Gatherings | Sheila Collins

Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

by Sheila Collins | Nov 9, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Improvisation, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

I spent the weekend in Oakland CA at InterPlayce, the home of the art-based improvisational system InterPlay, (an active creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body.) I’ve been a proponent, participant, practitioner, performer, teacher and altogether...

To Change Our World

by Sheila Collins | Nov 2, 2023 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Duality, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Rituals, Songs, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

When I was in high school, I read a newspaper article about a new kind of therapy. What I knew about mental health therapy at that time was that it was an expensive individual process, often taking years, where a person worked on their own behaviors and attitudes with...

How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

by Sheila Collins | Oct 19, 2023 | Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Meditations, Personal Stories, ReImagine, The Art of Grieving

Practicing the art of grieving throughout the years and using the arts to do that, has continually offered me lessons and learnings not available through any other method. A profound example are the lessons I learned in how to grieve when war was declared in Israel. ...

Another Visit From a Butterfly

by Sheila Collins | Oct 12, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

I only had one assignment from my writing coach when I left Pittsburgh last week to spend 5 days in Belize at a women’s retreat. My intention was to step away and have some time for reflection, but our project is at the place where we need to establish a launch date...

Between the Worlds

by Sheila Collins | Sep 27, 2023 | Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Not only do we not “practice dying,” as Socrates advised his students, but most people in western culture know very little about the process of dying, and how to be with someone when that is what is transpiring. Of course, not all deaths can be accompanied, many...

Poetry and Grief’s Gift

by Sheila Collins | Aug 30, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Gatherings, Grieving, the Big Body

Yesterday was National Grief Awareness Day in the U.S. It’s goal–to encourage open communication on loss and bereavement, and better inform the public on the facts of grief. As a grief advocate, I am always on the lookout for art tools that help us understand grief...

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Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

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How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

Another Visit From a Butterfly

Between the Worlds

Poetry and Grief’s Gift

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