Birdhouse Project: Embracing Life through Loss
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Building a birdhouse might not seem like an obvious way to deal with grief but it’s exactly what trauma survivors will be doing this weekend.
The University of Kansas-Edwards campus in Overland Park is offering a three-hour workshop titled “The Birdhouse Project.” Instructor Kris Munsch developed the program after losing his teenage son Blake in a car accident in 2005.
“Honestly I was trying to save my own life,” Munsch, an instructor at Fort Hays State University, told FOX 4.
Munsch has taught the workshop across the country and says buidling a birdhouse is a metaphor for rebuilding lives after a traumataic experience, be it divorce, job loss or the death of a child, adding “I look at it as a collaboration of the heart, minds and hands.”
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