Facilitators
Grief comes in waves: the only certainty is that it will ebb and flow again.
A reflective, art-based reflective circle for those who identify as women, Tides invites you to sit with the loss of your mother. This includes cis women, trans women, and non-binary or gender expansive individuals, who resonate with themes of mothers, grief, and navigating life after this loss. The aim is to bear witness to the grief in ourselves and in each other.
Participants will be guided through sharing circles and experiential activities using clay and beads. Not to eulogize the mother-daughter relationship, but to make space for its greys and nuances. You are not expected to perform your loss, or grieve the ‘right’ way. All of it is welcome here: the tenderness, the anger, the ambivalence, the love.
The waves are easier to withstand when we face them together.
In collaboration with:
Facilitators
Harsimrat Kaur Ahluwalia (she/her)
Harsimrat is a trauma-informed psychotherapist, consulting psychologist with her Master’s in Clinical Psychology and an International Certification in Narrative Therapy from the Dulwich Centre, Australia. Her psychotherapy practice of almost four years now, is rooted in a humanistic approach and a narrative lens. Her love for reading is what draws her to unpack the stories that humans carry for themselves. Beyond individual therapy services, she also holds reflective group spaces, workshops and collaborates with organisations to bring a more emotionally attuned, psychologically aware lens for conversations around emotional well-being, leadership, and relational dynamics in high-performing environments.
Harsimrat lost her mother to cancer in 2020, witnessing how the grief she felt shifted her world on its axis. It felt like being thrown into a deep endless abyss with no knowledge of what’s to come! She’s tried running away from the grief she’d experienced, only for it to catch up. She’s still grieving, paddling, surfing and healing, all while growing for the better.
Fizapreet Dhillon (she/they)
Fizapreet Dhillon is an expressive arts practitioner and psychotherapist currently practicing independently in Bangalore. Art, narrative, and poetry remain central to her approach, and psychotherapy allows her to integrate these elements in unique ways, honoring the somatic, creative, and affective experiences of people. Partition literature from Punjab and her own family history have opened her understanding of the intergenerational nature of trauma, and how it lives within the bodies in the ways people love and grieve. Beyond the therapy space, she edits academic papers, makes doodle art, reads, and takes long naps. Sometimes she also tries to write about the intersections of culture, art, identity, and mental health.
Fizapreet lost her mother to cancer in 2010, when she was just twelve. For many years, grief took the shape of silence, denial, and emotional detachment, until it began to quietly surface in unexpected ways. Over time, she has learned to allow grief to take up space in her life, to soften into it, and to let it express itself through tears, numbness, anger, tenderness, and memory.
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