LEARN ABOUT LIMINAL SPACE
Liminal Training
An 8-week journey …..
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
01 Foundations of grief support
The core concepts and skills for holding grief with others — creating brave spaces, deep listening, and the ethics of presence. Includes a values inventory and personal resource mapping so you understand your own relationship to grief before working with others.
02 The vast terrain of grief
An exploration of grief's many shapes — well beyond death of a loved one. Drawing on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief framework, you'll develop language and frameworks for loss that is personal, ancestral, collective, and planetary.
03 The art of holding space
What it does and doesn’t mean to be a container for someone else's grief — deepening your capacity to stay present without fixing, advising, or rescuing. You'll learn practical skills for caring for yourself and the people you're guiding at the same time.
04 Ritual and ceremony
How to design and hold meaningful grief rituals — from simple individual practices to group ceremonies. You'll develop your own relationship to mortality and loss through personal reflection exercises, grounding your capacity to guide others through the same.
05 Body-based grief support
How grief lives in the body — and how to work with it there. Trauma-informed somatic techniques, meditation, and movement practices that give grievers access to a kind of release that conversation alone can't reach.
WHAT YOU’LL PRACTICE
Somatic + mindfulness
Meditation and movement to process grief through the body.
Self-care + boundaries
Build a care plan and practice sustaining this work long-term.
Ritual + ceremony
Design meaningful rituals to mark transition and honor loss.
Peer connection
Share insight and reflection within a supportive cohort.
YOU’LL ALSO RECEIVE
Opportunities to offer 1:1 sessions, workshops or lead gatherings through The Grievery
A supportive network that continues during and after training
A certificate of completion as a Grievery Trained Grief Guide
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Learn it. Live it. Make it yours.
The capstone is where the training becomes real. Rather than finishing with an exam or a final essay, you leave with something you've actually built — a grief support offering that reflects your own gifts, your own voice, and everything you've integrated across the training weeks.
Option one
Grief support session
Design and facilitate a one-on-one or small group grief support experience.
Option two
Workshop
Create and lead a workshop, drawing on any of the frameworks used in training.
Option three
Grief ritual
Design and hold a meaningful grief ritual — personal, communal, or ceremonial.
HOW IT WORKS
Throughout the training, you’ll develop your project alongside the curriculum — concepts learned one week become material the next.
You receive ongoing feedback and mentorship from peers and from Rebecca and Luna throughout — optional 1:1 support is available for Core Plus.
In week 11, you present your project to the full cohort — and in week 12, we close together in ceremony, celebrating what each person has built.
PRICING & TRAINING OPTIONS
$995 · $845 (members*)
CORE
Full 8-week program, recordings, and peer practice.
$1,495 · $1,270 (members*)
CORE PLUS
Everything in Core, plus 4 mentorship sessions with Rebecca.
Start Date
September 27, 2027
Cadence
Every Sunday for 8 weeks
2:00—4:00pm Eastern U.S.A.
Format
Live online via Zoom
*Members receive 15% off all workshops and trainings.
Already a member? Your discount code is in your confirmation email — or reach us at community@thegrievery.com if you need it resent.
Not yet a member? Learn more about membership → or get in touch if you'd like to talk it through first.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Rebecca Churt
Founder, death and grief worker
Rebecca founded The Grievery to make space for grief as something communal, not solitary. Her approach is rooted in nearly a decade of formal training: certified death doula (Going With Grace), hospice residency at Lily House, and certifications in trauma-informed care, grief care coaching, and grief ritual work — alongside an MBA from MIT Sloan.
"Death and grief work are about cultivating our capacity to be with thresholds of change and loss."
Luna Liebling
Therapist, somatic practitioner, ritualist
Luna brings over a decade of experience supporting children and adults through grief, including years facilitating grief groups in Philadelphia public schools. They hold a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from The Embody Lab, with training in Internal Family Systems and ecotherapy.
"The more we can feel our grief, the more we are able to access our joy."
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Therapists, counselors, and social workers
Death doulas and end-of-life care practitioners
Coaches and holistic practitioners
Community leaders serving marginalized groups
Anyone with lived grief experience who wants to support others
If you're experiencing a very recent loss, consider whether this is the right time for this deeper work. Trust your intuition about what feels most supportive right now. If you need help deciding or have other questions, feel free to schedule a 15-min consult or contact us at community@thegrievery.com.
“This training aligned with and contributed to some 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.”
“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 Training Graduate
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions, answered plainly.
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Yes. The training has been offered previously and refined through direct feedback from graduates. As one person noted: "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."
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A natural, multifaceted response to loss — touching our emotional, physical, and spiritual lives. Not all grief involves death. It extends to transitions in relationships, identity, health, belonging, and our sense of the world. We treat grief as an ongoing relationship, not a problem to move through on a timeline.
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We see grief and spiritual care as the same practice approached from different angles. To grieve well is a spiritual act. To tend the soul is always, in some form, a practice of grief. We're a secular community — you don't need to hold any particular belief to belong here. What "sacred" or "reverence" means is yours to define, in your own language and experience.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. All sessions are recorded and available to registered participants.
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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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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.
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All sessions are held via Zoom. A link is sent closer to the training start date.
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