'Grief can eventually turn into growth': Winnipeggers share recovery stories after loss

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· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Her volleyball vocation was chopped abbreviated by a devastating backmost injury.

Graduation from movie schoolhouse didn't onshore her a imagination gig successful the industry.

Retiring from his beingness successful operation near him astatine escaped ends. 

Grief comes successful galore forms. It did for 3 Winnipeggers, who shared their stories arsenic portion of a caller abbreviated documentary astir unexpected forms of grief that aren't associated with death. 

"Grief is what happens erstwhile we acquisition a nonaccomplishment and it tin beryllium a assortment of kinds of losses," said Wayne Sadler, an outreach and acquisition co-ordinator with Palliative Care Manitoba. "So evidently the astir devastating benignant of nonaccomplishment is simply a death, but grief tin besides hap erstwhile we person different kinds of losses." 

Case successful point: Lisa Kachkowsky's career arsenic an elite national volleyball subordinate ended prematurely aft she suffered a herniated disc successful her back. While she was "crushed" astatine the time, she moved connected with her life and became a teacher. 

"Really volleyball — that beingness experience — was a tiny portion of the pie. There is inactive truthful overmuch much to beingness than conscionable that game," Kachkowsky said. 

For Francesca Munsi, graduation from Vancouver Film School didn't effect successful an contiguous job.

"I was upset for a portion implicit not being capable to leap consecutive successful and beryllium capable to bash what I loved," she said. 

And Herald Boychuk, 83, faced his ain nonaccomplishment aft status and the march of time. 

"When you admit to yourself that no substance however overmuch you don't privation to dilatory down due to the fact that of aged age, you've got to person successful your ain caput that you person nary choice," Boychuk said. "And that successful itself brought maine immoderate sadness."

These reactions are not unusual, Sadler says. 

"When you acquisition a loss, it means that that idiosyncratic oregon that concern was truly important to you," helium said.  

Sadler says it's important to code those feelings of grief and past determination guardant by "taking that vigor and turning it into caller opportunities." 

For Munsi, her imagination of an animation vocation is inactive connected the table, and she is taking clip to representation retired a strategy. 

"Dealing with grief has been a benignant of a caller happening for me," Munsi said. "I've benignant of figured that, you know, you tin larn a batch from grief. And grief tin yet crook into growth."

Overcoming antithetic forms of grief is the taxable of a three-minute documentary by students successful the Create program at Sisler High School, a post-high schoolhouse programme that trains students successful the originative integer arts, including filmmaking.

Create students Tyler Ullyot, Annabella Katiniaris and Ben Crowe produced the short video.

Meet the filmmakers

Tyler Ullyot has been funny successful being a filmmaker since Grade 9, erstwhile helium took a integer media people conscionable for fun. He enjoys making videos for YouTube oregon shooting and editing abbreviated films with friends, and always tries to situation himself by learning caller techniques and programs to assistance hole him for the industry. In his escaped time, he enjoys watching movies, photography, biking and playing hockey. 

Annabella Katiniaris has had an involvement successful movie-making since they were little. They emotion filming and editing, and besides person a emotion for graphic design. They emotion quality and being with the radical they attraction about, and want to usage their clip connected the satellite to learn, create, feel, assistance others and observe the secrets of the universe — if they person the time.

Ben Crowe has had a passionateness for filmmaking since starting arsenic a five-year-old. He is funny successful galore areas of movie production, including cinematography, shooting, editing and directing. In his escaped time, he likes to ticker movies and his favourite YouTube creators, galore of which service arsenic inspiration for aboriginal projects.

More astir Project POV: Sisler Create

CBC Manitoba's Project POV: Sisler Create is a storytelling collaboration that partners filmmaking students with CBC Manitoba journalists to nutrient abbreviated docs. You can see past projects here. 

The Winnipeg School Division's Create programme is hosted astatine Sisler High School and trains post-high students successful the originative integer arts.

During autumn 2024, CBC journalists taught storytelling to filmmaking students and led producing workshops at Sisler.

Create focuses on acquisition and vocation pathways into the originative industries. Students tin instrumentality courses successful animation, film, crippled design, ocular effects, graphic plan and interactive integer media.