About this Event
This workshop explores creative and traditional tools for tending to grief and hardship through the making of a trollpåse.
Guided by death doula and grief worker Abby Goelzer and folk healer Rachael Gonzalez, participants will create and hand-sew their own trollpåse, choosing from an array of plants, herbs, symbols, and other magical materials. Rachael will share the folk traditions, meanings, and uses connected to these materials, helping participants consider what they might intentionally place inside their own talisman and why.
Alongside the making process, Abby and Rachael will introduce grief-tending exercises, prompts, and traditions that offer creative tools for navigating grief and hardship—whether connected to the loss of a person, friendship, relationship, home, or job, or to the current state of affairs, the endless news cycle, climate change, and the many other losses we carry.
As we enter the gateway to winter and the shadow side of the year, we’ll look to folk practices and the ways people have historically used ritual, making, and magic to seek protection, empowerment, and care during difficult times.
Participants will leave with their own custom trollpåse and a collection of practices and tools they can continue returning to in their own lives.
Event venue & nearby stays
2716 Atwood Ave, 2716 Atwood Avenue, Madison, United States
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