Having been unexpectedly widowed and left with a small child, Susan Bendix is familiar with grief and the standard therapies offered to aid the grieving. Using her experience as a dancer, Bendix aims to steer grief into realms of gesture that go beyond the standard talk-based approaches and provide those who work with the grieving a thoughtful, well-researched, movement-based curriculum appropriate for adults, teens, and children. 

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​Story and telling are embedded in gesture
Feelings are explored through shape
Line drawings map the course of loss
Keys to unlock the space left behind

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Bendix hopes that her curriculum will re-invigorate what humans have instinctively understood for centuries. By adapting and integrating techniques used in choreography, improvisation, and ritual, this curriculum will be a means for the intense energy of grief to take expressive form: story and telling will be embedded in gesture; feelings will be explored through shape; and line drawings will map the course of loss that is then walked through space.