Online Creative Bereavement Session - Drawing Plants

An event for LGBTIQA+ people who have lost someone to suicide to connect with their grief journey through creativity.

Switchboard Victoria's Creative Bereavement Sessions

Switchboard’s LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Program is hosting a series of creative bereavement sessions where participants will connect with loss after a suicide by participating in expressive exploration. When we experience grief, we feel big emotions and movement. Creative expression can allow us to understand our experiences differently, help us in our relationship to grief, and assist with connecting to our feelings and experiences that can feel beyond words.

If you haven't attended a session before, one of our staff will be in touch to discuss with you what it might be like for you to attend this session or explore other support options.

Session

Date: Thursday, 19th of March

Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm AEDT

Location: Online (Zoom)

Activity:

Workshop facilitator Craig, from Draw Plants Together, will be supporting participants in experimenting with drawing plants. Participants will use this as a tool to connect with their grief journey, and ways a sense of connection with plants, and creativity, can support them.
Please bring a plant along to the session, to spend time with and draw.

Facilitator:

Craig Burgess (he/him) is an artist, facilitator and nature lover, and has hosted Draw Plants Together drawing workshops since 2023 to contribute his skills and experience across creativity and facilitation in the space of ecological care and well-being.

Who can attend:

This session is open to all LGBTIQA+ people who have experienced a loss by suicide.

Registration:

Places are limited so please let us know as soon as you can if you would like to come along, we will do our best to accommodate everyone.

If you have any questions about the event before you'd like to register please reach out: 0437 918 239 or via email: bereavement@switchboard.org.au

Bereavement Support:

Switchboard also hold LGBTQIA+ Suicide Bereavement Support Groups, If you'd like to speak with one of our bereavement team about coming along, or had any questions about the groups, please get in touch. You can contact the team via phone 0437 918 239 or via email: bereavement@switchboard.org.au

About this event:

We acknowledge that our work takes place on lands that are under colonial occupation and that sovereignty has never been ceded. We hope to pay our deepest respects to Boon Wurrung elders, past and present, and wish to extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People across this Country we know as Australia.