Weekend Grief Support: Catharsis Theater for Loss & Relief (Half-Day)

🎭 Psychodrama-Inspired Healing for Real Life

📅 Saturday, August 30, 2025

🕐 1:00–4:30 PM (Doors open 12:30 PM)

📍 Blue Door Theater | Culver City, CA

Not performance, but presence. Not scripted, but safe. Not therapy, but deeply therapeutic.

Be witnessed. Find release. Feel less alone.

We all carry grief.

The death of someone we love.

The loss of a relationship, a home, a dream.

The slow unraveling of identity.

Burnout that will not lift.

Political heartbreak.

Spiritual drift.

Climate despair.

Even the quiet losses we cannot name but still feel in our bones.

You do not need a diagnosis to feel overwhelmed.

And not everyone wants therapy. But we all deserve a place to breathe, feel, and be witnessed.

Catharsis Theater is a safe, psychodrama-inspired, trauma-informed gathering that draws on psychodrama, sociometry, and other proven group-based methods that emerged as some of the most effective, safest, and most widely used mental health approaches of the 20th century.

For decades, these methods have helped groups of people simultaneously get unstuck, restore connection, and move forward in life. We bring them into the present — creating a space that is experiential, embodied, and shaped in real time by the people in the room.

Not therapy. Not a performance. No diagnosis. No fixing. Just truth, tenderness, and release.

If you are human and feeling, you are welcome here. This space is for anyone 21+ navigating:

• Death, loss, or mourning
• Life transitions or identity shifts
• Professional grief, caregiver fatigue, or burnout
• Emotional stuckness, silence, or longing
• A world that feels like too much

✨ Practices to feel and processs grief safely

✨ Voluntary sharing and creative exploration

✨ Group processes that build connection

✨ Body-based tools to help you reconnect with feelings, sensations, and wellness

✨ A space to be seen without judgment or pressure

🧘 Participation is always voluntary — you choose your level of engagement

🤝 Please protect confidentiality for all present

💸 Tiered sliding scale; no one turned away for lack of funds

💌 Registrants will receive directions, details, and optional prep

🌊 Join us to tend your grief, nurture your soul, and rediscover your resilient spark.

Info: Arrive anytime during this soft opening window. Settle in with gentle music, warm tea, and quiet presence. There’s space to breathe, land, and begin letting go.

Info: We’ll open the circle with a gentle grounding practice to bring our minds and bodies into the room. Together, we’ll review group agreements that create emotional safety, mutual respect, and choice—foundations for the deep work ahead.

Info: We begin together with breath, gentle body awareness, and interactive practices drawn from sociometry and storytelling.
This time is for orientation, connection, and emotional preparation—no pressure to share or perform. Just come as you are.

Info: A soft pause to stretch, hydrate, and regroup. Tea, coffee, and light snacks provided

Info: This is the heart of the gathering: a co-created process of witnessing, rolework, and shared emotional release.
No acting experience needed—just honesty, openness, and presence.

Info: We’ll end with gentle reflection, optional sharing, and practices to help carry the experience forward. Expect a quiet, respectful close to honor what’s emerged.

Info: After the formal close, the space remains open for soft connection, conversation, and gentle reentry. Some linger to share reflections, exchange contact info, or simply sit in the afterglow. This is a time to land back in your body, integrate quietly, or connect with fellow travelers before heading out.
No expectations—just a warm goodbye (for now) and an honoring of all that moved.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Blue Door, 9617 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, United States