Grief is painful. It can also be beautiful.

A year-long, prompt-led practice of tending your grief through creative ritual, writing, and the act of witnessing.

52 Weekly Creative Grief Prompts | $11/month for 12 months

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me

a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand

that this, too, was a gift.

-Mary Oliver

Join a lineage of weird, wonderful souls on a journey towards alchemizing grief.

Grief Cabaret is for those who are ready to stop hiding the tender, grieving parts of themselves (the ones society so often asks us to quiet) and to begin communing with Creativity to let their shadows and stories speak.

It is for those carrying grief - new or old, named or unspoken - within their bodies and their pasts, who long for more ritual and rootedness in their daily lives. For those seeking deeper connection to their grief as companion, who are open to stepping into a global lineage of others on the grieving path, too, but who feel best working at a steady, self-paced rhythm. 

Grief Cabaret is for anyone ready to make a gentle year-long commitment to their inner world and to enter a time of unearthing and rebirthing. It is for those who are ready to step into devotion toward alchemizing grief into something alive, meaningful, and beautiful, and who know, deep in their bones, that even the heaviest grief is rooted in love, always love.

Writing

Crafting

Inside Grief Cabaret, you’ll receive weekly creative Cabaret Acts.

For fifty-two weeks, you will be invited to call forth the stories held in your bones through weekly prompts called Cabaret Acts. These prompts are crafted to support your personal unfolding and are delivered straight to your inbox each week.

Some weeks, you’ll be asked to write your grief - unearthing your stories through poetry, prose, and memory. Other weeks, you’ll turn to your hands and senses with art projects, altar-making, and creative rituals.

As the weeks flow and you deepen your relationship with both creativity and grief, what will emerge is a living archive—a year-long tome of love and a sacred record of your journey into grief.

What is grief,

if not love,

perservering?

-Vision, WandaVision

This is a self-directed year-long practice.

You are the ritual-keeper and the griefwalker. We entrust you with your practice and expect all members to commit the time they need to complete the weekly prompts. Set aside time, light a candle, and allow your imagination and creativity to be free. Each week is yours to shape.

In this space, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the music-makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. What we are not - universally - is writers. 

This is not a memoir-writing or a pure grief-writing program. This is a creativity & feeling program. Some of us may be poets or authors, but most of us are beautiful, flawed humans, seeking expression, whose grief is ready to be moved. You don’t need any writing experience to participate in the Grief Cabaret. All you need is the courage to show up for yourself.

Come to create.

Come to cry. 

Come to write and color and weave.

Come to color outside the lines

& be transformed

By the power of your words.

Come to put pen to paper

And see what emerges.

Come to feel.

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

Praise

& Love

“This was and continues to be a profoundly wonderful gift. I uncovered and discovered meanings to things that had perplexed me for years and with that came a deeper understanding of my journey on this planet.

While I gravitated to the writing prompts I truly loved the ones where we could draw, color, or work with our hands in another form than I am used to. These prompts took me outside of my realm and in doing so brought things up and moved the energies in me, in a different way and I appreciated that greatly.”

- Sharon, Grief Cabaret Participant


“The thought and care that went into these weekly prompts is so evident. My kudos and gratitude to the creators, and your teachers over the years. Very, very valuable to me, I have learned so much already. I've uncovered gems and a depth of richness in myself, that I don't know I would've reached this decade otherwise…

Give a girl a hug, you ease her grief for a day. Teach a girl to grieve, you ease her grief for a lifetime.”

- Anonymous, Grief Cabaret Participant

Questions Answered

  • Not only are you welcome here, you are needed here. You carry the wisdom of the long-time griever and your willingness to unearth your grief is a gift to all. Not only will you honor your grief and likely create works you will cherish forever, your experience will enrich the whole.

  • Weekly Cabaret Acts come in all shapes and sizes, and vary in form and structure… Some are more memoir-based. Some may lean towards the abstract. Some require deep imagination. Some are very tangible. Curated across the seasons and the year, they work synergistically to tend to your grief and lead you back to your inherent wholeness. 

  • We recommend you begin with a beautiful journal, preferably new, dedicated solely to this program. Some weeks ask for you to utilize artistic mediums such as colored pencils, markers, or paint.. But it is always up to you, and the prompts are open to interpretation. 

  • The Grief Cabaret is a year-long commitment to yourself, and a spiraling ritual into the practice of grieving. Enrollment for the entire year is recommended.

  • A real-life Grief Cabaret, with costumes and all, would be magical, but for now this remains a personal journey. We do understand the immense value of being witnessed in your grief, though, and encourage you to join one of our monthly Weeping Circles if you’re seeking this type of connection.

BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY

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All are welcome.

Whether your grief is new or old, the cabaret is waiting. This is a personal creative journey, and a one year commitment.

$11/month for 12 months

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.