Sheila K Collins PhD
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 817 706-4967
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I am here to reimagine...
Grieving is a life-long art we need to get good at. The arts, whether performed on our behalf, or by our own art-making are powerful tools to help us transform the pain of loss, and live our best lives.
My Story
After an early career as a professional dancer I became a social worker, therapist, and social work professor. When my own life handed me so many invitations to grieve–I turned to the arts and they did not disappoint. I published a book about my experiences accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death and was surprised that many people seemed afraid ...
After an early career as a professional dancer I became a social worker, therapist, and social work professor. When my own life handed me so many invitations to grieve–I turned to the arts and they did not disappoint. I published a book about my experiences accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death and was surprised that many people seemed afraid to read it. This put me on a several yearlong path writing weekly blogs and researching how grief got such a bad reputation. This has resulted in my recently published book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Art-Making Help Us Grieve and Live Our Best Lives and my offering a five week course on Reimagine based on the book. Since 2006 I have directed and performed with the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe, often responding to topics of grief and loss.
After an early career as a professional dancer I became a social worker, therapist, and social work professor. When my own life handed me so many invitations to grieve–I turned to the arts and they did not disappoint. I published a book about my experiences accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death and was surprised that many people seemed afraid to read it. This put me on a several yearlong path writing weekly blogs and researching how grief got such a bad reputation. This has resulted in my recently published book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Art-Making Help Us Grieve and Live Our Best Lives and my offering a five week course on Reimagine based on the book. Since 2006 I have directed and performed with the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe, often responding to topics of grief and loss.
My Community Resources
The Art of Grieving How Art and Art Making Help Us
Learn the Magical Ways
Art Transforms Grieving!
(No art skills required.)
Stillpoint: A Self-Care Playbook For Caregivers
Being a caregiver is a hazardous occupation, whether it’s a chosen helping profession or a family responsibility that’s chosen you.
Warrior Mother: An Award-winning Memoir
Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal. An award-winning memoir.
Upcoming Reimagine events
Reimagine Events
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care December 17th
Join us for an hour of playful body wisdom, exformation, and radical self-care tools & techniques taught by two dancing social workers. Learn & practice the five skills of Self-Care. *InterPlay Event.
Tue. December 17
Zoom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
$0 - $50
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care December 10th
Join us for an hour of playful body wisdom, exformation, and radical self-care tools & techniques taught by two dancing social workers. Learn & practice the five skills of Self-Care. *InterPlay Event.
Tue. December 10
Zoom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
$0 - $50
Previous Reimagine events
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care December 3rd
December 03, 2024
The Art of Grieving: How Art & Art-Making Help Us Grieve
November 24, 2024
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care October 29th
October 29, 2024
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care October 22nd
October 22, 2024
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care October 15th
October 15, 2024
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care October 8th
October 08, 2024