This workshop is for anyone ready to explore grief more deeply — whether you're carrying personal loss, the ache of unmet expectations, ancestral sorrow, or grief for the state of the world. If it has a name or doesn't yet, it's welcome here.

If your loss is very recent or feels overwhelming, you may want to consider beginning with one-on-one support instead — a more private space to simply arrive before joining a cohort. Trust what you know about yourself right now.

This isn't a certification or practitioner training — it's an immersive eight-week experience for anyone wanting to understand and move with grief more deeply. What you'll leave with:

• An expanded understanding of grief beyond personal loss — ancestral, collective, planetary.

• Connection and community in a small, sustained cohort of three to five people.

• Practical, somatic tools for navigating grief in daily life through a liberatory lens.

• Embodied grounding strategies and guidance for holding grief with compassion and presence.

If you're drawn to the Grief Guide Training but want a first step, Gates of Grief is a natural place to begin.

A bridge between the personal and collective, the ordinary and the sacred — helping us remember connection and carry what has been lived forward. Ritual doesn't explain grief. It gives it a shape outside your own body, so you are not the only container left holding it.

We bring grief into the body, not just the mind. Rather than fixing or containing what you feel, our practices help you stay present with grief as it moves — grounded, resourced, and in choice.

The Grievery is a secular community. We hold space for people to grieve outside formal devotional settings. Nothing here requires belief, practice, or any particular relationship to spirituality.

That’s okay! We encourage everyone to join the first session to connect with the group, receive a warm welcome, and get grounded in the group agreements and become familiar with the gates. All sessions will be recorded and available for playback if you miss a week. That said, the real magic happens when everyone is present, so we hope you can attend as many sessions as possible!

Yes. All sessions will be recorded and made available after each live session to all registered participants.

We encourage it, to help everyone feel part of a shared space — but it's always optional.

In addition to the 6 gates (one, each week) we start with a Group Foundation & Ritual Opening
Entering the threshold, creating intentions, and practices that will guide our journey together. And end with a Closing Gratitude Ritual as a collective ceremony to honor our time together, integrate insights, and close the circle with care.

They complement each other without overlapping — both are worth doing, and neither is a prerequisite for the other.

That said, if you're new to The Grievery or want to get a felt sense of our approach before committing to a 12-week training, Gates of Grief is a natural entry point. It's smaller, shorter, and more personal — a chance to experience the work from the inside before deciding whether you want to learn to hold it for others.

If you're ready to train as a grief guide and already feel confident in our approach, there's no need to do the workshop first. The training stands fully on its own.

When in doubt, start with Gates of Grief. You'll know from the inside whether the training is your next step.

No — though if you've read Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow, you'll find familiar ground here. The Gates of Grief framework draws on Weller's work, and Rebecca trained directly under him to teach it. But this isn't a reading group or a walk-through of the book. It's a live, embodied, relational experience — grief met in community, through somatic practice, ritual, and shared presence. The book can enrich the experience, but you don't need to have read it, and the workshop won't follow it page by page.