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Art
by Courageous Kids
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Courageous
Kids is a support group for children ages 6-18 who have
experienced the death of a significant person in their lives.
Courageous Kids is under the auspices of Hospice of Sacred Heart.
Courageous Kids provides a safe
place for children to explore their common issues and feelings
triggered by a life-threatening illness or by the death of a
loved one whether by illness, accident, homicide or suicide.
Art making and creative expression
are the keystone to the success of this program. Art is the
language of feeling and emotion. Art making provides distance
from painful feelings so that they may be expressed and processed.
When one is experiencing the helplessness and lack of control
often accompanying profound loss, taking charge of even a piece
of paper or a slab of clay is vital.
Some of the ways in which the
elementary and teen groups and families have used art are:
• Expressing feelings
when a loved one dies
• Telling the story
of the death
• Processing some ways
life has changes since the death
• Remembering the last
contact with the loved person
• Memorializing the
loved person
View samples of Courageous
Kids’ artwork (pages may take a bit longer to load):
Anger
and Confusion
The
Unknown and Powerless
Goodbye
and Grief
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