Early bird $99 | Register by February 14 (discount applied at checkout)
Regular Price $125 | Effective February 15
One-day Workshop | 10am-2pm with lunch break (lunch not included)
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up early!
Refund and other policies can be found here.
Step into a space of reflection, creation, and connection as we explore the stories of loss that shape us. In this hands-on workshop, we'll uncover the duality of grief—how it holds both sorrow and the threshold to deep love. Through gentle writing prompts, mapping our stories, and meditative stitching practices, we’ll weave our experiences into cloth, drawing inspiration from the beauty and storytelling power of quilts. This workshop welcomes all who wish to honor the complexity of their journeys, offering a creative and heartfelt practice for processing grief and finding connection through art.
Please bring a journal and favorite writing utensil (blank/line-less journals recommended). All other materials provided. No sewing experience necessary.
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Clare Duplace has lived in and around Black Mountain for 20 years. She currently lives in Swannanoa, with her husband, two boys, a sweet pup named Rosie and a flock of chickens.
Clare received her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Warren Wilson College. While living in Vermont after college, she worked as a Waldorf preschool teacher and a children’s librarian at a small library, that still stamped books. Clare has received her level 1 & 2 Reiki training, a level 1 course in acupressure, graduated from a local herb school and is a flower essence practitioner.
Clare makes flower essences for grief and bereavement support, end of life support, for caregivers, and for the cycles of the moon.
Clare is also trained as a children’s yoga teacher through Black Mountain Yoga, trained in girls rites of passage and was a teacher for 12 years at The Learning Community School.
Clare has been on her own grief journey since the death of her mama in the fall of 2017. Since that time, she has been studying, diving deep into, networking, practicing and training in all things grief and death related. She is a part of the positive grief and death movement and is a trained full spectrum doula- birth, postpartum, loss, abortion and end of life.Clare is a grief consultant through The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. She is an end of life doula, lead of the grief tending team, after death care/home funeral team member, and story keeper, through The Center for Conscious Living and Dying. She has been certified in numerous grief related trainings- Integrative Thanatology (the study of death), certified grief educator, and as a grief movement guide.
Writing has always been the greatest healing tool for Clare. She has taken both the “Poetry as a Tool for Wellness” facilitator course and a course on using poetry to support those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, through the Institute for Poetic Medicine. She created and facilitated “Writing Your Grief” circles, incorporating cherished poems and excerpts from authors on grief and prompts for writing and reflection, holds monthly poetic medicine and grief tea/story circles at the Center for Conscious Living and Dying, and studied narrative medicine at Lenoir Rhyne University.Clare received an MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University, and focused on the intersection between mindfulness, grief and death, and supporting children. Clare is a certified creative grief practitioner and a trained Yoga Nidra Teacher.
Clare wishes to continue this work of weaving stories, creative practices, healing, with bereavement and end of life support, supported with the use of mindful modalities, somatic and trauma-informed/aware practices through a social justice lens and rooted in the remembering of the old ways people would gather in community during all thresholds of life and in death.