PERMISSION TO GRIEVE
A 5-Week Apprenticeship in Reimagining Your Unique Relationship with Sorrow
This is a space to unlearn cultural myths, explore how grief is held in your body, be with grief as a teacher, and connect with others who speak the same language. All of you is welcome.
“It takes a whole village to grieve properly.”
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, to stay strong, to make sense of loss before our hearts have even had a chance to break open. Yet grief inevitably changes us — it touches our sense of self, our relationships, our spirituality, our psyche, our worldview.
Grief is a unique, intricate process. The loneliness that comes with it is palpable, real, and often misunderstood. But grief itself is not the problem. Grief is innate. It is human. It is an inevitable part of life. “Sorrow is a sustained note in the song of being alive.”
What grief needs is literacy, witnessing, and compassion. The real problem is a society that has forgotten how to hold grief — and how to hold you within it.
But we have not forgotten.
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 transformation can unfold there.
Over five weeks together, we’ll explore:
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Together, we’ll examine how narratives shape, and often constrain, the ways we’re “allowed”or “expected” to grieve as well as our collective relationship to loss. You’ll begin to identify the cultural conditioning that influences your own experience and consider what a more liberated, grief-literate culture could look like.
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xpand your vocabulary for grief so that you can recognize, name, and honor its many forms. We’ll explore grief literacy as both a personal and collective practice — learning to speak about grief in ways that foster understanding rather than isolation. Through dialogue and reflection, you’ll begin to name what has long gone unnamed, finding words for the unspoken dimensions of loss.
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Experience grief as a whole-istic process — emotional, physical, spiritual, psychological, and ancestral — influencing how we see ourselves, others, and the world around us. Rather than something to “move through,” this week reframes grief as a rhythm to move with, a force that inevitably shapeshifts us.
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Learn how grief imprints on the body, and explore somatic practices for support and release. This session brings awareness to how sorrow lives in the body and how it can shape our nervous systems, breath, and movement. You’ll learn gentle, grief-sensitive practices that support regulation, release, and connection to the body’s inherent wisdom.
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We’ll explore how ritual supports wholeness and connects our individual stories to something larger. Through guided practice, you’ll craft ways to honor grief in your daily life and community, allowing it to become not a wound to hide but a sacred companion to live with.
Participants receive a 10-hour Certificate of Completion upon finishing the journey
This Apprenticeship Offers
New Perspectives: Gain a deeper understanding of the landscape of grief, challenging societal norms and stigmas.
Compassionate Tools: Discover embodied practices and language to support yourself and others in grief.
An Inside-Out Approach: Learn how to meet others with the depth and authenticity that comes only from courageously navigating your own inner landscape.
Community Witnessing: Be held in a space where grief is honored and shared — where you’re supported and witnessed by the collective strength and empathy of the group.
A Transformed Relationship: Cultivate a way of being with grief that expands empathy, resilience, and love.
This work is meant to be an anchor & expander for what’s possible.
Sacred FeedbackWho This Is ForThis apprenticeship is for anyone called to reimagine their relationship with grief.
For anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider in their own grief — wondering if they were grieving the “wrong” way, or if their experience belonged at all.
For anyone seeking an environment to express and navigate their grief without wearing a mask. Together, in this shared sacred space, you'll find strength in vulnerability and the transformative power of being witnessed and supported in a compassionate community.
For caregivers and facilitators aiming to create more supportive, informed, and compassionate environments that honor the diverse experiences of grief
No academic background is required. What matters is not expertise, but a willingness to question what you’ve been told about “normal” grief, and to meet sorrow as a human companion rather than a problem to fix.
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Meet Your Guides
We are remade in times of grief, broken apart and reassembled. No one goes in search for loss; rather, it finds us and reminds us of the temporary gift we have been given, those few sweet breaths we call life.
the wild edge of sorrow