Morning Altars Workshops at Lakewood

Join Lakewood for this hands-on workshop led by internationally recognized earth artist Day Schildkret (Morning Altars). In this guided class, Day will guide us through the 7 step Morning Altars process, learning how we can make beauty from grief by creating beautiful and unique mandalas out of natural, foraged materials. Throughout this reflective experience we will explore Lakewood's grounds to gather leaves, flowers, stones, and more to use as materials, and we will use the earth as our canvas - creating one-of-a-kind mandalas dedicated to someone or something that is loved and missed.

You will make — and deconstruct — your own memory mandala, leaving the workshop with a mindful practice you can do every day, no matter where you are.

Meet the Artist: Day Schildkret

Day Schildkret is an award-winning author, artist, ritualist, and teacher who is internationally known for Morning Altars, which Buzz Feed calls, “a celebration of nature and life.” Working for over a decade with individuals, communities and organizations, Day is helping to heal the culture through a meaningful and creative response to change. Day is the author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change (Simon Element/Simon & Schuster, 2022) as well as Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual (The Countryman Press/W.W. Norton, 2018). Day is the founder and principal instructor for the Morning Altars Teacher Training, a certification program to equip helpers and healers with the knowledge, skills, and tools to integrate the Morning Altars healing modality with their clients and communities.

Learn more about Day and his practice at morningaltars.com and dayschildkret.com.

Scholarship Program

At Lakewood, we want death and grief education to be accessible for all. Therefore, we offer up to 10 scholarships for professionals or aspiring professionals in the death and dying field (deathcare, death education, spiritualists, ritualists, and more are encouraged to apply). We reserve 5 scholarships for BIPOC individuals with a practice or interest in this field.

Scholarship recipients will be awarded:

• 2 tickets to the workshop experience for you and a friend

To apply or learn more about the scholarship, please email amandal@lakewoodcemetery.org.

Questions?

For questions about the event, call Lakewood at 612-540-5165 or email events@lakewoodcemetery.org.