Grief.com and David Kessler
Grief Educator Certification
Summer 2022
Help People in Grief Find Peace After Even the Most Devastating Losses
Grief Educator Certification is a comprehensive grief training program led by renowned Grief Expert, David Kessler to help you confidently guide others and heal your own heart.
There's a Reason You're Here
You know the heartbreak of loss. You've experienced or seen in your clients that grief and trauma can break our hearts, obscure hope, and wreak havoc on lives.
You know that there is no magical solution to just "get over" or "move on” from grief. And yet, you've also experienced that we're more resilient than we ever imagined. You've seen that - in time and with help - we grow around our painful wounds and we can experience the sweetness of peace, and remember with more love than pain.
Perhaps you wish there had been someone there to take your hand and guide you through the worst days. Or maybe something inside of you is whispering that you would like to help others find peace. Perhaps you would like to have even more tools and techniques to share with your clients or even those who come to you as a friend, seeking hope.
Together, we can make a powerful difference. For those in their darkest days, we can shine a light and point the way towards healing.
Confidently Lead the Way
Nourish Your Spirit While Helping Others Find peace
Change Lives
Understand and practice implementing effective techniques to help others find resilience they never knew they had after life’s most challenging events
A Proven Pathway
Learn life-changing strategies for compassionate listening and pragmatic, future-focused exercises to map a healing plan
Helping is Healing
Your experience matters. Your story has meaning and you can help others find healing and hope after even the most heartbreaking losses
A Proven Process that Changes Lives
In this training, you'll learn the roadmap to compassionately and effectively coach others in grief:
- Get an in-depth understanding of death, dying, trauma, and grief
- Learn the 6 needs of the grieving and how to help others remember with more love than pain
- Resources to combat the most common setbacks that follow a loss
- Learn how to build strong connections with your clients
- Powerful and practical interventions to offer hope to even the most challenging client
- The tools to create and lead grief groups and mentor clients in one-to-one relationships
- Learn the proven strategies to help with suicide, child loss, addiction, and challenging grief
- Includes group-management strategies and transformational exercises
- Self-care essentials to serve others without depleting yourself
When you have the right tools and the experience to confidently guide people in grief not only will you see their lives dramatically change, but when you’re living your purpose you will experience the fulfillment that comes from knowing that helping truly is healing.
"In grief, the first person you wish you could talk to is no longer alive. The second person to talk to is another who understands grief and wants to meet you right where you are."
- David Kessler
What You Can Expect in Grief Educator Certification Training
We've created this program to empower you to help people recover from the devastation of grief
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Weekly Live Teaching to understand the unpredictable path of grief and help others find their way to create a legacy of loving peace
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Private Training Website with all the resources you need to have the solid foundation to help people
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Weekly Zoom Labs so we can dive deeper into the weekly training, ask questions, and support each other
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Fast-Action Workbooks to help you internalize the teaching and make it more meaningful to you and those you serve
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Ongoing Support - Once you are certified, you will continue to learn from David as well as have opportunities to participate in a volunteer program to gain experience helping people with grief
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Grief.com Listing - Certified Grief Educators are eligible for an exclusive listing on Grief.com
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Certificate Pack - Amplify your impact with Grief Educator Logos and Badges, Personalized Certificate, and access to the Alumni Community
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3 BONUS Video Training Modules
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BONUS Live Guest Sessions
Help others move beyond the suffering of loss to create meaning
Now is the Time
Never has there been a moment when those who are in the depths of grief and trauma could use more support. As a Certified Grief Educator, you will have the exact roadmap to confidently guide people to create a full life that honors their loved ones. Let's start a movement of helping!
Authenticity Matters
We know that platitudes and greeting-card sayings fall flat when someone is in grief or trauma. To help others, we don't have to be perfect. We must come from a place of empathetic understanding. David will give you the exact tools to lead the way.
Experience Matters
Learn directly from David Kessler. David has published 6 books on death and grief and has worked with professionals for 4 decades to guide others to find peace after life’s most challenging tragedies. Learn real-world strategies that make all the difference.
Experiential Training
This evidence-based training is interactive and results-driven. Each week, we'll get together for a lab, discussion group, and break into small groups to really understand and implement the teaching. David Kessler will answer questions and we'll connect with each other.
Transforming Lives After Loss
Become a certified Grief Educator and get the leadership skills to confidently guide others to move beyond the suffering of loss and remember with more love than pain.
