One-day Workshop Taught in Person at Industry City
Saturday, December 13, 2025
1:00 - 4:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$125 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: This class will not be recorded.
Losing a beloved pet or person is incredibly difficult. We feel the absence of their presence in our daily life. We can keep them close through veneration, in which we tell their stories, talk about them, listen to their favorite songs, make their favorite meals, or create beautiful art in their honor. We can also create memorial dioramas—small altars or shrines to memorialize our beloveds and their lives, so that they can be gone but not forgotten.
In this day long workshop, we will—with guidance and support from death doula Lauren Seeley—create our own memorial dioramas for a dead loved one. Over the course of the day, we will also learn about the importance of memorializing, honoring our beloveds, and creating in our grief, as well as the history of altars, shrines, and preservation both in public and private spaces. Please bring a photo of a pet or person being honored, an object that belonged to them or reminds you of them.
Lauren Seeley is a death and grief doula for pets & humans. She is a death educator and facilitator of the Silent Book Club Of Death NYC, and her own book club The Ahhsweetdeath Book Club with assigned monthly reading and author talks. She is a memorialist & curator for funerals, altars, memorial spaces, designer, illustrator, reiki practitioner, and creative grief artist. She has taught Reliquary Grief workshops at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Cloisters location, and is a Met partner facilitating and speak around the topic of death and art. She resides in Brooklyn, NY and works with a funeral practice in Brooklyn as well.
One-day Workshop Taught in Person at Industry City
Saturday, December 13, 2025
1:00 - 4:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$125 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: This class will not be recorded.
Losing a beloved pet or person is incredibly difficult. We feel the absence of their presence in our daily life. We can keep them close through veneration, in which we tell their stories, talk about them, listen to their favorite songs, make their favorite meals, or create beautiful art in their honor. We can also create memorial dioramas—small altars or shrines to memorialize our beloveds and their lives, so that they can be gone but not forgotten.
In this day long workshop, we will—with guidance and support from death doula Lauren Seeley—create our own memorial dioramas for a dead loved one. Over the course of the day, we will also learn about the importance of memorializing, honoring our beloveds, and creating in our grief, as well as the history of altars, shrines, and preservation both in public and private spaces. Please bring a photo of a pet or person being honored, an object that belonged to them or reminds you of them.
Lauren Seeley is a death and grief doula for pets & humans. She is a death educator and facilitator of the Silent Book Club Of Death NYC, and her own book club The Ahhsweetdeath Book Club with assigned monthly reading and author talks. She is a memorialist & curator for funerals, altars, memorial spaces, designer, illustrator, reiki practitioner, and creative grief artist. She has taught Reliquary Grief workshops at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Cloisters location, and is a Met partner facilitating and speak around the topic of death and art. She resides in Brooklyn, NY and works with a funeral practice in Brooklyn as well.
