Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 10:30 am PST/12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Who: Bereaved Parents
Facilitator: Holly Ann Abel
This 90-minute workshop offers bereaved parents a space to connect with the memory of their baby or babies through the power of writing. Using guided prompts, participants will be supported in crafting a heartfelt letter to their child, expressing love, grief, and whatever feelings they wish to share. The session provides a safe, compassionate environment for reflection, healing, and connection. Participants are encouraged to share their letters or thoughts if it feels right for them, fostering a sense of community and support.
Workshop Objectives:
Create a safe, compassionate space for bereaved parents to connect with their child/children through writing.
Use writing as a tool for emotional expression and healing.
Provide gentle prompts to help guide the process of letter-writing, allowing for personalized reflection.
Foster connection and mutual support among participants through voluntary sharing and listening.
Encourage participants to honor their grief while nurturing their bond with their baby or babies.
This workshop aims to support parents in their journey of healing, providing an opportunity to express their deep love, honor their child’s memory, and find a sense of peace and healing through the written word.
Cost: Free
Appreciated Donation: $10.00
Choose the "Pay what you Want Amount" at registration to customize your donation amount.
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The journey of love, loss and life after loss looks different for everyone. Return to Zero: HOPE will be hosting a workshop series designed to provide supportive spaces for the diversity of our lived realities that come with our individual pregnancy and infant loss experiences. Our hope is to provide helpful resources and tools that encourage holistic healing. These workshops will uniquely support parents and providers through a trauma informed, resilience-focused, somatic approach.
These workshops will be interactive. There will be time to share, time to write and reflect, and in some sessions opportunity more movement. Please have available a water bottle, paper and pencil, and a quiet space.
Consider joining a workshop if:
-It is true to your lived experience
-You want to better understand a topic to support loved ones
-It piques your interest
-It feels like it might be supportive to where you are on your journey.All are welcome.
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Holly Ann is passionate about helping others find hope and joy within their grief journey after she lost her daughter, Magnolia, who was stillborn, and experienced a miscarriage of her “Poppy Seed.” A former first grade teacher, Holly Ann realized the importance of not only telling her own story of love and loss, but honoring other babies gone too soon, which led to her writing a children’s book and starting a nonprofit. She lives in Oskaloosa, KS with her husband and daughter, Marigold, where she is a family photographer.