Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining the pieces and illuminating the cracks with gold. In this five-module course, we will draw upon kintsugi as an art form and explore it as a metaphor for healing in body, mind, and spirit.​ To re-member is to bring together parts of ourselves that have been broken, lost, rejected, or forgotten.

Through reflection, storytelling, and shared practice, we will consider how failure can become a teacher, imperfection a source of beauty, and brokenness part of—rather than an obstacle to—wholeness. We will discover that healing does not mean returning to who we once were, but becoming more fully who we are. 

This is not a course about hiding our wounds or making suffering beautiful. It is an invitation to gather the scattered pieces of our lives, honor what they have taught us, and become whole—not as we once were, but as we are now. More than repairing what is broken, kintsugi teaches us how to re-member who we are.

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You will leave with a deeper understanding of your own life story, practices for meeting imperfection and change with greater compassion, and new ways of finding meaning in what has been broken, lost, or transformed.