Grief Literacy Training

Grief Literacy Training go beyond standard operating procedures to explore the broader emotional, cultural, and relational landscape of grief. Together, we build a shared vocabulary, increase emotional fluency, and create space to rethink how we respond to grief; personally, professionally, and collectively.

This work is about more than education. It's about reshaping how we see grief, how we talk about it, and how we hold space for it in the places we live and work.

These are not one-size-fits-all lectures, they are relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in real-world practice. They make space for reflection, questions, discomfort, and growth.

Topics Often Explored Include:

Expanding grief-related language and dismantling outdated myths
Understanding disenfranchised, ambiguous, and collective grief
Trauma, grief, and the nervous system: what your body remembers
How grief intersects with culture, identity, and power
Creating grief-informed policies, spaces, and leadership practices
Supporting others without rescuing or rushing their process
Grief in the workplace: showing up with humanity, not just productivity
How your own relationship to grief impacts how you support others

FEEDBACK & REFLEXIVE PRACTICE FROM GRIEF LITERACY TRAININGS

Addictions Counsellor R.

Really appreciate you providing this training for our organization. Many of our clients have experienced hard loss and the more we know about how to support in those experiences in a way that helps is going to be beneficial to their own recovery too. I also really appreciated your style of teaching and the humour you injected into this. It made the training so much more engaging.

Individual Counselling Therapist M.

I am so grateful for this training Suzz. I thought that I was pretty grief literate but now see I had so much to still learn and want to continue to. You are right, the curriculum in school for therapists is not deep enough to understand grief and loss. I loved learning about cultural implications of assumptions when it comes to grief and how our implicit bias can get in the way without us even knowing. You really got me thinking! I have been telling everyone about this training.

Trauma Counsellor S.

I wanted to share with you how impactful your grief training was for me. A big takeaway from a DEI perspective was to not assume that every person who is say… First Nations grieves the same way. As I expand my worldview to see the world from other people’s perspective there is still more growth I need to do than just taking the easy road and assuming that all Christian, or Muslim or Atheist people MUST hold the same view of death, suicide, grief, dying, MAID. The example you used of Indigenous peoples who can hold different perspective than what is traditionally taught was a really good growing point for me. Thank you for sharing your wisdom…it made a difference to my personal and professional growth.

End of Life Doula T.

Suzz, the work you do is so important and I am so glad that I was able to take this training with you. You left me with so many things to think about as I move forward in my own work as a Death Doula and showing up for families. I cannot thank you enough for this. Really super meaningful.