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The courses listed below are provided for your information. I am not affiliated with the courses, nor do I receive any financial benefit for promoting them - I simply want to let you know what is out there. Please look at the courses for information on prices and availability.

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            Bearing the Unbearable

Based on the bestselling book Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief.

In this course, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and Karla Helbert reveal how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Through this course you’ll learn what grief is and how you can identify its effects within yourself, as well as:
the Selah grief model; self-care practices and tools to help you in your grief journey; meditation practices and movement exercises for being with your grief; how to identify grief and its effects cognitively, socially, and somatically; how to find meaning through doing with your grief: transforming it into compassionate action in the world.


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   Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss

The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death is a professional organization dedicated to furthering the development and professional skill set of those called to hold space for mindful birthing, living, and dying.
Founded in 2015 by Amy Wright Glenn, the Institute was created to bring those drawn to the caring professions of birth and death work together with professionals dedicated to teaching mindfulness based living skills.
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings are specifically geared for birth/postpartum doulas, bereavement doulas, mental health professionals, midwives, religious/spiritual leaders, OBGYNs, prenatal yoga teachers, bereaved parent activists, and end-of-life care professionals. And all are welcome.

Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss is offered through this 15-hour prerecorded, self-paced training.


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Loss of a Baby in Multiple Pregnancy: Supporting Grieving Parents

Pregnancy loss and neonatal death are always devastating. When they occur in a multiple pregnancy, parents can be especially overwhelmed by the complex cluster of feelings that is evoked.

This two-week course by The Butterfly Project will provide in-depth guidance into what parents are going through, how to provide bereavement support, and how to celebrate each life in a multiple pregnancy.

This course is designed for health professionals working with expecting or recently-bereaved multiple pregnancy parents in any capacity. Doctors, midwives, nurses, counsellors, and psychologists will all find it valuable.


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The Creative Grief Studio

The Creative Grief Studio offers specialized grief certification and training for counselors, coaches, support group facilitators and other helping professionals through our 4-month, online interactive program.

If you wish to become certified as a creative grief specialist or are looking for fresh perspectives and new, highly creative ways to enhance your grief support practice, including how a social justice lens can enhance your practice and clients’ experiences, the Creative Grief Studio Practitioners Program is for you!

They also offer a short self-directed, on-demand version of the course.


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Megan Devine's Grief Care
Professional Certificate Program


Megan Devine offers a 6-month online course incorporating both RECORDED VIDEO TRAINING and LIVE Q&A components.

In the course, you will learn:
  • How to identify normal, healthy, typical grief
  • How to utilize non-pathologizing clinical interventions
  • Trauma-informed grief care approaches
  • How to work with the grief of racism, misogyny and hate
  • Living with your losses while holding space for others
  • How to improve support for clients after non-death losses
  • How to bring a humanized view of grief to your workplaces, communities, and beyond!
  • Tools for specific scenarios including grief following gun violence, natural disasters, baby loss, overdose, suicide, and more


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Coping with Loss

Dr Lucy Hone offers a website and courses for those looking to be an active participant in their grief - ..when Abi died, as a resilience researcher, I quickly became frustrated by the standard grief advice. I wanted to be an active participant in my grief process, doing everything I possibly could to survive, instead of a helpless passenger.

In the years since, I have become known globally for helping thousands of people find better ways to grieve. While there is no one 'right' way, there are skills you can learn to make the journey less agonising and destructive.

Click here to go to the course

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What's Your Grief is an excellent website offering great information about all aspects of grief. They also offer online learning. Click on the course for the link. Please note, the prices are in US dollars.
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Vicki Culling Associates
021-776436
[email protected]

© VCA 2021

  • home
  • about
  • vca online learning
    • 2025 student series
    • 2025 professional series
  • Sands 2025 National Conference
  • Informed Pregnancy
    • Sleep On Side
    • Baby's Movements
    • Trusting Your Intuition
    • Pregnancy Myths
    • Safer Baby Bundle (Australia)
  • resources for bereaved whānau
    • children's grief
    • Whetūrangitia
    • twin and multiple loss
    • memory making
    • balloon releases
  • baby loss research
  • other learning providers
  • holding on & letting go
    • resources - holding on & letting go
  • Whetūrangitia
  • rainbow communities and baby loss
  • the call for change
  • baby loss directory
  • baby loss resources
  • podcasts
  • conferences
  • articles (blog)
  • connect