PERMISSION TO GRIEVE

Reimagine your Relationship with Sorrow 

A 5-week apprenticeship in reimagining your relationship with sorrow. This is a space to unlearn cultural myths, discover how grief is held in the body, be with grief as a teacher, and connect with others who speak the same language.

Grief doesn’t need to be fixed.

It’s not a stage to “get through”

It doesn’t need to look a certain way.

We are told to move on, stay strong, or make sense of loss before our hearts have even had a chance to break open. Grief inevitably changes us — it touches our sense of self, our relationships, our spirituality, our psyche, our worldview.

Grief needs literacy.

It needs witnessing.

It needs compassion.

This is not a linear training with steps to mastery, because grief is not linear. Permission to Grieve is an invitation to listen, to sit beside, and to discover what healing and transformation can unfold there.

Over the course of five weeks, we’ll explore:

Week 1: Mapping the Cultural & Societal Dimensions of Grief

How cultural narratives shape, and often constrain, the ways we’re “allowed” to grieve.

Week 2: The Language of Grief

Expand your vocabulary for grief so that you can recognize, name, and honor its many forms.

Week 3: Reimagining Grief a Whole-Hearted Process

Experience grief as a mind-body-spirit journey, both personal and collective, with space for reflection, dialogue, and ritual.

Week 4: Grief & the Body

Learning how grief imprints on the body, and exploring somatic practices for support and release

Week 5: Honoring Grief as Ritual

Creating personal and collective rituals that transform your relationship to grief.

Participants receive a 10-hour Certificate of Completion upon finishing the program.

Our next cohort begins Fall 2025

Sign up below to be the first to know about it, as well as any other upcoming grief offerings.

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Sacred Feedback

  • This training was so thorough and heart opening. Katie and Brie are such thoughtful and skilled space holders, I truly felt supported and inspired throughout the whole course. Specialty courses like this are so few and far between, so if you're on the fence about joining, I'd highly recommend you sign up for it! The ripples from this weekend's course will stay with me for a long time.

  • Brie and Katie were such wonderful leaders during our weekend working on our grief. They were so understanding, patient and kind. They brought us all together as a group and gave us a lot of tools to use as we move forward.

  • These sessions have been transformative in my healing after I experienced a number of significant losses over a short period of time. I've noticed at the close of each of our circles that I feel a sense of peace, lightness, and relief. I've also created new friendships with women who I've had the pleasure of meeting within this grief circle community.

  • This was a beautiful experience. It's not often that you get to sit with others to learn and talk openly about grief, especially from a curious perspective. I'm so glad I did this training.

  • Katie & Brie have created a safe, warm, and welcoming atmosphere for us to recognize and hold space for all different types of loss. If you are interested in attending, listen to your gut and sign up! I'm always so grateful that I did.

  • I believe this offering is especially helpful for those who may be feeling alone in their grief, isolated, or misunderstood by their peers and/or family members.

  • There is so much healing to speaking your grief out loud with a group. This training is for anyone looking to learn more about grief, their own grief, and connect with others.

  • One of my biggest takeaways was around getting comfortable with the fact that everything is temporary, and easing my mind around life's changes.

  • The biggest thing I learned is that I am not alone in my grief. I think this training could be for everyone. This is not just about grieving a person. We all grieve something; lifestyle, relationship, job, etc.