausted by trying to explain our experience. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll create a simple mini-zine: a tiny folded booklet that can become a private reflection, a way to track your own journey, or something you choose to share with family […]
Recently Widowed: Tools and Tips for those Widowed 1-3 years
Coping Strategies for Adapting to Secondary Losses
You didn’t just lose your partner. You lost your backup person, your plus one, and the person who shared your love of old movies, mowed the lawn, drove at night, and could feed the dog if you were running late. In this workshop you will learn how to identify your secondary losses, develop coping strategies […]
Beyond This Plane: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Healing After Loss
Grief has a way of opening us to experiences we may never have expected. Many widowed people describe moments that feel deeply meaningful—unexpected connections, powerful dreams, unexplainable coincidences, or a renewed sense of their loved one’s presence. This workshop isn’t about asking anyone to adopt a particular belief system. Instead, it offers a welcoming space […]
Rainbow Connections: Building Queer Community After Loss
Grief can be profoundly isolating, and LGBTQ+ widowed people often face an additional challenge: finding support where their relationships, identities, and experiences are fully understood and affirmed. Traditional bereavement groups may not reflect the realities of queer partnerships, chosen family, disenfranchised grief, or the complicated relationships some have with family and community. This interactive session […]
The Art of Becoming: Reinventing Yourself on Your Own Terms After Loss
To bridge the gap between who you were and who you are becoming. This interactive session is designed to shift the perspective from “forced reinvention” to “intentional self-discovery.” By looking at how we’ve survived transitions in the past, we will unlock practical, hopeful ways to get to know ourselves again and step forward into a new chapter.
When Grief Gets Stuck: Five Survival Patterns and the Coping Strategies That Help Us Move Forward
Grief is often described in stages, but many widowed individuals discover that their grief does not move in a predictable timeline. Instead, it can be stuck in survival patterns that make it difficult to move forward. In this workshop, Dr. Tina Fornwald introduces five survival patterns that commonly emerge after the loss of a spouse […]