Free Live Event

HEARTBREAK, HEALING, AND FINDING YOUR WAY HOME

A conversation with David Kessler and Maria Shriver

 

Free Online Discussion

Maria Shriver & David Kessler

Join David Kessler and Maria Shriver for a heartfelt conversation on heartbreak, healing, authenticity, and resilience, exploring how loss shapes us, the role of creativity in healing, and the journey to finding peace and authenticity within ourselves.

Together they'll discuss:

  • Hidden Strength – Discovering a store of resilience even in the moments when we feel lost and finding a way forward after our darkest days.
  • Authentic Expression - Uncover the hidden power of your truth, creativity, and insight.
  • Your Inner Compass – Gentle guidance and practical tools to help you trust your own lived wisdom as you navigate life’s next chapter.
  • Creativity as a Healing Tool – Discover how storytelling, writing, and other creative expressions can help process grief.
  • Finding Home Within Yourself -  Explore how to develop a deeper sense of self to live with more peace and hope.

Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver is a mother and grandmother, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer. She is the author of seven New York Times bestselling books, the former First Lady of California, an NBC News Special Anchor, founder of Shriver Media, The Women's Alzheimer's Movement, co-founder of the brain health brand MOSH, and the publisher of The Open Field. When she's not thinking or writing, she can be found hanging with her kids and grandkids.    

I am Maria bookMaria Shriver's new book "I am Maria" is out on April 1st, 2025. 

David Kessler

David Kessler is a grief specialist, speaker, and 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. 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.

He now facilitates a new model of online grief groups that are attended by people worldwide and he leads one of the most respected online grief certificate programs. He is the founder of Grief.com which has over five million visits yearly from 167 countries.

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