free gathering
GRIEF & Rage Art
A live, COMMUNITY gathering to craft your grief
Anger is a fundamental, and deeply misunderstood, emotion. One that society often asks us to quiet. Repressed anger can come out sideways as violence and aggression, but honored anger can be highly productive and even, therapeutic. This gathering will center on honoring the rage that is native to grief, laying to rest the urge to demonize it, and using it to create something beautiful through a process of destruction and recreation.
Join us to get angry, and be validated in it. To make rage art using a proven art therapy method. To get messy. Bring magazines and paper to rip to pieces, and a paper to glue things on. We’ll see you there, cloaked in rage.
Co-led by:
Rachael deegan & Lauren Carroll
march 5 at 1pm mountain time
held on Zoom
recording available
Your FACILITATORS
Rachael Deegan
Rachael is a licensed professional counselor in the Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs area. She works with adults and adolescents 16+ and specializes in trauma, depression, anxiety, and self esteem. She’s passionate about helping individuals and communities find mental liberation, process trauma, and tap into empowering authentic expression. She utilizes Internal Family Systems (IFS), Art Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Instinctual Trauma Response Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, HeartMath+, and Existential Positive Psychology.
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.