Grief GuiDE TRAINING
Join Our 12-Week Journey to Become a Grievery Certified Grief Guide
Are you ready? This training prepares you to become a compassionate and skilled grief guide, ready to hold space and support others through life’s most profound transitions. Our course offers a unique blend of theory, self-reflection, and practical skills.
Sessions meet weekly, alternating between educational content and hands-on practice sessions.
2026 Application Now Open
TRAINING OVERVIEW
A 12-week immersive training in guiding grief with ritual, care, and community. By integrating somatic practices, rituals, and compassionate listening, you will gain the confidence and skills needed to guide others through the complexities of loss. Whether you're pursuing professional grief work or seeking personal growth, this transformative journey offers mentorship, community, and experiential learning rooted in care and understanding.
View the full 12-week curriculum + session outline. [PDF]
WHAT TO KNOW
- Comprehensive Skill Building: Learn how to hold space for grief—both one-on-one and in groups—drawing from insights gathered through work with over 500 grieving and dying individuals.
- Experiential, Practice-Based Learning: Engage in real-time practice sessions, guided exercises, and peer feedback to deepen your ability to offer grounded, compassionate support.
- Personalized Capstone Project: Create and share a culminating project that reflects your unique approach and integrates key learnings from the training.
- Community & Coaching: Receive steady guidance from experienced grief practitioners from all walks of life throughout the 12 weeks.
- A Holistic Framework for Grief: Explore grief beyond death—including invisible and cultural losses—and develop language to meet sorrow with care. We integrate reflection on mortality, spirituality, and personal story into your practice as a grief guide.
PRACTICAL TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
- Somatic & Mindfulness Practices: Use breathwork and movement to process and move grief through the body.
- Self-Care & Boundaries: Build a personalized care plan, resource map, and practice healthy boundaries to sustain this work.
- Rituals & Ceremony: Learn to design meaningful grief rituals and ceremonies to mark transition, honor loss, and reconnect to lineage.
- Peer Connection: Share insights and reflections within a supportive cohort of fellow learners.
YOU'LL ALSO RECEIVE
- Opportunities with The Grievery: Qualify to offer 1:1 sessions or lead community gatherings through our platform.
- A Supportive Network: Stay connected with like-hearted peers during and after the training.
- Certificate of Completion: Recognizing you as a Grievery Trained Grief Guide
Details
- Start Date: September 27, 2026
- Cadence: Weekly Live Trainings + Recordings
- Time: 2:00-4:00PM US Eastern Time
- Format: Virtual Sessions via Zoom
- Included: Certificate of Completion
If you are interested in joining the 2026 Autumn cohort please apply here.
Training PRICING
Core @ $995
Core+ @ $1,495
Core+ @ $1,495
Includes:
- Full 12-week program
- Live sessions + recordings
- Peer practice sessions
- Training manual
- Capstone project
Core+ @ $1,495
Core+ @ $1,495
Core+ @ $1,495
Includes Everything in Core, Plus:
- 4 x 1:1 mentorship sessions w/ Rebecca
- Unlimited grief gathering drop-ins during the training
This training aligned with and contributed to some deep, deep healing and letting go of old patterns. I feel ready and trust the unfolding to share my gifts in a way that I didn’t before.
Libbie, 2025 Grief Guide Training Graduate
Your Facilitators
Rebecca and Luna bring complementary practices in grief tending, somatic awareness, spiritual embodiment, ritual, and creative expression. Together, they guide you with presence, care, and depth, honoring grief as a necessary practice that connects us to ourselves, each other, and the wider world.
Rebecca Churt (she/her)
Rebecca is an end-of-life Doula and Founder of The Grievery. Her approach is guided by an understanding that grief does not need to be fixed or solved but instead must be tended to with compassion, presence, and community.
Luna Liebling (they/them)
Luna believes that grief is a necessary practice in this current world and is an act of resistance to business as usual. Their work centers on the belief that the more we can feel our grief, the more we are able to access our joy.
