Rituals for Grief: Water

Rituals for Grief: Water is an educational and experiential workshop introducing participants to the foundations of grief ritual, with elemental water as our guide.

Facilitated by Anastasia Coppola, LCSW, the workshop will explore how ritual can create support, meaning, and containment around grief. Through teaching, reflection, creativity, and ritual, we’ll consider ways to tend our own grief and accompany others through loss while learning practices that can be carried into our lives beyond the workshop.

Held during Scorpio season—an astrological water sign associated with depth, transformation, and the unseen—we’ll explore themes of emotional honesty, remembrance, release, and renewal. Anastasia will share general teachings on grief, the basic tenets of ritual, and practices for partnering with elemental water.

We’ll then move from learning into practice. Participants will use prompts to begin imagining and designing grief rituals of their own before experiencing a water-based ritual together. Using moon water collected from a recent full moon, participants will dye a textile piece as a tactile practice of memory, transformation, and connection.

Participants will leave with their textile piece and a small workbook containing ritual outlines and ideas, reflection prompts, and tools for continuing to develop their own grief practices.

All materials provided. No previous art or ritual experience is necessary. This is not a grief support group, and participants will not be expected to share or process a particular loss. The workshop is designed as a space to learn, experiment, and gather tools that can be used in tending your own grief or supporting others through theirs.

Rituals for Grief: Water
Thursday, November 5 · 6–8 PM
Madison Death Studio + Bookshop
2716 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Facilitated by Anastasia Coppola, LCSW
Hosted by Meghan Allynn Johnson / Madison Death Studio + Bookshop