Grief Support Groups
Special Events
Educational Signature Series
HeartLight Center offers quarterly presentations from grief care experts across the US.
Join us for our upcoming virtual, educational events with
Ted Bowman on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Narrative Power: Finding Words for Living, Dying, Death and Bereavement
A special presentation for Hospice Professionals, Clergy, Therapists/Counselors, Volunteers, Companions, Death Doulas, Death Care Professionals, including Funeral Directors, Leadership and Administrative Professionals, Law Enforcement, First Responders, and Victim’s Advocates.
When losses occur, words are sought…sometimes found…sometimes offered. Drawing on bibliotherapeutic and narrative therapy principles, perspectives and tools for narrative power will be presented, demonstrated and discussed. Narrative is not about having people tell their stories. Narrative is interested in power – who has the power to speak stories into existence. Voices of grievers and the bereft , thereby, are heard and validated.
Using metaphor and related prompts, participants will be invited to consider using stories as prompts for words that foster grieving and healing.
Grief Endings and New Beginnings: Attention to Each and Both
A special educational presentation for anyone who is grieving or supporting a griever.
Through our lives we meet many changes carrying with them an ending that always leads to creating a new beginning. When the loss of a loved one is one of those intersections that disrupts our lives and necessitates change, we may struggle with the new labels we are given such as widow, grieving grandparent, or survivor. We are challenged by uncertainty. Plans, assumptions, long-held hopes and dreams may be shattered. In this session, we will explore the resiliency we acquire that can bring us through our evolving lives. The more we are aware of our losses and our gains, the more prepared we can be for the uncertainty of the future and our story of who we are becoming because of our loss.
Facing the Mourning Facilitator Training
Our facilitator training will enable you to offer this program through your organization.
Please join us on Friday, March 21st at 11am (MST) for the next training on Zoom.
Learn through Participation
Monthly Grief Support Groups
We ask anyone who attends group be in a space where they are participating as a griever, rather than an educational opportunity. Our highest priority is the sanctity of groups. If you want to learn about grief support groups by observing and not participating, we invite you to attend trainings or to watch our Open Support Group videos as groups are not a learning or observational environment.
If you are curious about how a group runs, we invite you to watch one of our videos or to fill out this interest form so that we can support your learning in the most meaningful way, we’d love to connect with you.
Group Observation Request Form
Upcoming Workshops
We welcome you to join us for upcoming seminars and workshops that explore various topics on the grief journey.
Learn by experiencing a variety of tools and approaches for supporting bereaved individuals while experiencing them yourself as a co-griever.
The Body In Grief Mindfulness Workshop – Virtual
rief doesn’t require words. It’s the physical sensation interwoven with emotional states that inform us when our grief is present, severe, or subsiding. Yet we’re given few tools for understanding how grief actually feels in our body, and how we can bear those sensations on a daily or hourly basis.
This experiential workshop will show you how to gently hold space for uncomfortable physical states, how to prevent discomfort from leading to worst-case thinking, and how to regain a sense of safety in your skin. These mindfulness techniques are a wonderful complement to other support tools, such as talk therapy and movement therapy, for improving mind-body wellness during grief.
Meeting Date: Sat. Feb 22, 2025
start time: 9amPT/10amMST/11amCT/12pmET
Cost: $20
Open heART Studio – Denver
We invite you to share in a creative space to help explore and connect about grief through art. HeartLight Center will provide supplies that you can use to create either an instructed activity, or something of your own. You are welcome to bring any art supplies, images, relics or materials that you would like to work with. No past art experience required.
Featured Activity: Color Wheel of Feelings – a multi-media creation that explores color theory and the many emotional experiences of grief.
Date: Saturday, March 15 9am-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Cost: $40, includes supplies
Walking With Grief: Mindfulness Walk – Denver
Join us for a mindfulness walk that honors ourselves, our connection with nature and with our grief. A mindfulness walk is a type of meditative, contemplative, intentional walk that creates movement while focusing our body’s on physical sensations and what nature around us is doing and evoking within us. It can be a helpful way to copy with grief by helping to get out of our heads and back into our bodies, and in connection with the world of nature.
Date: Friday, March 21 10am-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Cost: $20, includes materials
The Anger of Grief: A Somatic Workshop – Denver
Anger is a “stage” of grief that doesn’t often get talked about, yet is an emotion everyone feels. There is a wide variety of ways that anger, irritability and frustration arise in grief. Join us in a space dedicated to discussing and processing anger and learn tools for safely experiencing and working through this complex emotion as normal part of the grief journey.
Please wear clothing that you have full range of motion in.
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver, CO 80014)
Cost: $30, includes materials. Registration is required.
Caring for Someone Who is Grieving: Intergenerational Grief and Loss – Hybrid
Join us in a discussion, either in-person at HeartLight or on Zoom, about caring for grievers and how grief and loss translate in healthy and unhealthy ways across multiple generations. In this hybrid workshop we will explore coping with loss personally while supporting others in their grief, self-awareness and communication skills, when relationships are complicated, and more.
Meeting Date: Sat. March 29, 2025
Start Time: 9amPT/10amMST/11amCT/12pmET
Cost: $15.
Practicum & Internship Opportunities
If your graduate-level academic program requires practicum or internship experience, we welcome you to reach out to discuss possible opportunities for site placement with HeartLight Center.
Connect with a Grief Networking Alliance
Join a local group of professionals from a variety of grief and loss organizations.
Grief Resources
Our professional support network can connect you to the resources that will meet your needs.
