Workshops - Alli Pfaff

*Although workshop experiences may have therapeutic qualities, they are not psychotherapy services. Workshops tend to focus on music & art making experiences in community.

Expressing Grief in Community Part 2: through music and sound making

Dec 03, 2024, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Trinity Community Centre, 360 Reid St, Peterborough, ON K9H 7G6, Canada

About the Event

Course Description

Too often we find ourselves isolated and stuck with the feelings that surround loss and grief. Whether personal or collective grief, it can be difficult to know when, where, how and with whom to process and share. In this two-part workshop, you are invited to practice a collaborative and communal expression of grief. With the careful facilitation of retired Expressive Arts Therapist, Brian Nichols, and practicing Music Therapist, Alli Pfaff, you will try out ways of expressing grief through art-making, music and sound-making, play, and connection.

The goal of these sessions is to provide an opportunity to come together and practice moving our grief, finding new homes for it outside of ourselves in community with others. Our hope is you will take this practice with you and continue to create and find spaces where grief can be shared and expressed with others.

Part 2: Expressing grief through music and sound-making.

This session’s theme is ‘lightness/darkness’. For many, December is a time of intensified feelings of grief and heaviness. It is the season that marks the transition from darkness to light. You can expect this theme of lightness and darkness to be explored through visualization, improvisation with a variety of instruments, and collaborative music and art pieces. No previous musical experience is needed. Please come as you are and with an openness to try new forms of artistic expression.

There is no requirement to attend both sessions, they are connected but not reliant on one another. If you would like to attend both, please register separately for each session.

Age

This course is for everyone. If you are under 16 and interested in taking this course, please attend with a parent or guardian.

Facilitators

Alli Pfaff & Brian Nichols

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Alli Pfaff Psychotherapy operates in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough area.

Alli Pfaff Psychotherapy acknowledges we are on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga (Michi Saagiig) Anishinaabeg and in the territory covered by the Williams Treaty and Treaty 20. Living in Nogojiwanong, the Anishinaabeg word for ‘place at the end of the rapids’, connects us to Curve Lake First Nation, Alderville First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation, and the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. As a white settler, I commit to a continued process of learning, centred in care and humility, and recognize my responsibility to work toward reconciliation.