Working with Grief & After-Death Communication Oct 16, 2026

Are you looking to feel more confident supporting people through grief and loss?

Many grief trainings focus on understanding grief. This training goes a step further by helping you understand grief and teaching you how to actually work with it.

Combining current research, grief theory, and practical application, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the grieving process while learning practical tools, strategies, and scripts you can immediately begin using to support people navigating loss. You’ll also explore meaning-making, continuing bonds, and after-death communication (ADC) through a balanced, evidence-informed clinical lens.

Why Choose This Training?

Grief is a universal human experience, yet many professionals receive little formal education on how to effectively support those experiencing loss. This training bridges the gap between theory and practice, helping you understand not only how grief works, but what to say, what to do, and how to respond with confidence while honouring each person’s unique grief journey.

You’ll also explore after-death communication (ADC)—a commonly reported experience among bereaved individuals. Without adequate education, these experiences can be unintentionally dismissed, pathologized, or overlooked despite their potential to support meaning-making and healthy adaptation to loss. This training provides a balanced, evidence-informed approach to understanding ADC, helping you respond with curiosity, confidence, and appropriate professional support, regardless of your personal beliefs about the experience.

Who Can Attend?

This training is designed for professionals who support individuals experiencing grief and loss, including counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, physicians, nurses, hospice and palliative care professionals, spiritual care providers, volunteers, and clinical supervisors.

Whether you’re new to grief work or looking to strengthen your existing knowledge, you’ll leave with practical skills you can immediately apply in your role.

What You’ll Learn

• What grief is and why it hurts so much.

• Foundational grief theories and models.

• Attachment, loss of the assumptive world, continuing bonds, and meaning-making.

• How to recognize factors that may increase the risk of complicated grief using practical frameworks such as DISRUPTERS.

• Practical regulation strategies and clinical tools, including PRIME.

• Helpful scripts and practical approaches for supporting grief conversations.

• What productive grief work actually looks like, even when healing isn’t linear.

• What after-death communication (ADC) is, how commonly it occurs, and the current research surrounding these experiences.

• Common forms of ADC and how to differentiate them from psychosis, trauma responses, or other mental health concerns.

• Helpful responses, questions, and clinical considerations when someone shares an ADC experience.

• Common challenges professionals experience when supporting grief and how to remain grounded while doing this work.

Included in This Training

• Certificate of Completion

• Recording for future review

• Practical handouts, worksheets, and resources

This training is intended for educational purposes only. Completion of this training and receipt of a Certificate of Completion do not confer professional designation, licensure, certification, or competence to practise outside the participant’s existing scope of practice.