ADD JOY-INFUSED AFTERCARE TO YOUR SERVICES
Grief Support Program
GetSomeJoy is partnering with funeral homes, healthcare providers, schools, companies and community centers to offer creative wellness tools and foster welcoming spaces to find connection, clarity, support, and joy in raggedy times. Through these collaborations, we will help normalize and support joy-infused conversations around grief and loss.
GetSomeJoy’s Grief Support Program combines mental health and grief workshops with joy-infused grief resources and connection to ongoing care.
What’s included?
Monthly grief space for your clients/community or your employees/partners +
Digital or print grief + loss resource guides with your info on the cover + inside +
Wellness resource newsletters with tools for thriving, local support, and links to your site
“To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.”
bell hooks,
All About Love: New Visions
Grief Support Program Breakdown
Gatherings
Grief + Loss Peer Support Groups allow community members to explore topics around grief and loss in a safe, joy-infused space. Attendees can express themselves without judgment, engage and offer support, and receive tools for navigating devastating transitions and emotions around loss.
Literary Therapy: Navigating Grief + Loss is a monthly writing workshop series by GetSomeJoy that uses mindfulness, writing, storytelling, resource sharing, and other joy-infused creative wellness activities to aid community members in processing + cultivating tools to navigate grief and loss.
Supportive Tools + Resources (tailored to your community + audience)
griefKit: Crowdsourced tools and considerations for raggedy times is a multimedia guide witharticles, books, recipes, communities, music, movement, poetry, and other considerations for navigating loss. Its offerings and activities can support anyone touched by grief or devastating transition. Download or browse by section here.
The Joy Report Newsletter supplements group workshops with events, good news, community resources, plus tools for processing grief and finding joy. Can include greetings from your organization.
A WIN-WIN SITUATION
3 ways offering GetSomeJoy’s Grief Support Program to your community benefits you:
Be a source of ongoing support + comfort for your community.
Help normalize conversations + preparation around grief + loss.
Cultivate a culture of mutual aid and responsibility.
grief support partnerships
grief support partnerships
Here are a few of our joy-infused collaborations, programs, and activations focused on supporting and empowering folks in raggedy times.
[CONFERENCE + COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT]
finding joy in challenging community service
We offered a joy-infused space for reflection at the 2024 National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association Convention + Expo with our Community Literary Therapy Wall, Literary Therapy Postcards, and Grief Support Program.
Our mission was to be a beacon of joy in a sea of grief and bereavement-flavored products.
With our two six-foot bright yellow Community Literary Therapy Walls, we invited funeral directors, morticians, and other community members to share about prioritizing their mental health and finding joy while doing difficult but important work.
We distributed digital and print editions of our multimedia grief resource, griefKit: Crowsourced tools and considerations for raggedy times and explored the benefits of offering customized, co-branded print griefKits to their clients, employees, and families.
And we had fried chicken stickers, too.
[CONFERENCE/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT]
creating space to share, process, and collaborate amidst transition + uncertainty
We collaborated with the Hetrick Martin Institute to cultivate a welcoming, joy-infused environment for staff and leaders to reflect, celebrate themselves + each other, and speak openly about and develop creative tools for navigating the mental and emotional impacts of shifting political, professional, financial, and cultural dynamics and the associated loss, instability, fear, and stress.
We combined strategies from our Literary Therapy Writing Program and our Mental Health Check-Ins to center joy and amplify protective factors while unpacking individual and collective traumas, sadness, and hopelessness with celebration, community building, storytelling, and resource sharing.
And fried chicken stickers.
What does joy mean to you? How does it look, feel, sound, taste?
Joy is light, warmth, safety, laughter, honesty.
Tastes like chocolate.
What parts of serving your community bring you joy, satisfaction, or a sense of purpose?
tutoring someone when they realize their thesis argument or what the texts were about or how they relate to their lives o something that caters to them
What’s a ritual, resource, recipe, or mindset that has helped you cope, thrive, or find joy? How has this helped?
Slowing down…taking in moments with mindfulness + gratitude, tapping in and tuning out, embodying my peace and intentionally turning away from noise or harmful inner chatter...
Give yourself an award for something you did or didn’t do this month. What’s the award?
Write your acceptance speech.
The “Did you drink water today?” Award!
Firstly I’d like to thank all the times I was dehydrated & feeling thirsty for a reason. To all the times where I went for soda rather than water. I’ve had a longstanding feud with H20 but I am thankful to have found peace with it. To my water bottle, you were expensive but you constantly bully me into remembering to drink. Without you I would still be feeling thirsty for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
What’s a ritual, resource, recipe, or mindset that has helped you cope, thrive, or find joy? How has this helped?
Resource: Essex Hemphill’s “Love is a Dangerous Word”
Ritual: working out in the morning and joking with partner after
creating a menu for a “fake” restaurant
Mindset: Reality is a reflection of ourselves for coping (but people’s actions are a reflection of themselves)
Mindset: “I am here for something”
What’s a ritual, resource, recipe, or mindset that has helped you cope, thrive, or find joy? How has this helped?
braised short rib,
garlic mashed potatoes,
& “amish” peanut butter pie