A group learning journey exploring grief as a portal to creativity, imagination and world building.

Hosted by Christina Watson and Lucy Williams

Christina Watson
I'm a Brighton-based learning designer, facilitator and collective imagination practitioner. I’m also a song sharer, sea swimmer and proud aunt. I’ve spent the last 15 years designing and delivering educational programmes for young people and adults, ranging from mental health to climate action and creative arts. My work now focuses on re-connection – to ourselves, to each other and to the earth. My route to this work began with early childhood bereavement and a lifelong relationship with grief. After a period of burnout recovery, I’ve spent the last two years taking a deep-dive into grieving in community, training in grief tending and hosting Death x Life – a creative exploration of our relationship with death, loss and grief. I’m obsessed with the power of peer-to-peer spaces to cultivate the acts of resistance, learning, support and collective care we desperately need to face these times.

Lucy Williams
I’ve worked in education and learning for nearly 20 years, and my experience brings together learning design, facilitation, inner work and systems change. My work now is about creating spaces to ‘not make sense’, and helping myself and others to notice and navigate the (inner and outer) contradictions of living and working in these times. Through this work, I’m experimenting with emergent ideas in learning design and facilitation, and developing practices in slowing down and cyclical living, working and learning. You’ll also often find me tending to my actual garden (a love passed onto me from my late mum), and walking in the woods near my home with my dogs Phyllis and Prue. My route here involves dysregulated and hyper-speedy work cultures, burnout and more recently multiple bereavement, cumulative grief, late-discovered autism, and the subsequent knowing in my body and soul that slow work and deep inner learning are critical to practise and pursue in community.