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Kara L.C. Jones
heARTist, Coach & Facilitator

Mixed Media

Kara's creativity ideas have been seen in international publications including Redbook, Totally Her, Essence Magazine, Somerset Life.

Her creative heART work has been featured in books, newsletters, and magazines including "Grief Unseen" by Laura Seftel, "Meant To Be" by Barry & Joyce Vissel, "Cup of Comfort" by Colleen Sell, MISS Foundation, A Small Victory, PS: My Baby Died, The Compassionate Friends, Good Grief Center, Somerset Digital, Fat Girls.

Kara's vlog review of Keri Smith's "This Is Not A Review" garnered over 1,500 views in its first month online and was picked up by Amazon.com as reader video review.

Kara has many of her own collections in publication also, including the book "Mrs. Duck and the Woman," a grief & healing story that's been in print since 1999 and was translated into Spanish language version. Other books and materials include "Flash of Life," Different Kind of Parenting zine, creative workbooks and MP3 podcasts for Home Workshops such as "heART of the Hero," "heART of Life & Death," and "Grief: Finding Our Way."

In the last decade, she has partnered as co-writer for an on-going series of articles on the topic of “Stillborn: the invisible death” with Joanne Cacciatore, Ph.D. at Arizona State, founder of MISS and John DeFrain, Ph.D. at University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Their pieces have been featured in the Ambiguous Loss Symposium 2005, Journal of Family Social Work (2008), and Marriage and Family Review (2008).

Over the years, Kara has also done many public speaking and teaching events, starting with a poetry as healing presentation made to an Antioch group of students exploring wholistic caregiving. In partnership with her husband Hawk, they have offered grief & creativity workshops and facilitation at MISS Foundation and other grief conferences; Burning Word and other arts festivals; Antioch, LIOS, and other university settings. Please see our Speaking page for full information.

HerStory

Kara L.C. Jones is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she studied Literary, Cultural Theory and Poetics with a minor in Child Development from Chatham College. When at CMU, Kara mentored with Hedda Sharapan, David Newell, Fred Rogers and the team at Family Communications, Inc., producers of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

In 1999, after the death of their son Dakota, Kara and her partner Hawk co-founded Kota Press (KOTA: Knowing Ourselves Thru Art), an expressive arts outreach. Through their KOTA work and in partnership with the MISS Foundation, they have been mentoring other bereaved parents and caregivers around the world, offering creative perspectives on learning to life again after loss. In 2001, they were featured on NPR in an interview with Megan Suyks who then hosted KUOW's show "The Human Condition."

Kara received her Reiki Master-Teacher certification with Masters Jeanne Robinson and Jane Valencia, having apprenticed with them since 2004. In 2007, she began an apprenticeship with Professor & Coach Sherene Zolno exploring The Hero's Journey (based on Paul Rebillot's work) as a personal and professional development tool. As a coach to private clients, Kara facilitates the exploration of grief and creativity using many tools for alternative mind, body, spiritual health. Some of her specialties include henna art, heART-making, co-active coaching, Reiki, Tapping, asking the answerable questions and more.

 

You are cordially invited to radically begin LIVING CREATIVELY!
Contact Coach Kara today.

1,000 Faces Project

In 2007, Kara began the 1,000 Faces of Mother Henna project as personal and spiritual commitment to her art. She began publishing a combination of the visual art along with written content and news in the Mother Henna blog. In May 2009, due to loss of a hard drive & back-ups, 498 of the 1000 Faces were entirely lost. But Kara had an epiphany that the 1,000 Faces were just the first thousand and that if she kept exploring her creativity, there would easily be thousands more. As we move into 2010, Kara is currently working on the second set of 1,000 Faces.

Sampling from the first 1,000

Kara's inspirations for this project include: Joseph Cambell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces"; Studying "The Hero's Journey" with Sherene Zolno; and the Jizos for Peace project which started at the Great Vow monastery near Portland. Visit the JizosForPeace.org website to learn more.

When asked about the influence of Jizo, Kara shared, "Because Jizo affected my life during the pregnancy with and stillbirth of our son, Dakota, I decided to make a vow honoring this Bodhisattva through heARTwork. Just as Jizo was a light through the darkest times for our family, I hope to offer each face, each piece of heART, as a light to those who are seeking."

Some of the 1,000 Faces are available as prints, cards, products via the Mother Henna site's Stuff page.

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Blessed Be!