The Way of Clay & Ash: creating from our grief
Come join kindred spirits as we explore new shapes for our grief – and honor the ways it has shaped us. This 3-hour workshop will offer hands-on experience with clay & ash, using these mediums to bring us into physical presence with the grief we carry.
Grief is a passageway, inviting us to connect with our abundant creativity, personal power, and what we are bringing to the present moment. Making something with our hands is one of the oldest ways we know how to do that.
Honoring our grief - both individual and collective - is sacred work. When left untended, it stagnates - depleting our energy, our patience, and our capacity to show up for the moments that need us. This workshop is specifically designed as a creative, process-based experience — not a support group. Working with clay as a form of expression, ritual, and personal reflection, we move together from stuckness and stagnation toward flow and possibility.
Set to the backdrop of music, poetry readings, and guided prompts from the facilitators, participants will:
receive a framework for processing grief
engage in a collective burning ritual
experience hands on clay time
create at least one clay ritual item
interact with the four elements to inform grief practices
alchemize grief in community
Hydration and snacks provided
Who this is for:
This workshop is open to all. No experience with clay necessary. We are living through so much, individually and collectively and there is much to grieve. This space will provide the container for anyone curious for new ways to process the overwhelm of this moment and use the grief passageway as a rich source for creativity.
For anyone…
who has lost something - person, pet, job, friendship
shedding / shifting an identity
bearing witness to the world’s horrors
who visited a zoo recently
navigating change or transition
feeling the crush of the colonial, capitalist, white supremist, patriarchy
HOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT
COST: $65 // *please reach out to hello@rebeccamullinsstudio.com with access needs
Please fill out this form and make your payment using the payment option buttons below. You will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of reserving your place.
Meet Your Facilitators
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Meet Your Facilitators //
Rebecca Mullins (she/her)
Death Midwife & Educator, Multicultural/Dimensional Artist, Grief Care Companion, Home Funeral Guide, Energy Practitioner, Animist & Unschooling Parent. Her work explores in-between spaces, ritual, and transformation. Her creative process is ignited and guided by ancestral wisdom and elemental and cosmic realms, and often draws from personal narrative, illuminating patterns of growth, decay, and renewal. Her experience as a Death Midwife attunes her to thresholds, process, presence, and the unfolding of transitions, shaping both her studio work and her teaching.
Rebecca teaches and facilitates creative learning throughout West Michigan, blending artmaking, intuitive process, and exploration of transitional spaces. Her work engages life’s rhythms, mysteries, and the unseen - offering space for introspection, connection, and the emergence of meaning.
These explorations extend into her daily life as an unschooling parent to a 9 year old, where creativity, ritual, and relationship are woven into the rhythms of home and community. She is devoted to deepening personal and communal relationships, and finds inspiration along the shores of Lake Michigan, lush forests, in the song of wind chimes, crickets & tree frogs, impromptu karaoke sessions, dance parties and in the simple, grounding pleasure of pie.
Kari Bergman (she/her)
Kari Bergman (she / her) is a coach, facilitator, and word witch who gets most excited when dreaming new worlds. As a deeply feeling person, she is no stranger to grief. But her recent life’s work is to lean just as strongly - if not more so towards joy, play, pleasure and deep belly laughter. Let’s get weird together.
Empathic, curious, and deeply intuitive, Kari listens beyond words. In 1:1 sessions and in groups, she takes people deep to seed forward movement. Drawing on tools from Liberating Structures, Conscious Leadership Group and the Co-Active Model, she seeks to create experiences for folks to cultivate greater connection and understanding of themselves, each other and the world. Kari is wise, hilarious, and occasionally sassy in the facilitator seat. She came up in her facilitation work with AG Collaborative, and holds two coaching certifications.
Kari is a parent and a partner, a white-bodied, anti-capitalist, woman living in the ancestral and present homeland of the Anishinaabe people—the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Bodwéwadmi—collectively known as the People of the Three Fires. She is ready to pull apart the many harmful systems we are currently operating in to build a new world where all can belong and be free. Her decolonial journey is in baby stages and she is learning from the great teachers of our time - Prentis Hemphill, Adrienne Maree brown, Autumn Brown, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Dr. Christena Cleveland, and Resmaa Menakem.
Her greatest teacher at the moment is her 7-year old. Together they are getting their hands in the dirt often, playing with model trains, sand, water, trucks, power tools and unproductivity. When she is following her own lead, you’ll find Kari clacking out poems on a very old typewriter, tap dancing on the hard wood floors in the dining room, and ordering double scoops of ice cream.