Grief Snow Globe: A Creative Approach to Restorying Grief and Loss through Narrative Therapy

ABSTRACT

This article describes a creative counseling intervention we call the grief snow globe. The purpose thereof is to assist grieving clients in externalizing emotions and restorying grief and loss experiences through narrative therapy. Narrative therapy allows clients to give new meanings to their stories and life experiences. In this article, we explain instructions for making the grief snow globe, offer suggestions for process questions to support the exercise, and present application of the grief snow globe through a case study.

KEYWORDS:

• Creativity in counseling
• grief therapy
• loss adaptation
• narrative therapy
• restorying loss