Drawing for Mortals
Illustration / Facilitation (2024 onwards)
Funded project through Brass Bathtub CIC. Delivered as part of Good Grief Weston
Driven by personal experiences of love and loss, I cultivated an unconventional artistic approach to contemplating deep questions on death and end-of-life planning. Wanting to share my techniques with grassroots community, ‘Life Handover’ was born, allowing me to share creative exercises using compassion, curiosity, and at times, humour. By considering emotionally challenging and nuanced topics in this way, participants unearth profound personal insights, greater clarity, and a determination to tackle those end-of-life planning tasks.
Through Life Handover I discovered a need within my community to creatively explore more emotional and philosophical responses to mortality. I directed the transformational power of my facilitation style to create engaging mixed discipline sessions
Responding to further needs in my community whilst funded for research and development, exploring emotional and philosophical responses to mortality. Participants discover a nourishing connection with themselves and other in the group.
Participant testimonials:
“I felt significantly more in tune and grateful for each and every one of all these bones we have inside.”
“It felt really safe and non-judgemental.”
“I realised how I’ve taken my body and health for granted. This workshop helped me find some compassion for what I am physically, and that it matters that I age in union of all that I am.”
“Laura’s empathy and artistic skills created a deeply thoughtful and inspiring environment”