Creative Actions
Music Composition
There are composers who wrote symphonies dedicated to a friend or loved one who had died. Music is a powerful way of using creative activities to resonate the grief within a safe place of action. Doing this repeatedly moves men closer towards a place of transformation.
Eric Clapton
Musician Eric Clapton's four-year-old son Conor died in a tragic accident in 1991. Clapton at the time was two years sober and was sent into the extreme chaos of experiencing the death of his young child. He describes this time in his autobiography as a "waking nightmare." Clapton then tells us what he did after the death: He went to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings and secluded himself and played his guitar. Here's a quote from his book14: "Many people felt that it was not good for me to be