CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT
Grief Educator Certificate Program
I’m honored to share that I’m now a Certified Grief Educator. This milestone marks the completion of a transformative 12-week journey and the beginning of a new chapter in my service to grief.🤲
This program has been incredibly well crafted. The quality of the teachings, the integrity of the approach, and the sense of community made it a truly transformative experience.🧿
I’m deeply grateful I followed my instinct and joined this course as soon as it opened. Now, with this foundation, I feel even more ready to hold space for grief with tenderness, curiosity, and respect.💗
Grief is not something to fix. It’s something to witness, to walk with, to honor.🕯
What is a Certified Grief Educator? Here’s how my teacher, David Kessler, defines it:
A Certified Grief Educator is committed to providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience, and insights into the often unacknowledged rocky terrain of grief. Certified Grief Educators completed a certificate program designed by world-renowned grief expert David Kessler. They bring his unique methodology, tools, and decades of experience to help people navigate the challenges of grief.🌾
This 12-weeks certificate program was designed by world-renowned grief expert David Kessler, bringing his unique methodology, tools, and decades of experience to help people navigate the challenges of grief.
It included weekly live teachings, Zoom labs, guest speakers, and practical exercices, each week covering 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: Death of a Child
• Week 9 – Specific Losses: Children in Grief, Murder, Alzheimer’s, Sudden Death
• 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: Leading Groups and Offering One-on-One Support
Every lesson is designed to encourage post-traumatic growth to move beyond the pain and create a legacy of love.