The Creative Grief Studio

Looking for connection in your grief support work? Join us today at 1 PM Pacific for Studio Hour: Conversations for Grief Workers. A relaxed space to share, listen, and feel supported. Free to attend, registration required: https://creativegriefstudio.com/short-courses/

Our co-founder Kara launched a new printables collection that is vol. I of daily creative grief journal / workbook pages you can use to do self-directed exploration. The tools within are created to help you begin to externalize grief, explore your relationship to grief, and begin to notice and name the unmet needs that keep arising as you are living your life in the face of said grief. See details:

https://tinyurl.com/4tnrubv9

We’re sending out this special invite to our next Open Studio Hour happening August 7th, 2026, at 1pm Pacific time because we’re going to do something a little different.

https://creativegriefstudio.substack.com/p/crafting-your-creative-grief-tool

What's inside each module of Certification? We broke it down, module by module. Certification prep now runs through the whole course, not just at the end. Registration for our next session is open now.
https://open.substack.com/pub/creativegriefstudio/p/whats-in-each-module-of-the-cgs-certification

The Creative Grief Studio is on Substack! Subscribe for creative tools, stories, and reflections that help grief practitioners grow their work with imagination and heart. https://creativegriefstudio.substack.com/

We call our alumni Practitioners, not graduates. Kara says it often: it's a practice, not a perfect. No one finds the one right way to grieve or to support grief. There is only practice, again and again.
https://open.substack.com/pub/creativegriefstudio/p/practitioners-who-reflect-and-edit

Grief doesn't happen just inside a person. It happens in a social world. The voices around us, the cultural scripts we've internalized, the rules we absorbed without ever examining them. All of it shapes how people grieve and how they make meaning after a loss.

The latest post on the CGS Substack looks at three things every grief practitioner needs to understand: the social forces shaping grief, what happens when the relational landscape fractures after a loss, and the relationships that continue long after someone dies.

Read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/creativegriefstudio/p/meaning-making-is-not-a-solo-act