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Grief Stories
Facilitator Training

A six-month embodied journey to cultivate the skills for holding space and witnessing grief.

Everyone has the innate capacity to hold space for others.

Our Grief Stories Facilitator Training is a slow and embodied six-month journey designed to help you cultivate the skills to create a solid container for others to connect with their grief.

 

Through a deep exploration of the narratives we hold about loss, you'll learn how to invite others to deepen their kinship with grief and create opportunities for grief to be witnessed. 

Upcoming Training:

September - February 2026 

 

Live Call Dates: September 14, October 12, November 9, December 14, January 11, February 9

Calls will be recorded ​

9am-12pm PST

Course Price: $600 + tax

(one payment or three payments of $200.00)


We want this offering to be barrier-free. If you feel called to join, but the tuition is holding you back, please get in touch. You can reach us at hello@thegriefwell.ca

What to Expect:

  • A deepened kinship with grief through your own exploration of loss supported by Grief Stories Kinship Journal​

  • Exploring personal ritual practices to support you to feel grounded and connected to your heart​

  • Tips on hosting Grief Stories gatherings online and in person​

  • Guidance on how to create a supportive container for people to share​

  • Guidance on how to facilitate group conversations around grief​

  • Embodiment practices to support your well being before, during, and after holding space for others​

  • Support with creating a personalized 8 week syllabus for grief gatherings inspired by Grief Stories 8 weeks of gathering​

  • Access to additional grief resources​

  • Guidance on how to hold stand alone grief gatherings.​

  • Increased grief competency, which is very different from grief literacy, through exploring your own losses, this will allow you to serve with your wounds, not from them.

What Others Are Saying

As a facilitator with two decades of experience in 1:1 and group training, I can confidently say that this program has profoundly transformed me. The insights and growth I experienced during the training were truly eye-opening, leaving a lasting impact on both my personal journey through grief and my role as a teacher and facilitator. From the moment I stepped into the first day, I was not only engaged but also fulfilled in ways I never anticipated. If you're looking to deepen your own understanding of grief or to better support others in their journeys, I wholeheartedly recommend the Grief Well Training. It’s a life-changing experience that cracked my heart open! 

- Catherine

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Kinship Journal

The Grief Stories Facilitator Training is supported by Grief Stories Kinship Journal. Grief Stories Kinship journal acknowledges that grief affects us physically, cognitively, socially, and spiritually. To support this notion, this journal includes poetry, quotes, kinship practices, grief rituals, herbal supports, and writing prompts. There is ample space for reflections and expression of the experience of loss.

"We will, in truth, spend many of our hours alone with our grief. In the cover of our solitude, we encounter another layer in our apprenticeship with sorrow. Here we are asked to hold an extended vigil with loss in the well of silence, slowly ripening our sorrow into something dense and gifting to the world. Our ability to drop into this interior world and do the difficult work of metabolizing sorrow is dependent on the community that surrounds us. Even when we are alone, it is necessary to feel the tethers of concern and kindness holding us as we step off into the unknown and encounter the wild edge of sorrow.”

 

― Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

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