Facilitator: Dr. Julie Shaw

Feeling ready to approach your grief journey with more intention and creativity? Join Dr. Julie Shaw, Founder of Hello I’m Grieving as she facilitates Grief Empowerment: Creating Your Grief Manifesto is a 60-90 minute workshop designed to help you do just that. This creative and reflective process will empower you to express your emotions, set meaningful intentions, and shape how you want to show up for yourself and others. You’ll leave with a powerful one-page grief manifesto that you can turn to for strength, grounding, and guidance because grief is a long road. Let's come together, reflect, and create in a space that honors where you are and where you're going.

Facilitator: Charlene Lam

You're invited to attend a film screening of Curating Grief: Loss and Objects and a Q&A with Charlene Lam, founder of The Grief Gallery. In Curating Grief: Loss and Objects, filmmaker Jamie Max Lee and Grief Coach Charlene Lam invite audiences on an emotional and introspective journey through grief. The film delves into the intricacies of loss, and the objects left behind after a loved one dies. Set against beautiful scenes of Lisbon, this ambitious project shows Jamie and Charlene bravely sharing cherished objects from their departed parents. Through the lens of Charlene’s expertise, the film also becomes a poignant exploration of the ties that bind individuals to their lost loved ones through objects and stories. Film length: 33min, followed by discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Erika Lam

Ablon, also called Hilot, is a traditional Filipino hands on body work focused on restoring balance and alignment to the physical, mental, spiritual, and energetic planes. 10 minute seated Ablon sessions will be offered. Please sign up at Erika Lim's table during the tabling portion of the event to reserve a spot.

Facilitator: Mangda Sengvanhpheng

A favored and effective way of tending to grief is through holistic and creative practices, nature's gifts, and the presence of others. Let's commune with all these elements, along with the support of BACII’s beloved flower essence grief potion. This potion becomes a companion in helping us soften and expand as we practice letting go.

Together we'll embark on a letting go meditation, express ourselves through art, storytelling and then close with a baci ritual.
Join Mangda from BACII for an enriching experience to embrace our lives, our grief, and our joys.

Meet your guide ~ Mangda Sengvanhpheng is an artist, death doula, and the founder of BACII - a platform that focuses on loss and grief while providing services and offerings that renew our engagement to life. Her life and death work is guided by her Laotian last name, which means “the light of the full moon.” Mangda’s work has been featured in Vogue, VICE, NY Mag’s Curbed, Brydie, Chacruna Institute and more.

ACCA recognizes the important role that caregivers play in the lives of persons with chronic, serious, and advanced illnesses and we support caregivers by addressing their personal and caregiving needs. ACCA's Workbook for Caregivers is a robust tool that helps caregivers organize their care recipient's needs, build their caregiving support network, advocate for support and help, and take care of their own physical and mental health to make your caregiving journey easier.

This workshop explains the various ways people may experience the manifestations of their grief- emotionally, physically, spiritually, and cognitively. This is an interactive workshop with opportunities for the audience to share. We also go over common myths and perceptions about grief.