Encounters with loss & creative healing:
A daylong therapeutic, creative retreat
What if we were to approach death, loss, and remembrance through curiosity, movement, story, and making? This November 1 workshop brings together creative and critical practices for exploring mortality, remembrance, and our relationships with those who are no longer with us and the parts of our lives that we have lost. Participants will move between reflection, conversation, prompted writing, and embodied activities, paying particular attention to the ways places and objects invite us to remember, feel, and make meaning. Rather than seeking definitive answers about death, Encountering Loss and Healing creates room for uncertainty, encounter, and discovery. Together, we’ll experiment with ways of noticing what loss and creative healing reveals about how we live, remember, relate, and belong.
Through guided reflection, conversation, and creative activities, participants will consider how we remember the dead, how landscapes and objects carry memory, and how encounters with mortality can change the ways we understand the living. No special knowledge or experience is required—just curiosity and a willingness to explore questions that are at once deeply personal, cultural, and communal.
Reconnect with the values that matter most to you, uncover your empowering beliefs, and start to move forward and heal with your whole self.
This is a space for slowing down, listening inward, and discovering what wants your attention now.
Led by an experienced therapy and writing team, in a small-group dynamic setting.
Tracy has more than 25 years in therapy practice and journeying with people through grief and trauma. Michelle is the professor that people go to when they need guidance to bring their thoughts to life on paper. She is masterful at gently prompting reflective writing. Together we will walk, observe, reflect, and talk with one another as we explore this journey together.
Led by
Tracy Wharton, PhD, LCSW-C with Michelle Lafrance, PhD
Think Forward Therapy Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Location will be outdoors, in Montgomery County, MD- provided after registration.
The site is broadly accessible to the area where we will be meeting together, but the path is not paved and may be uneven. The additional space that we may walk on is unpaved but well-marked. It may be uneven and narrow for ambulatory devices.
Included in registration: Small group work, materials, lunch & snacks.
To join this event- you have two options:
Regular registration, value of $1500.
Cost for this one-time live event - $500
Click HERE:
https://book.carepatron.com/Think-Forward-Therapy/All?p=a9FVIEemSaWs4QQSZf3TLw&i=SSKX7vyP
Reduced Cost Registration is offered on the honor code, no documentation is required.
$250
Register HERE: https://book.carepatron.com/Think-Forward-Therapy/Tracy?p=a9FVIEemSaWs4QQSZf3TLw&s=bn.RECia&i=YVihF8k3
**Notes about registration:
When you click through to register, you will complete forms and payment in a HIPAA-secured platform called CarePatron.
Be sure that you are registering for the correct choice- either Intensive Registration, or Reduced Cost Intensive Registration.
You will be asked to fill out some basic information about yourself. You will also be asked to sign several disclosure forms- these are necessary for any therapeutic work led by a licensed mental health provider.
Credit card information collected in the CarePatron portal will be kept with your personal information and protected on that encrypted site only.
Please feel free to reach out to Tracy at drtracywharton@gmail.com or 508-280-8715 with any questions or for alternate payment arrangements.