Good Will Come | Sheila Collins

Grieving for a Country

by Sheila Collins | Jan 25, 2025 | Book Excerpts, book promotion, Community, Dances, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

About a decade ago, I expanded my view of loss and what situations need grieving. I had written a book, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal that illustrated the grieving of personal and familial situations of loss and touched on the...

Grieving Devastation

by Sheila Collins | Jan 16, 2025 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Good Will Come, Grieving, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

We’ve seen it on our screens for days now, the devastation of entire neighborhoods; schools, places of worship, shops, restaurants, and landmarks, all through the eyes of photojournalists whose job it is to communicate and record what’s happening in our larger world....

Transforming Grief and Rage into Courage and Action

by Sheila Collins | Sep 12, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Publications, Resilience, Rituals, social justice

It’s been 23 years since four Islamist terrorists, members of al-Qaeda, engaged in coordinated suicide attacks against the United States in 2001. At 8:14 am EDT on that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast...

Grieving to Overcome Hate

by Sheila Collins | Nov 30, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, History, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body, Writing

I didn’t see the National news item when it was broadcast across the gigantic flat TV screen at the airport this morning. But I saw its effect in the eyes of my traveling companion. As he described its message to me, the churning sensations in my gut reminded me of...

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...

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. ...

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

In my new book (COMING SOON), I'll share some uncommon notions about grief and how the arts, and art-making, have transformative powers that take us to the heart of the matter.

Grieving for a Country

Grieving Devastation

Grieving to Overcome Hate

Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

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