This was an embodied space where learning and feeling could both exist. Rebecca + Luna beautifully modeled ways to lead this work with compassion. Thank you!
Sarah, 2025 Grief Guide Training Graduate
VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE TRAINING
Guided Meditation (5 mins)
Listen to a guided meditation led by Rebecca.
Opening Message (3 mins)
Listen to the introductory welcome message from Rebecca.
More About Us
We bring an experienced perspective as grief guides and death doulas, known for our compassion and innovative approach. Our non-clinical grief support focuses on community building and the art of holding space. Whether working one-on-one or with groups, our offerings are designed for educational and ritual-based gatherings, fostering connection and healing.
Group Commitments:
Our time together will be grounded in principles of deep listening, humility, and bearing witness. We will practice being present without trying to fix or advise, and we will treat all shared experiences with confidentiality and care.
Who Should Attend:
- Therapists, counselors, and social workers.
- Death doulas and end-of-life care practitioners.
- Coaches and holistic practitioners, including those working with psychedelics and other therapeutic modalities.
- Community leaders serving marginalized groups.
- Individuals with lived grief experiences seeking to support others.
If you are experiencing a very recent loss, however, you may wish to pause and consider whether this is the right time for this deeper work. Trust your intuition about what feels most supportive for your healing right now.
Looking for more information?
You can always contact us if you want help discerning timing or have questions about the training.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Grief is a natural, multifaceted response to loss that touches our emotional, physical, and spiritual lives. Not all grief includes loss. It extends beyond death to include transitions or changes in relationships, identity, health, and our sense of the world. We recognize grief as an ongoing process—one that calls for tending, compassion, and connection, rather than quick fixes or tidy resolutions.
Grief is not something to be rushed or “solved.” We honor a pace that respects the body, the heart, and the stories that need to be witnessed with patience and presence. While support and compassionate witnessing can help ease the weight of grief, it is not a destination or endpoint. Healing emerges through full engagement with sorrow, through feeling, reflecting, and connecting with others. It is a lifelong practice, a cycle we return to again and again, and a way to cultivate deeper presence, understanding, and care for ourselves and those around us.
Each session is a soft place to land, where you’re welcomed exactly as you are. We start by offering grounding practices, somatic check-ins, and titrate between learning and practice. You’re never required to share; you can speak, listen quietly, or simply be held by the collective space. Together we aim to create a supportive learning environment where your experience is honored, witnessed, and met with care.
Yes. This is the second year. We first developed this training in 2023 and piloted it with several organizations. About 500 people have run through a version of this content before.
The Grievery is a secular community. Although many religions support those going through grief, we intentionally want to hold space for people to grieve outside formal devotional settings.
We use Zoom. A link will be sent to your email immediately upon registration. Our gathering spaces are opened about 5 mins before the start of the scheduled session.
In an attempt to create a shared online experience where people can feel seen and as part of something larger, we encourage all participants to please keep their video on. Of course, that is always optional.
We understand that schedules and circumstances change. Please try to let us know at least 24 hours in advance of a scheduled session, that way we can keep the group updated.
At this time, we’re not able to offer discounts or scholarships. If participants choose to contribute more than the suggested rate, those additional funds are directed toward supporting others who may need payment flexibility.
Given the time, care, and resources required to create, update, and hold this training with integrity, we won’t be offering discounts or special pricing for the 2026 cohort.
If you need a payment plan or have questions about payment options, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re happy to work with you to find a solution that feels sustainable and supportive.
We recognize that life is unpredictable, and we aim to hold a policy that supports both our participants and our ability to offer this training sustainably. Because this training is intimate and each place in the training is intentionally held and carefully prepared for, all payments are non-refundable once your placement in the training is confirmed/accepted.
In certain extenuating circumstances, we’ll do our best to support you by exploring the possibility of pausing your participation and continuing with a future cohort, depending on availability.
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