Workplace Grief & Loss Workshops
Practical, compassionate training for leaders and teams navigating grief, loss, transition, and change at work.
Navigate Workplace Loss With Skill And Care
Every workplace experiences loss, whether it is saying goodbye to beloved colleagues, navigating organizational change, or supporting team members through personal grief. The best workplaces have leaders who understand that supporting people through difficult times is central to good business and healthy culture.
These workshops build grief literacy, practical confidence, and meaningful ways to acknowledge transitions and endings in professional settings.
Workshop Overview
This interactive experience helps leaders recognize how grief shows up in teams, practice difficult conversations, and design meaningful responses to change, loss, and transition.
We work through real workplace scenarios and help organizations create ongoing practices that build supportive environments where teams can thrive through difficult seasons.
What You’ll Learn
Participants develop practical skills for navigating the loss that inevitably appears in workplace life: recognizing different types of grief, moving beyond awkward avoidance, and offering genuine support.
- Language for difficult conversations
- Frameworks for supporting grief and transition
- Ritual-informed practices for teams and organizations
Who It’s For
These workshops are designed for people leaders, HR professionals, managers, and teams who want to support people through life’s transitions with more confidence and care.
They are especially useful for organizations navigating current grief, preparing for change, or wanting to create a more supportive workplace culture before crisis arrives.
Workshop Options
Choose the format that best fits your team’s needs, timing, and depth of engagement.
90-Minute Lunch & Learn
An accessible introduction to workplace grief, language for difficult conversations, and first steps leaders can implement immediately. Starting at $1,500.
Half-Day Workshop
A practical session with real workplace scenarios, supportive responses, and concrete tools for navigating loss in your organization. Starting at $2,500.
Full-Day Deep Dive
A deeper experience for organizations committed to culture transformation around grief literacy, transition, and care. Starting at $4,500.
Corporate Retreats & Off-Sites
We can integrate grief literacy into an existing retreat or design a dedicated off-site experience that explores loss and transition from multiple angles. Longer formats allow for deeper reflection, team building, and comprehensive skill development away from daily pressures.
Facilitators
Megan Sheldon
Megan Sheldon (she/her) is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant, end-of-life doula, and co-founder of Be Ceremonial, the world's first guided ritual and ceremony platform. She is the author of Ritual Without Religion: A Humanist Guide to Creating Secular Ceremonies, and has spent years crafting ceremonies across the life cycle, with a focus on grief and the less visible moments of change and transition.
Christa Ovenell
Christa is a licensed funeral director & embalmer, end-of-life doula and founder of Death’s Apprentice Education & Planning, a company specializing in holistic advance care planning for individuals and groups. She’s also a WillowEOL educator.
Ready to build this capacity in your organization?
Let’s talk about how workplace grief and loss training can serve your team.
