🌿 WHAT IS YOUR CALLING? 

Grief is unlike any other pain. 

Maybe you’ve wrestled with it yourself, or maybe you’ve sat with others as they struggled through it. Loss has a way of turning the world inside out and upside down. It shatters hearts, challenges our identities and brings the strongest among us to our knees.

And yet.

You’ve also experienced something unfathomable—how people somehow keep going. How, even when it feels impossible, we slowly find ways to carry the love forward even as we have been crushed by the weight of the loss. How, over time, memories shift from sharp edges to something softer, deeper and often unexpected.

Maybe you wish someone had walked with you through your darkest days. Or maybe you feel called to show up for others now—with more compassion, more confidence, and more tools.

We’re not meant to do this alone.

Real healing takes time, support, and sometimes, a little guidance. And that’s exactly what we’re here to do.

💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Grief is not just an emotional experience—it lives in the body, shapes our identity, and asks us to surrender to something beyond the self. The Embodied Grief Educator Certification is a transformative 12-week program that rewires how we understand, process, and support grief by integrating:

• GRIEF & NONDUALITY – Exploring grief through presence, interconnection, and deep awareness
• EMBODIED HEALING – Working with grief in the body through movement, breathwork, and somatic awareness
• SHADOW WORK – Exploring Jungian archetypes and drawing upon a variety of therapeutic tools from parts work to attachment theory
• ANCESTRAL HEALING – Honoring lineage grief and intergenerational healing
• CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES ON GRIEF – Death as transformation
• PRACTICAL GRIEF SUPPORT – Learning how to hold space and offer effective grief education

🔥 WHAT'S INCLUDED?

🌿 12 WEEKS OF LIVE TEACHINGS – Weekly 90-minute interactive sessions
🌿 PRE-RECORDED TRAINING LIBRARY – Deep-dive modules on grief, somatics, and nonduality
🌿 GUIDED SOMATIC PRACTICES – Movement, breathwork, and nervous system tools
🌿 ANCESTRAL & NONDUAL HEALING METHODS – Rituals, meditations, and shadow work
🌿 COMMUNITY CONNECTION – Private discussion group + peer mentorship
🌿 FINAL CERTIFICATION PROJECT – Design your own grief-support model

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to The Embodied Grief Educator Certification. This program is designed to guide you through a transformative journey of understanding grief through the lenses of nonduality, somatic healing, shadow work, and ancestral wisdom. Over the next 12 weeks, you will explore the multidimensional nature of grief, gain tools to support others, and integrate these teachings into your own life and practice.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• LENGTH: 12 Weeks
• FORMAT: Online with live sessions, recorded lessons, and experiential practices
• CORE THEMES: Nonduality, somatic grief work, shadow work, ancestral healing, space-holding
• FINAL CERTIFICATION: Completion of all modules, a final project, and participation in community learning

CORE PROGRAM THEMES

• GRIEF & NONDUALITY – Exploring grief through presence, interconnection, and deep awareness
• EMBODIED HEALING – Working with grief in the body through movement, breathwork, and somatic awareness
• SHADOW WORK– Exploring Jungian archetypes and drawing upon a variety of therapeutic tools from parts work to attachment theory
• ANCESTRAL HEALING – Honoring lineage grief and intergenerational healing
• PRACTICAL GRIEF SUPPORT – Learning how to hold space and offer effective grief education

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WEEK 1: THE MANY FACES OF GRIEF

• Understanding grief as a human experience
• Overview of grief theories: Kübler-Ross, Worden, Dual Process Model, Continuing Bonds
• Types of grief: anticipatory, disenfranchised, traumatic, collective, ambiguous, complicated
• Group discussion: personal definitions of grief
• Practice: journaling and grief inventory

WEEK 2: THE SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY OF GRIEF

• Grief’s impact on the nervous system and body
• Polyvagal Theory and the physiology of grief
• Somatic Practice: Grounding through breath and vagus nerve activation
• Nonduality: Exploring the self through a nondual lens
• Group share: somatic grief experiences

WEEK 3: HOLDING SPACE & THE DEEP ART OF LISTENING

• Active listening vs. problem-solving; holding space vs. fixing
• Creating safe, nonjudgmental spaces
• Key ingredient to grief work that is often missed, even in therapy
• Somatic Sensation Sequencing review
• Practice: beyond personal stories; listening from presence

WEEK 4: ATTACHMENT, LOSS & THE GRIEVING SELF

• Attachment theory, trauma, and grief responses
• Parts Work (Internal Family Systems): meeting the inner grieving self
• Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) and re-parenting through loss
• Practice: guided inner parts dialogue

WEEK 5: SHADOW GRIEF: GUILT, SHAME & UNSPOKEN LOSSES

• Working with shame-based grief
• Jungian shadow theory and the unconscious in grief
• Gestalt Therapy and the Empty Chair technique
• Creative practice: expressive writing from the shadow

WEEK 6: EMBODIED PRESENCE & NONDUALITY IN GRIEF

• Nonduality as a tool for being with grief
• Presence and acceptance in grief work
• Meditation: resting in awareness with grief
• Practice: non-duality & somatic grief exercise

WEEK 7: REWRITING THE GRIEF STORY

• Narrative Therapy and meaning-making after loss
• Constructing new identity through story
• Practice: rewriting a grief chapter
• Partner share: story witnessing

WEEK 8: ANCESTRAL HEALING AND GRIEF ACROSS GENERATIONS

• Introduction to ancestral grief and epigenetics
• Intergenerational trauma and cultural mourning
• Ritual: letter to an ancestor
• Group circle: honoring grief in the lineage

WEEK 9: GLOBAL GRIEF & CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES

• War, injustice, environmental mourning and community grief
• Indigenous, Eastern, and Western grief perspectives
• Death rituals and mourning customs globally
• Death as transformation and initiation
• Afterlife beliefs and secular & spiritual frameworks
• Group practice: shared grief altar or earth ritual

WEEK 10: INCLUSIVE GRIEF AWARENESS

• Race-Based Awareness in Grief
• LGBTQIA+ and chosen family grief
• Disability and neurodivergent grief experiences
• Socioeconomic impacts on grieving
• Group practice: story witnessing

WEEK 11: THE GRIEF EDUCATOR'S ROLE

• Ethics & responsibilities of grief work
• Boundaries and self-regulation
• Grief toolkit review
• Q & A

WEEK 12: INTEGRATION AND INITIATION

• Student-led grief ritual or presentation
• Certification ceremony and reflection
• Closing circle: what grief has taught us

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