This 4-week creative grief series offers gentle support through the holiday season.
Each Monday we’ll make a simple project — from memory maps and letters, to collages of meaningful objects — and conclude with a remembrance lantern lit in community.
No art experience needed, just your presence and willingness to create. Join for the full series or drop in for individual sessions.
Each evening begins with a grounding practice and opening circle, followed by spacious time for creative expression.
You’ll receive simple guidance for the project of the week, along with quiet support as you make it your own.
We’ll close together with reflection, optional sharing, and a short ritual to help you carry the work into your week.
Week 1 – Nov 17: Memory Maps We’ll begin by creating visual “maps” of your relationship — places, traditions, and milestones that anchor your loved one’s presence in your life.
Week 2 – Nov 24: Letters Across the Veil
This session focuses on expression through words. You’ll write and decorate a holiday letter or newsletter to your loved one, layering it with collage and imagery to share updates, longings, or stories.
Week 3 – Dec 1: Memory Objects Collage
Using images, colors, and textures, we’ll build a collage of the everyday objects, foods, and places that carry your loved one’s presence. These ordinary things often hold extraordinary meaning, reminding us of connection in daily life.
Week 4 – Dec 8: Lantern of Remembrance
We’ll close the series by creating a simple lantern — decorated with words, colors, and symbols — and lighting them together in a circle of remembrance. This shared ritual offers a gentle way to carry light into the holiday
This series is offered with flexibility — you can register for the full 4 weeks, or join individual sessions as drop-ins.
Full 4-Week Series: Sliding scale $130 (includes all supplies)
Drop-In Sessions: Sliding scale $40
Scholarships are available — no one will be turned away for financial reasons.
Your Facilitator: Carly Flagg, MA, PCC
Hands at Heart Coaching, LLC
Carly Flagg is a Professionally Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), with advanced training in creativity-based coaching, creative grief support, compassion fatigue education, trauma-informed coaching, and end-of-life doula care. She founded Hands at Heart Coaching, LLC to companion helping professionals and others navigating burnout, grief, and life transitions through practices that reconnect heart, hands, and purpose.
Blending creativity and compassion, Carly’s approach centers on restoring presence, imagination, and meaning as antidotes to overwhelm and disconnection. Her work is grounded in compassion-centered coaching principles and shaped by studies in counseling, narrative therapy, nonviolent communication (NVC), compassion cultivation, and the Enneagram.
A lifelong maker and expressive artist, Carly believes that creativity offers both language and medicine for the human experience. Her aesthetic practice spans gardening, painting, collage, fabric arts, dance, theatre, movement, film, music, and more. Each practice has taught her a way of listening for what wants to be made and allowing healing to unfold through the process.
Before founding Hands at Heart Coaching, Carly spent nearly 25 years as a college professor and sign language interpreter. She now draws on that deep well of experience to create spaces for reflection, belonging, and wholehearted expression.
Carly lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband and their three-legged hound dog, who dreams of becoming a visiting therapy dog. She finds joy in traveling to South Korea to visit her daughter, tending her core value of PLAY, and making space for curiosity, color, and connection wherever she can.