Held on Dharug & Gundungurra Country \\ Blue Mountains, NSW
Creative Community Workshops: where you & your Grief are invited
Grief In Motion is a series of creative workshops where we gather in community to be with, listen to, express and honour grief in all its forms. These workshops are not about fixing or rushing grief - it’s more an invitation to sit alongside it, to give it form, to let it speak - and to share this experience in safe company. Skilfully held by local creative practitioners and trauma-informed grief workers, these workshops are gentle, spacious and supportive. You don’t need any artistic experience, only a willingness to come as you are, with your grief as the guest of honour.
Upcoming workshops
We all carry grief in different ways. Some days it feels heavy, other days far away. Sometimes we need words, sometimes we need silence. Each Grief In Motion workshop offers a different doorway in: through music, writing, weaving, speaking, stitching, sculpting, baking - together, we discover how creativity can hold, soften, transform and befriend our grief.
Writing from Grief
with Samantha Lee Curran and Amy Firth
Grief has many voices. Some whisper, some rage, some fall silent. In this workshop, we’ll use guided journaling and creative writing as gentle tools to listen, shape and give language to the grief we carry. Poetry and prompts will help open the way, with space to write privately and, if you wish, to share in safe company.
Event Details
📅 Thursday 30th October, 2025
🕖 7pm – 9pm
📍 RoseyRavelston Books, Lawson
🎟 Cost: $20 or pay what you can (sliding scale — no one turned away)
✍️ What to bring: notebook & pen
Serenading Grief
with Heidi Lenffer (Cloud Control) and Amy Firth
Grief has its own soundtrack - songs and poems that hold us when words alone cannot. Serenading Grief is an evening of shared listening, where we gather to offer the music and poems that accompany our loss. You don’t need to perform or explain - just bring a song, poem, or passage that carries your grief or your story. We’ll listen in community, honouring the ways that art continues to help us hold memory, love and loss.
📅 Wednesday 26th November, 2025
🕖 7pm - 9pm
📍 RoseyRavelston Books, Lawson, Darug & Gundungurra Country
🎟 Cost: $20 (plus booking fee) or pay what you can (sliding scale available - no one turned away)
✍️ What to bring: a song, piece of music or reading to share
How Grief In Motion Came to Life
Grief In Motion was born from a simple but powerful noticing: when we gathered for the Blue Mountains Death Café’s, it became clear that our community was yearning for more ways to sit with grief - not just to talk about it, but to move with it, express it and witness it together. Again and again, people spoke of wanting spaces where their grief could be seen, held, acknowledged and even transformed. I began to dream into what it might look like if grief had more doorways into community. If, instead of feeling rushed or hidden, it was invited to move - through song, through writing, through weaving, through ritual. What if we could create spaces where grief was welcomed as a guest of honour, and creativity became the vessel for honouring it?
Grief In Motion is my response to that calling. Each workshop partners with a local Blue Mountains creative practitioner who bring their own artform - poetry, music, textiles, storytelling, pottery, weaving, stitching - and together we co-create a gentle, spacious container for people to be with their grief. These gatherings are not about fixing or tidying away pain. They are about honouring it, exploring it and discovering the surprising ways creativity can hold us when words fall short.
Importantly, these workshops are not about creating something “good” or polished. The focus is not on the outcome, but on the process itself - the act of making, listening, and sharing. Whether you leave with a wreath, a page of writing, or simply the echo of a song, what matters most is the way creativity opens a pathway for grief to move. In this way, Grief In Motion is an invitation to create without pressure, to let the act of making be medicine in itself.
At its heart, Grief In Motion is a community project. It exists because grief belongs in community. It offers us the reminder that none of us have to carry our losses alone, and that in the act of creating, listening and witnessing each other, grief can move - and in moving, it can sometimes soften, shift, or reveal unexpected beauty.
With love,
Amy
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