Using Photography to Process Grief

Using Photography to Process Grief

Art + Wellness | Available

114 W 30th Street Ste 200 Winston-Salem, NC 27105 United States
Generations Ctr. Conference Room - 602
4/1/2025-4/22/2025
10:00 AM-11:30 AM EST on Tue
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$120.00
$108.00

Using Photography to Process Grief

Art + Wellness | Available

Grief and the grieving process are an integral part of the human experience, yet few of us have the necessary skills to engage in or talk about it. Art and creativity can help us tell our stories of grief and loss by focusing on ourselves, the losses in our lives, and how we continue to honor, love, and remember our pasts. 


As a grief coping tool, photography can: 

· provide a needed respite from grief 

· be used to explore and express difficult thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations 

· create images of healing, restoration, and hope 


This class is great for photographers, artists at heart, or the curious wanting to explore the symbiotic relationship between contemplative practice and photography. You can use whatever camera that is available to you, including your cell phone.


Timothy Auman

I am an ordained lay Buddhist, certified mindfulness teacher, and former university chaplain dedicated to the application of Taoist and Zen thought to the issues of everyday life. As a visual artist, my approach to photography focuses on learning (or perhaps we could say re-learning) how to see. My work is influenced by the Miksang (the Tibetan word for “good eye”) movement, having studied with John McQuade and Miriam Hall for many years. In contemplative photography, we focus on taking the time to actually see, to become aware of and present with what is actually happening in the phenomenal world, and then create an equivalent image with our camera. The main difference between Miksang Contemplative Photography and other forms of photography is that Miksang is based on clear perception before an overlay of thoughts, interpretations, preferences, story lines, likes and dislikes, what we think might make a good image and so forth arise. Meditation, dharma teachings and contemplation are woven into all I teach. If you want to know more about contemplative photography, please sign up for a class.