The Grief Deck: Rituals, Meditations, and Tools for Moving through Loss

Jenik, Adriene

ISBN 10: 1648961444 ISBN 13: 9781648961441

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2022

Synopsis

No matter where you are in your grief journey, The Grief Deck offers sensitive and supportive tools to help you process your emotions.

Its sixty illustrated cards, created by a diverse array of artists and grief workers, offer thoughtful prompts, simple activities, richly textured artwork, and grounding resources for coping with loss.

Everyone faces grief in their own way, and in their own time. The Grief Deck provides accessible entry points to meet you where you are in that process, and activities to guide you forward. The sixty beautiful cards in this deck include meditations for reconnecting with your body and senses and taking moments to reflect in nature; prompts to help you address anxiety, hold a vigil, or create rituals of remembrance; and guidance on finding time for intentional rest and developing daily routines. These activities-each one paired with artwork for reflection-can be explored in any order, at any time as needed.

Although each person's journey is unique, this interactive deck will help you constructively address grief in daily life, a little bit at a time.

About this title

About the Author

Adriene Jenik (she/they) is an artist, educator, and end-of-life doula who resides in the high desert of California. Jenik is a professor at the School of Art, Arizona State University, affiliate faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Desert Humanities Center, and a global futures scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. The Artists' Literacies Institute was established in 2018 by artist, teacher, and producer Andrew Freiband, to be a research agency for artists, putting artists' unique ways of knowing to use in building a just, sustainable, post-capitalist and post-colonial world. As a supplement and corrective to contemporary Western art education, and as an agent and advocate for artists in developing meaningful civic and social engagements, ALI helps artists bring forth the knowledge they produce as their primary contribution, circumventing commodity markets and undercutting the exploitative economy within which artists are typically caught. ALI is a partner within the NYC Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, from which The Grief Deck emerged.

From the Back Cover

No matter where you are in your grief journey, The Grief Deck offers sensitive and supportive tools to help you process your emotions. Its sixty illustrated cards, created by a diverse array of artists and grief workers, offer thoughtful prompts, simple activities, richly textured artwork, and grounding resources for coping with loss. Everyone faces grief in their own way, and in their own time. The Grief Deck provides accessible entry points to meet you where you are in that process, and activities to guide you forward. The sixty beautiful cards in this deck include meditations for reconnecting with your body and senses and taking moments to reflect in nature; prompts to help you address anxiety, hold a vigil, or create rituals of remembrance; and guidance on finding time for intentional rest and developing daily routines. These activities-each one paired with artwork for reflection-can be explored in any order, at any time as needed. Although each person's journey is unique, this interactive deck will help you constructively address grief in daily life, a little bit at a time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648961444
• ISBN 13: 9781648961441
• Binding: Cards
• Edition number: 1