VFTS 2021 10 | Sharon Strouse | Artful Grief: Expressive Arts Therapies for Bereavement

FEATURED GUEST: Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT is a board-certified and licensed clinical professional art therapist and Associate Director for the Portland Institute. Her art therapy private practice, national presentations, trainings and practitioner supervision/ mentoring focuses on traumatic loss, specifically with parents who have lost a child, suicide bereavement, and military family loss. The theoretical foundations of her group and individual art therapy work are grounded in meaning reconstruction, attachment informed grief therapy, continuing bonds with the deceased, and restorative retelling. She is author of Artful Grief: A Diary of Healing, (www.artfulgrief.com) written twelve years after the suicide of her seventeen-year-old daughter. She is co-founder of The Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation (www.krsf.com) a non-profit dedicated to supporting programs that increase awareness of mental health through education and the arts.

TRAIN with Sharon at the 12th Annual Expressive Therapies Summit:

• Nov 6, 2021 7:00 PM EST VIRTUAL TOWN HALL - Mourning, Meaning & Celebrating Together: An Expressive Way Through the Pandemic with Bob Neimeyer, Sharon Strouse, Evid Lindemann, Catharine DeLong, Stacies Yeldell & Nancy Scherlong
• Nov 11, 2021 6:30PM EST IN-PERSON - Superhero Grief: Secret Identity - and the Transformative Power of Mask Making with Jill Harrington & Sharon Strouse
• Nov 12, 2021 10:00AM EST IN-PERSON - Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic Loss with Sarah Vollman & Sharon Strouse

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
https://www.artfulgrief.com
Portland Instiute for Loss & Transition www.portlandinstitute.org 
The Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation www.krsf.com 

Additional Trainings on Grief & Loss at the 12th Annual Expressive Therapies Summit:
Track is co-sponsored by the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (portlandinstitute.org)
Sharon Strouse, Track Coordinator

NOV 4 - Virtual
Evie Lindermann - 6 hrs +
The Healing Power of Mandalas and the MARI: Focusing on Grief & Loss

NOV 5 - Virtual
Spanish Track (Bi-Lingual Presentation) - Lucy Rodriguez Barbosa - 2 hrs
Symbols & Rituals in the Management of Loss: Art Therapy in the Treatment of Grief

NOV 6 - Virtual
(Co-sponsored by Portland Institute, Kint Institute, Center for Journal Therapy)
Town Hall - Mourning, Meaning and Celebrating Together: An Expressive Way Through the Pandemic
Bob Niemeyer, Sharon Strouse, Evie Lindemann, Catharine DeLong, Stacie Yeldell, Nancy Scherlong 

NOV 7 - Virtual
Nancy Gershman - 3 hrs +
Liberating Joy from Loss Through Prescriptive Memory-Making & Dyadic Creativity

Gabrielle Kaufman, Jenny Linthorst, Stacie Yeldell - 3 hrs +
Creative Rituals for Processing Grief & Celebrating Life

NOV 11 - ATLANTIC CITY
Renee Turner - 6 hrs +
Integrative Storytelling Through Embodied Collage: Awakening the Inner Child

Josie Abbenante & Linney Wix 6 hrs
An Archetypal Art Therapy Approach to Tending Grief: Uncovering the Mysteries of Brokenness

Jill Harrington & Sharon Strouse - 3 hrs +
Superhero Grief: Secret-Identity and the Transformative Power of Mask Making

NOV 12 - ATLANTIC CITY
Peggy Kolodny, Salicia Mazero, Amanda Bechtel - 6 hrs +
Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Art Therapy for Working with Loss & Enhancing Resiliency

Sharon Strouse, Sarah Vollmann - 6 hrs +
Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic Loss

NOV 13 - ATLANTIC CITY
Sarah Vollmann - Memory Boxes - 3 hrs +
Memory Boxes: Containers of Love & Loss

NOV 14 - ATLANTIC CITY
Coenen - Karuna Cards - 3 hrs +
Grief Work Using Karuna Cards, Soul Cards & More

NOV 21 - Virtual
Catharine DeLong - 3 hrs
Music as Medicine at the End of Life