Creative Healing for Grief
2 Afternoons of comforting and soothing creativity
to support you when you are grieving
with Rachel Errington - Healing Arts Mentor
Josie Wood - Grief & Loss Counsellor & Coach
Sunday 1st and Sunday 8th February 2026 from 1.00pm to 4.00pm
at Holistic House in Skipton
Cost £90 with all art materials and drinks included
Together Rachel and Josie will guide you through supportive process to help you gently express whatever grief is bringing up for you, in ways that are healing, restorative and comforting.
We will create a warm group environment where you feel safe to share...your art, yourself and how grief is impacting your life.
We welcome you to join us for this supportive and therapeutic experience.
What we'll be doing in the 2 afternoons
The theme for the two sessions is 'Continuing Bonds'. It's an approach to supporting people who are grieving that was developed by 3 grief professionals. They totally changed the concept that we 'move on' after a bereavement. Instead, Continuing Bonds helps you build an ongoing connection with your loved one who has died - so that even though they are no longer here physically...you feel sustained by the love that you shared.
Here is a lovely YouTube video about it - from The Untangling Therapist
In Session 1 - we will look at - how you sense the ongoing connection with your loved one and where the bond lives on in you now. We will help you explore this to feel the strength and depth of the connection.
In Session 2 - we will look at - what you want to carry forward so you feel your loved one is continuing to live on through you. How do you want to remember them, to honour them and celebrate them? How will the love you shared be carried with you, to bring warmth and comfort to your life now and in the future.
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There will be soothing guided mediations, deeply supportive art exercises and spacious time to share through the process. Each session will enfold you in comfort and calm - so you feel safe and secure to explore what emerges for you in this group creative process.​
You don't need to be an artist to get a lot from these sessions. In fact you don't need any art experience at all. We'll be using art as a way of expressing what you are feeling inside...in ways that can go beyond words.
It can also be very calming and balancing to paint your feelings. It helps empty your mind for a while, as you enjoy the way your art unfolds and let it speak for you.
About Rachel
Rachel is a freelance artist, creative guide and soulful facilitator whose workshops weave mindfulness, intuition, and expressive arts into spaces of emotional resonance. Her work invites gentle self-discovery and communal restoration—where art becomes a sanctuary for truth, tenderness, and transformation.​​​
​​​Her own creative process moves between the quiet geometry of mandalas and the wild autonomy of abstract expression. This interplay between structure and surrender allows her to explore boundaries, flow, and the emotional textures that live beneath language. Rachel’s themes often seek to encapsulate connection, emotion, and the unspoken - giving form to feeling and voice to silence.
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Each of her workshops are an invitation to listen inward, respond instinctively, and create without judgment. Through guided meditation, intuitive mark-making, and reflective sharing, Rachel offers a space where women can reconnect with their inner rhythm and creative autonomy.
Qualifications
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BA Honours Art and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University
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Diploma in CBT
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Certified in Mindfulness Training
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Suicide Awareness Training
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Telephone Counselling
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Mental Health First Aid
About Josie
Josie has always leaned into the power of creativity as a beneficial way of supporting herself and others through grief. When her husband died when she was in her 20's - art became a way of both releasing the pain and a soothing comfort to her. She saw how art allowed things to be expressed that words could not.​
​​​This led Josie to train in Person Centred Expressive Therapy, with the Person Centred Expressive Arts Institute and to run a group known as The Creative Energy Group which ran for several years. Since then Josie often incorporates the healing arts in her therapy sessions...always making art materials available for those time when clients feel words can't express what they are feeling.
Josie has also found that there are times when art and non verbal forms of expression are helpful in discovering what is going on in the clients inner world. When there is confusion; when a client feels stuck; when there is a sense of being lost in the midst of swirling thoughts...reaching for the art materials and making a few marks on paper can be a doorway to deeper insight that is very revealing. Josie loves the way that the images which emerge often show clients aspects of themselves or a situation that were previously hidden.​​
Qualifications
​To learn more about Josie's qualifications please visit her about page on this website here.
To book your place on Creative Healing for Grief
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We look forward to supporting you
on these two comforting and gently healing afternoons
If you would like more information about the course you are welcome to get in touch.
Please call Josie on 0752 848 1228
“I could say things with color and shape that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for…”
Margaret Naumburg
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A pioneer in the therapy world who developed art therapy