As the facilitator of this group and having experienced death and divorce, I wanted to create a group where people could come and use the heart, mind and hands (Project Based Healing) to pick up the pieces of their broken and scattered lives regardless of the circumstance that brought them here.  Death, divorce, illness, suicide, murder, loss of job, all of these tragidies can and do leave us wondering "what's next?".  

When I became a teacher in a high school classroom after years of being an entrepreneur, I had my first taste of how hard it was to teach something I had been doing with my own two hands for years.  Teaching something requires a different understanding of a topic, it takes a different perspective.  My goal is to teach each person who attends to become a teacher of their crisis, not only to themselves but to those around you who either don't understand who you are now or to those around you who may be struggling also.

Using toothpicks, yo-yo's, chairs, birdhouses, you name it, we will find objects to place between us regardless of circumstance so that we can relate to the object, not the tragedy.  From this point, we now have an everyday object to move forward from.  Grief is universal and an everyday part of our life, why not use everyday objects and allow grief to "BE" a part of your life?

Be safe and well.