Grief Threads : How Sewing Can Help Us Heal w— Melissa Word
Sewing as a way of holding grief and mending our hearts. Join artist + facilitator Melissa Word as we dive into embodied ways of reconciling and creativity as a powerful way to be together and move through grief.
Melissa Word is an artist, dancer, writer and facilitator. Her work takes the form of live performance, workshops, textile collages, drawings and newsletters. She specializes in creating transformative group experiences for people who want to feel more creative and connected to themselves–quilting classes for grief, movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair, voice work for expanding consciousness. Her workshops can be found on her website, and her writing can be read regularly on her substack publication, Trust Fall.
we discuss —
- embodied ways of reconciling differences
- creativity as medium for moving through grief
- embracing our personal complexity
- the value of a marginal perspective
- sewing as meditation
- working with textiles as a mode for connecting to the Earth, ancestors, one another and our selves
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