Welcome to Grief Cafés

Grief gatherings with heart.

What’s involved?

If you are longing to have meaningful conversations about all things grief and loss, join us for 75 minute sessions and together we’ll:

• Discover grief wisdoms

• Connect with life losses — the ones that never go away

• Honour our deceased loved ones

• Share healthy and healing coping strategies

• Explore what lives beyond grief

• Grow as a community

On the other side of grief is joy. Profound, heart expanding and purpose filled joy. When we give ourselves permission to meet our grief from a place of self-compassion, we open ourselves to what lives beyond grief.

What you’ll receive

Each Grief Café is unique because each person’s grief story is unique. We don’t promise to ‘fix your broken heart’ or ‘heal your pain’. It’s not how this grief work, works.

What we can promise is that you might:

• Feel seen, heard and accepted

• Experience relief

• Walk away feeling more informed about what is happening to you

• Learn to tap into the sorrows you carry in your griefcase

• Bear witness to other people’s suffering

• Feel inspired to learn more

Dates

Join a growing community of grief and loss advocates who are longing to bring more empathy and love into the world. Let’s re-imagine a new way of being with life losses.

• February 27 at 11:00 EST

• April 16 at 14:00 EST

• June 16 at 12:00 EST

• August 20 at 10:00 EST

• October 24 at 15:00 EST

• December 11 at 11:00 EST

  

What are Grief Cafés?

In 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, I was looking for a way to support all the grief I was witnessing in the world. Inspired by Death Cafés, I began to host Grief Cafés to raise money for SchoolBOX, a charity that first built schools in Nicaragua and now focuses on supporting Indigenous communities in Canada. Grief Cafés are designed for people who are longing to connect to their own grief and bear witness to others. As a Grief Doula and Certified Thanatologist, I companion people through their grief in a humanistic and heart-centered way.

Over the years I have hosted dozens of Grief Cafés, raised thousands of dollars for charities, and contributed to a humanistic way of supporting the bereaved and the broken-hearted.

When we humanize, not pathologize the losses we carry, we are able to access deeper compassion, joy, and love.

To be human, is to grieve.

Giving Back

As part of my commitment to support bereavement charities, proceeds from the Grief Café offer scholarships for students who want to participate in my training programs and raise money for The Wind Phone Project, Bereaved Families of Ottawa, Bridge C-14 and the Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association.