GriefCalendar™
Online Gatherings from Leading Experts on Grief & Loss
For Grief's GriefCalendar™ offers events to help navigate grief through insights from leading experts on grief and loss. Topics include general loss, parent loss, spouse loss, and child loss and will provide helpful ideas and resources to start the healing process. Participants can listen, learn and ask their questions.
Graceful Endings: Navigating Caregiving, Death, and Grief
Thresholds Conference is an annual conference that unites families, friends, healthcare professionals, and caregivers in meaningful conversations about end of life care. This year's conference is designed to educate caregivers and family members on what to except at the end of life and how to navigate the dying process and grief. Sign up
Living and Writing After Loss
Join grief expert and author Claire Bidwell Smith in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about reconciling the anxiety and loss that accompanies grief – and about the writing process that can bring hope, transformation, and healing when we lose someone we love. Sign up
Let’s Experience: Letters to Life
Intended for those grieving the loss of a person or being, this experiential workshop uses letter-writing, somatic practices, and gentle movement to appreciate the beauty of the day-to-day. Sign up
Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Lachi and Jim LeBrecht
Let's honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with Lachi and Jim LeBrecht, two award-winning leaders in the arts and disability rights. This program features ASL interpretation and live transcription. Our other featured guest is Annie Lanzillotto: author, poet, songwriter, performer, and Reimagine community collaborator.
Curating a Grief Gallery
Creating an exhibition about your loved one is a creative, powerful way of telling their stories. Learn how with curator and grief coach Charlene Lam of The Grief Gallery. Sign up
Candid discussion about Living with Loss, One Day at a Time
Join author Rachel Kodanaz to for a thought-provoking conversation and ideas to provide hope, optimism, introspection, and self-discovery to your life after losing a loved one. Sign up
Let Me IntervYOU!
A special interactive event! Using a Letter Board, the hosts will randomly pick a letter and then guests will share a word starting with that letter, which may lead to stories of your loved one. Sign up
Flowing with Grief
A yoga class specifically structured to help the bereaved connect with their feelings and promote healing. Sign up
WAVES - Grief and Remembrance Storytelling Event
Join Rachel Cargle and Death Doula Sula Johnson for a community grief storytelling event. This is a place for you to bring what you’re keeping inside. Feel the power of saying your loved one’s name. Tell a story to an anonymous group, allowing your memories to take on new life, or tell a story that relates to your grief journey. Sign up
End Of Life Midwives In Conversation
Join End Of Life Midwives Birgitta and Cheserae for a conversation about your relationship with grief. Birgitta and Cheserae will help create space to ponder how you can live life to its fullest every day and approach dying and death with love, compassion, and non-judgment. Sign up
Grief Gallery
Join curator and grief coach Charlene Lam for The Grief Gallery's monthly gathering for community sharing and creative inspiration. Feel free to bring an object to share in our imaginary grief gallery: An item or the story of an item you've kept after a loved one died. Sign up
Virtual Death Café
Gather in a virtual environment to talk openly and tenderly about death and dying.There is no set agenda, just an open and safe space to share your experiences, feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Sign up
The Art of Grieving - Through Guided Neurographica Drawing Processes
Explore grief with the help of drawing. The neurographica drawing method is a conscious, therapeutic, transformational art process that is meant to help you express and process difficult emotions, resolve inner conflicts, release blockages, and discover new perspectives. NO prior experience or art skills are required. Sign up
Let Me IntervYOU!
A special interactive event! Using a Letter Board, the hosts will randomly pick a letter and then guests will share a word starting with that letter, which may lead to stories of your loved one. Sign up
Coping with Loss During the Holidays
Join therapist Claire Bidwell Smith to gain valuable coping tools and share your loss with others who are also grieving during the holidays. Sign up here
Anticipatory Grief: Grieving a Loss Before it Happens
Anticipatory grief is a feeling of grief before an impending loss. At this event, connect with others who are experiencing anticipatory grief, learn ways to prevent caregiver burnout, and receive encouraging support as you walk through this journey with your loved one. Sign up
When Grief Comes to School
This evening will help educators and parents manage the ins-and-outs of education for a child who has suffered the death of a loved one. Sign up
Live Talk for 16-25 year olds: How to Navigate a Life with Grief
Online information session for grieving young people to learn about grief, how it impacts us and ways to cope. Sign up
Passed and Present: Remembering Loved Ones During the Holidays
Learn about opportunities to honor loved ones during the holiday season and talk about why taking steps to remember family and friends is so very healing after loss. Sign up
The Compassionate Friend’s Fall Virtual Bereavement Support Event
This online gathering, offered by The Compassionate Friends, will offer a range of workshops on grief, loss, coping, and healing and will focus on support for bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents, whether you are newly bereaved or a more seasoned griever. Sign up
Hope for the Holidays Virtual Gatherings
Hope for the Holidays is a free program for those looking for ways to cope with grief during the holiday season. Each session is hosted by a professional grief counselor who understands the complexity of grief and the effect it can have on us, particularly during the holidays. Sign uo
End Of Life Midwives In Conversation
Join End Of Life Midwives Birgitta and Cheserae for a conversation about your relationship with grief. Birgitta and Cheserae will help create space to ponder how you can live life to its fullest every day and approach dying and death with love, compassion, and non-judgment. Sign up
Navigating Holiday Stress
Join hospice and palliative medicine physician Dr. BJ Miller for an interactive discussion navigating stress during the holidays. Sign up
Passed and Present: Finding Others Who “Get It”
Explore strategies for building new friendships and why finding others who “get it” helps. The discussion will be especially helpful leading up to the holiday season. Sign up
A gathering for those who have lost a partner to suicide
In this session, you will find a safe place to meet other suicide loss survivors to share challenges and resources, feelings, and ideas. Sign up
Grief Support: Loss From Cancer
While each grief journey is going to be unique, connecting with others that lost someone they love to the same disease can provide a connection that you don't find in a general support group. This group offers the chance to connect with others and receive coping skills to help you along your grief journey. Sign up
Waves: A Grief and Remembrance Storytelling Event
Join Rachel Cargle and Death Doula Sula Johnson for a community grief storytelling event. This is a place for you to bring what you’re keeping inside. Feel the power of saying your loved one’s name. Tell a story to an anonymous group, allowing your memories to take on new life, or tell a story that relates to your grief journey. Sign up
The Awakening Workshop
Join death doula, Alua Arthur, for an evocative and immersive three hour workshop designed for you to contemplate your body's inevitable death. Sign up
Grief 101 for Adults Supporting Grieving Children & Young People
Run by youth bereavement charity, Winston's Wish, this event will help parents and carers understand how to support a child our young person through grief. Sign up
Crafting Through Grief and Loss
Join “By For Ewe: An Inclusive Fiber Community” for a Zoom gathering to discuss how crafting has impacted your journey through grief and loss. Sign up