Workshops & Specialty Programs
One-time or short-series programs designed to explore grief-related topics, including practical matters that follow a death and ways to cope.
Workshops offer educational and hands-on ways navigate everyday adjustments, share grief, and engage in gentle processing.
Cost and location vary per program.
Virtual Workshops
First Steps: A Comprehensive Guide to
Financial Matters After Death
Get help handling tasks and finances after a death. Shane Phillips, author of First Steps: A Comprehensive Guide To Financial Matters After A Death, joins us for presentations around practical matters after death. Topics include; identity theft protection for the deceased, document gathering, understanding probate and estates, obtaining Social Security benefits, notifications to employer banks and social media, and how to make life insurance claims.
Tools for Handling Personal Belongings After Loss
A Virtual Program for anyone asking: What do we do with the “stuff”?
A discussion about handling belongings after a loss that includes useful tools to help with sorting through belongings, determining what to keep and what to donate, and feelings around parting with certain pieces of our person’s physical life.
NEW DATE: Sat. June 13, 2026
Time: 9-11:00am PT/ 10-12:00pm MT/ 11-1:00pm CT/ 12-2pm ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: $20.
Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Virtual LIGHT Movement Educational Presentation
The Body in Grief: Why Traumatic Loss Requires More Than Just Talking
This 1.5 hour training presents a trauma- and grief-informed somatic framework grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and polyvagal theory. Participants will examine the neurobiology of loss, including limbic system activation, autonomic nervous system responses (sympathetic activation, dorsal vagal shutdown, and ventral vagal regulation), and shifts in the window of tolerance.
Date: June 2 2026
Time: 9am PT/ 10am MT/ 11am CT/ 12pm ET
Location: Virtual
Suggested Donation: $15
Colorado Workshops
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The Anger of Grief
A space dedicated to discussing and processing anger.
Participants will learn tools for safely experiencing, and working through, this complex emotion as a normal part of grieving.
Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver, CO 80014)
Cost: $30. Registration is required.
Please wear clothing that allows you to have a full range of motion.
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GNA Resource Fair
For Grief Support Organizations and Professionals Hosted by The Grief Networking Alliance
A Professionals Resource Fair connecting industry professionals, community partners, and service providers across healthcare, end-of-life, and grief care organizations to share information, network, and enhance local support systems.
Date: Friday, May 29, 2026
Time: 12pm-4pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E. Dartmouth Ave. Denver, 80014)
Registration required to host a table. Registration not required to attend.
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Open heART Studio
Share in a creative space to explore and connect about grief through art.
This creative and social workshop invites participants to explore grief through the use of various art activities.
No prior art experience required. Supplies provided.
Activity: Windchimes
Date: Saturday, June 6
Time: 9am-12:00pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E. Dartmouth Ave. Denver, 80014
Cost: $40
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Healing with Horses
A one-day workshop to let the healing power of horses help you as we slow down, reflect, and have some fun together. Come with an open mind and heart and discover what the horses have for you at this stage of your grief journey.
In partnership with Dancing Spirit Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching, LLC, and TRU Community Care.
Dates: Saturday. June 6, July 11, Aug 22, Sept 26
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Lyons, Colorado
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Exploring Grief in Music
Join us for an experiential workshop about the connections we make to, and through, music when we are grieving. In this supportive environment, participants will use music to process loss, express emotions and honor important people when words may feel insufficient.
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver, 80014)
Suggested donation: $15
Learning to Carry Loss: Understanding Your Unique Grief Educational Seminars
An educational seminar is designed to support you in better understanding your own experience of grief. There will be time for questions and participation is always optional.
Topics include:
Understanding grief and the many ways it can show up
Building a personal toolbox of skills to support you in your healing
Exploring ways to find meaning and purpose after loss
Strengthening resilience as you move forward at your own pace
Kansas City Workshops
More details coming soon.
New Mexico Workshops
More details coming soon.
Tennessee Workshops
Tennessee Forever in Our Hearts: A Mother’s Day Celebration
Families are invited to participate in a special remembrance activity by writing a note or simply their mother's name and hanging it on our beautiful balloon arch.
No prior art experience required. Supplies provided.
Date: Saturday, May 9th
Time: 10:00 AM ET
Location: Grandview Cemetery 2304 Tuckaleechee Pike, Maryville, TN 37803
Wisconsin Workshops
More details coming soon.
Not Seeing What You’re Looking For?
As we continue to grow our programming, we want to hear about what programs and support you are looking for. If you have a specific request, any questions, or would like more information, please contact us or send us an email at Info@HeartLightCenter.org.