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 our grief. Grief is a passageway, inviting us to connect with our abundant creativity, personal power, and what we are bringing to the present moment.
Honoring our grief - both individual and collective - is sacred work. When left untended, grief stagnates - leading to energy depletion, higher irritability, and lowering our capacity to show up for these moments that need us. This experience is specifically designed as a passageway to bring us from stuckness and stagnation, toward flow and possibility. It is a creative, process-based experience—not a grief support group. While participants are encouraged to bring their grief into the space, the focus is on working with clay as a form of expression, ritual, and personal reflection, rather than group processing or discussion.
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 through art making
And
Hydration and snacks provided
Who this is for:
This experience 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 - a pet, a beloved, an identity, a friendship
missing a loved one
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
……the list of grief goes on
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)
Rebecca is a 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, impromptu karaoke sessions, dance parties galore, in the quiet resonance of wind chimes, and in the simple pleasure of homemade pie.
Kari Bergman (xo/xo)
Kari 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, goofiness and deep belly laughter.
Empathic, curious, and deeply intuitive, Kari listens beyond words. In 1:1 sessions and in groups, she takes people deep to seed forward movement, holding space for the human element to come through especially in the workplace. Kari has two coaching certifications from the Co-Active Training Institute and International Coach Federation and completed her B.S. in Public and Nonprofit Administration at Grand Valley State University in 2010.
Drawing on tools from Liberating Structures, Conscious Leadership Group and the Co-Active Model, she facilitates experiences for groups and teams to become more cohesive, trusting, open, and brave together. Kari is wise, hilarious, and occasionally sassy in the facilitator seat. She came up in her facilitation work with AG Collaborative, working with groups across a variety of public, private, and nonprofit sectors from 2019-2025.
Kari is a parent and partner, learning to be soft and messy and getting better at repair. When she's not facilitating or coaching, you'll find her playing with prose on a very old typewriter, tap dancing on the hard wood floors in her dining room, or paddling to keep up with her 7-year-old on his many fishing adventures.