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Watch videos from my new book The Art of Grieving – to videos about overcoming loss – to my TEDx Talk and InterPlay Dance Performances. There is so much content here created over the years. I hope these videos help you with difficult questions and even bring joy to your life.

The Art of Grieving: Pandemic Edition – Funerals and Bereavement at a Distance

Sheltering at home, Dr. Sheila K Collins discusses the changes in funerals and bereavement rituals that the pandemic has made necessary. She asks what are we learning from these adaptations?

The Art of Grieving: Radical Self-Care for Front Line Caregivers and those That Love Them

Dr. Sheila K Collins, while sheltering in place, demonstrates how gratitude for others lifts our own spirits in this tough time. While appreciating health care workers like her own mother.

The Art of Grieving Pandemic Edition – Encouraging Our Resilience Through a Difficult Challenge

While sheltering in place, Dr. Sheila K Collins shares memories and wisdom gained from the first pandemic she lived through, the HIV/Aids pandemic of the 90s.

The Art of Grieving: The Pandemic Edition – Families Sheltering at Home

While sheltering at home, Dr. Sheila K Collins uses the Goldilocks story to explore what too much or not enough togetherness can mean in our relationships with loved ones.

Self-Care While Giving Care

Based on their 2018 book, Stillpoint: A Playbook For Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe and Reclaim Joy, this video shows these dancing social workers using art-based tools to help caregivers take care of themselves.

Sheila K. Collins Keynote: The Art of Grieving

Sheila K. Collins is a phenomenal speaker who teaches up about The Art of Grieving and turning tough into triumph. Sheila believes in taking care of ourselves through life’s toughest situations and shows us how.

Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals That Heal—Book Trailer

Tested to the limits of understanding and endurance by her son’s battle with AIDS, her daughter’s terminal breast cancer, and the effects these loses have on her family and herself.

When Death Threatens Someone We Love – Life REALLY Matters
TEDxUNLV

Dr. Collins offers suggestions to help others arrived at a place of resilience and recovery after undergoing their own extreme challenges.

Overcoming Loss 5 Keys to a Resilient Recovery

A compilation of sections from a keynote address at Bluffton University in honor of Social Work Month – March 1, 2016

InterPlay’s Anniversaries

InterPlay Pittsburgh celebrating the 25th Anniversary of InterPlay internationally and the 10th anniversary of Interplay in Pittsburgh

Dance/Talk

In this snippet from a performance of the book Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal Sheila uses an InterPlay form Dance Talk to tell what she learned about illness and the death of her children.

TEDx Pittsburgh Interplay

Watch Sheila and this ensemble cast at TEDx Pittsburgh and Interplay.

5 Keys to a Resilient Recovery – Short Version

Energize your audiences with stories, songs and resilient strategies to deal with life’s tough stuff.

Warrior Mother Performance The Big Suck Song

In this snippet from a performance of the book Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal by Sheila K. Collins, members of Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players use tools of InterPlay to create a song in the moment in response to a theme from the book.

One Billion Rising

Dancing to end violence against women

Performing Books about Mothers

Event at a premier independent bookstore, Books Inc. in Alameda CA – Two She Writes Press authors joined me and InterPlay performers, Cynthia Winton Henry, husband Stephen and musician Soyinka Rahim to perform our books

Dad’s Retirement

Warrior Mother Performance – How Men & Women Grieve

In this excerpt from a performance of the book Warrior Mother:Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal by Sheila K. Collins, Sheila and her husband share side by side versions of the same story.

Performing Books about Mothers

Event at a premier independent bookstore, Books Inc. in Alameda CA – Two She Writes Press authors joined me and InterPlay performers, Cynthia Winton Henry, husband Stephen and musician Soyinka Rahim to perform our books

Dad’s Retirement

Warrior Mother Performance – How Men & Women Grieve

In this excerpt from a performance of the book Warrior Mother:Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal by Sheila K. Collins, Sheila and her husband share side by side versions of the same story.

How Common is Loss?

Speaking to an audience of college students and faculty at Bluffton University, taking a survey of their experiences with loss. Her topic – Overcoming Loss: 5 keys to a Resilient Recovery.

Social Workers – Nobody Knows What We Do

In a keynote speech at Bluffton University Sheila K. Collins honors Social Workers during Social Work Month – March 2016

Warrior Mother Performance – Joy and Sorrow

In this snippet from a performance of the book Warrior Mother:Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal by Sheila K. Collins, members of Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players use dance and song to create in the moment on the theme of joy and sorrow.

Performing the Book Warrior Mother by Sheila Collins

Warrior Mother Performance – Curing or Healing

In this snippet from a performance of the book Warrior Mother:Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and Rituals that Heal by Sheila K. Collins, Sheila reads a scene from the book dealing with the theme of a disease being cured or person being healed.

Celebrating Two Years of InterPlay Atlanta

The “InterPlay Song” accompanying this slideshow was created and performed by the Pacha Mamas in 2008 for the InterPlay International Conference in Oakland, California. The members of Pacha Mamas are Angela Bennett, Marquetta Dupree, and Vivian Slade. Angela and Marquetta are InterPlayers.