ONLINE • Pacific Time Zone
$20

Research suggests that journaling about difficult experiences may reduce stress. It can even improve our immune functioning. In this workshop, we’ll write together to find ways to work with grief using gratitude practices, poetry, and mindfulness meditations. You will leave this interactive workshop with a variety of resources for continuing your own work and expression. You may even come away feeling a bit lighter and less alone. Please bring a journal to the workshop.

Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker who has led bereavement, end-of-life, cancer support, and therapeutic writing groups for over twenty years. She maintains a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a lay Buddhist chaplain ordained by Joan Halifax, she focuses on contemplative practices for end-of-life care.  Claire is the author of Lasting Words: A Guide to Finding Meaning Toward the Close of Life (2014) and co-author with Marnie Crawford Samuelson of Opening to Grief: Finding Your Way from Loss to Peace (October 2020).

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