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Kathleen Rouleau, RNHospice Nurse, Home Funeral Educator, End-of-Life Coach, Ceremonialist, Water Protector, Green Burial Advocate, Compassionate Grief Ritualist, Reiki Practitioner, Minister, and Lifecycle Celebrant.
Kathleen founded Creative Grief Work in 2021 as a compassionate response to the growing global awareness of the healing that comes from bringing breath and movement to the stored memories and feelings in our bodies. The release of pressure brings waves and waves of pleasure!
Kathleen brings a brave intimate freedom to the table with 30 years of personal experience, grassroots learning and University training. For fun, Kathleen spends time organizing public community rituals, interviewing beautiful people she meets whose very actions are prayers of love made manifest, and listening to ocean waves hitting the shoreline. |
Thresholds of healing have warm familiarity to them when we drop into our bodies and listen. Not the 21-century listening we are used to but the electrifying talking to a beloved hanging onto every word to taste and know their flavor kind of listening. Taking it all in we can surrender to the flow. All of our experiences have a story to tell. Making the time to be fully present to the stories we hold facilitates a feeling of home coming.
Intentional ceremony offers a tender framework for slowing down and being present.
Slowing down not from exhaustion, but to intentionally cultivate connection to feeling and healing.
We are holding so much grief.
Pandemic grief, personal grief, environmental grief, sexual grief, gender grief, historical grief...
We become better advocates for change when we connect to and process our grief.
Our blessed human bodies grant us the most exquisite tools for healing.
Sight Hearing Touch Taste Smell
When was the last time a song moved you to tears?
Certain smells remind me of loved ones.
A certain touch can stop us in our tracks.
Holding space for people to grieve and to witness vulnerability is heart opening. Creative grief work rituals invite you to engage your grief with compassionate presence. The paths to healing are in us.
Past gatherings have included rituals to help:
Slowing down not from exhaustion, but to intentionally cultivate connection to feeling and healing.
We are holding so much grief.
Pandemic grief, personal grief, environmental grief, sexual grief, gender grief, historical grief...
We become better advocates for change when we connect to and process our grief.
Our blessed human bodies grant us the most exquisite tools for healing.
Sight Hearing Touch Taste Smell
When was the last time a song moved you to tears?
Certain smells remind me of loved ones.
A certain touch can stop us in our tracks.
Holding space for people to grieve and to witness vulnerability is heart opening. Creative grief work rituals invite you to engage your grief with compassionate presence. The paths to healing are in us.
Past gatherings have included rituals to help:
- clear the mind
- meditations
- crystal bowl sound healing
- chanting
- toning
- sacred listening
- connect with your body
- breathwork
- ablutions (Ritual washing)
- connect with nature to soothe and restores our nervous system
- plant spirit bathing
- Shinrin-Yoku (forest air bathing)
- fire ceremonies
- reignite creativity
- expressive arts
- journaling and expressive writing prompts
- kintsugi (Japanese art form that mimics our taking back to ourselves the broken, disowned parts)
- special guest facilitators sharing techniques from around the world