Grief Educator Certification Training begins on June 14th, 2022
The Pathway To Healing Grief
Each week, we'll cover an essential topic on the pathway to grief recovery
Week 1 - Foundations of Grief
Week 2 - How to Be with Others in Loss
Week 3 - The Death Shapes the Grief
Week 4 - Release Your Feelings
Week 5 - Release the Burden of Guilt
Week 6 - Healing the Wounds of Yesterday
Week 7 - Integration and Meaning
Week 8 - Specific Losses at The Beginning of Life
Week 9 - Specific Losses in the Midst of Life
Week 10 - Illnesses of our Mind: Suicide, Addiction, Mental Health
Week 11 - Why What We Believe Matters: Spirituality, Religion, Atheism, and Culture
Week 12 - How to Help in the World: Putting Everything in Practice
Every lesson is designed to encourage post-traumatic growth to move beyond the pain and create a legacy of love
Become a Certified Grief Educator
You'll get comprehensive, real-world training directly from the World's Leading Grief Expert, David Kessler.
Over the next 3 months, you'll learn outcome-driven tactics and compassionate tools to maximize outcomes for people who are struggling with grief and trauma.
Guest Speakers include:
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Frank Anderson, MD -Trauma Specialist, Author, Psychiatrist
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Nancy Levin - Coach and bestselling author of Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free
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Rachel Hanfling - Emmy-nominated former Oprah and Anderson Cooper producer - Why Your Story Matters
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Paul Denniston - Author of Healing through Yoga and creator of Grief Yoga
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Shari O’Loughlin - CEO of Compassionate Friends - Turning Pain into Purpose
Here's What Grief Educators are Saying about the training...
Grief Hurts
Loss is traumatic, complicated, confusing, and painful.
Counselors and therapists frequently tell me that they open their office door to see a patient broadsided by an expected loss. At the moment they experience the overwhelming stress and frustration that their education didn't prepare them for the depths of the excruciating pain.
There's a woeful lack of grief emphasis in today's professional and academic training.
So often, grievers get stuck in the rumination, guilt, and the "what-ifs".
As helping professionals, we expect ourselves to have the answers. We want to know how to compassionately guide someone out of the agonizing clench of grief. And yet, we see their pain consume them week after week, session after session.
As a Certified Grief Educator, you will know the best practices, most effective strategies, and the words that inspire hope and change. You will understand the 6 needs of the grieving and feel confident with a proven gentle but pragmatic approach to transform struggle into hope.
You'll Get Instant Access To These Bonus Video Teaching Modules
Empathy and Balance
Finding healthy boundaries and strategies to work with people in Grief without taking on their pain.
The Body Remembers
Understanding ways that the body manifests the pain of grief and helpful ways to get relief from the struggle.
Helping With Grief
Strategies you can use TODAY to understand the needs of the grieving and provide beneficial support.
Changing Lives Starts Here
Sometimes a little step can make all the difference...
Be a resource in your community to help others make space for their grief while creating a path forward that honors their loved one.
The 3-Month Certification Training starts on June 14th, 2022
Registration Closes on June 10th
Following the 3-month certification, you'll have ongoing opportunities to connect, learn from David as well as special guests as well as volunteer and get feedback
About David
David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even after life’s tragedies. He is the author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Life Lessons and On Grief and Grieving. He also co-wrote, You Can Heal Your Heart with Louise Hay. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.
David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey. For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. However, despite his vast knowledge of grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. It inspired him to write his latest and most personal book, Finding Meaning.
His article in the Harvard Business Review, titled, The Discomfort you are Feeling is Grief went viral and gave us a vocabulary to discuss our losses big and small. His talk with Brené Brown was the #1 podcast in the world.
He speaks frequently for small local cancer organizations, grief organizations as well as large organizations, such as General Mills, Verizon, Dow Jones, and The Wall Street Journal. He has a unique place in pop culture as one of his books was the premise for the season premiere of The Walking Dead and he was a question on Alex Trebek’s Jeopardy.
David is dedicated to educating people about grief and helping thousands across the globe via his online support groups.
Become a Certified Grief Educator
Work with David Kessler to get a solid foundation to confidently guide others through the pain of grief and trauma.
Grief Educator Certificate Program Begins June 14th, 2022
Hurry! Registration Closes on June 10th or When the Training is Full.
