Grief School Summer Camp
Grief School Summer Camp is a five-day playground, facilitated by Ari Simon and kwonyin, for ideating and creating what gives us meaning through loss, held at Madhura Studios. Through meditation, creative writing and art, conversation, and creation of rituals, participants learn and practice processing grief in community.
Ari Simon (they/them) is a facilitator, coach, grief care worker, climate policy convener, and founder of Grief at Work – tools and teachings in grief & loss competency for teams and communities. Through a loss-honoring practice, Ari convenes people at intersections of health & climate adaptation, mental & emotional wellbeing, queerness, and grief & loss. Ari weaves a background in climate policy and urban planning with training in applied buddhism, mindfulness, and end-of-life care.
KwonYin (she/her) is a channel of Pearl Consciousness, the wisdom of the emotional irritant creating iridescence. She offers her transmissions through the written word, performance art, and music. She is the creatrix of CATHARSIS, a guided deep dive to heal internalized oppression and self-repression through shadow integration, inner childcare, ancestral pattern interrupts, parts work, and deep yin embodiment practices.
GSSC includes a guest workshop with Adrianna Rizzolo & Luke Simon (spiritual practitioners) + a workshop for Asian Femmes called “PEARL,” led by Kwonyin and Kristen Wang.
