The Center for Grief Education & Training provides grief-literate, trauma-informed professional education for understanding how loss affects a person, how grief becomes reactivated, how integration may be supported, and how losses are carried across the lifespan.
Our two-level professional training pathway introduces four connected ways of understanding grief—its impact, its activations, the processes that may support integration, and the broader landscape of loss across a person's life.
Explore how loss may affect identity, safety, roles, and relationships—and how changes across these areas may influence quality of life, connection, functioning, and felt capacity.
Understand how memories, reminders, milestones, bodily experiences, and changing circumstances can bring grief newly into the present.
Explore awareness, relational recognition, compassionate engagement, and ongoing integration and reorientation without treating grief as a fixed or linear sequence.
Consider how death, non-death, chronic, cumulative, traumatic, and stigmatized losses may interact across a person's life.
Level 1 introduces the complete framework through shared language, conceptual learning, guided reflection, and practical application for professionals whose work brings them into contact with grief and loss.
Register for Level 1Level 2 will build on the conceptual foundation established in Level 1, with a deeper focus on professional reflection, relational responses, case application, and grief-informed practice.
Join the Level 2 Interest ListContinuing education approval is pending. Credit information will be shared once approval has been formally confirmed.
Grief competency is not a specialty. It is an essential part of informed, compassionate practice.
Founded in 2026 by Andrea O'Reilly and Irish Dhindsa, the Center for Grief Education & Training grew from their shared work in grief services, clinical practice, supervision, community outreach, and professional development.
The Center provides education for professionals seeking more relational, context-sensitive ways of understanding grief beyond stages, timelines, and prescriptive models.
GRIEF-LITERATE
Approaches grief beyond universal stages, timelines, and assumptions about how loss should unfold.
TRAUMA-INFORMED
Attends to safety, context, relational experience, and the ways grief and trauma may intersect.
RESEARCH-INFORMED
Engages contemporary grief and trauma literature while clearly distinguishing established knowledge from the Center's developing framework.
PRACTICE-READY
Designed to support thoughtful reflection and meaningful application across professional settings.
Andrea and Irish bring complementary experience in grief-service leadership, clinical practice, supervision, community support, therapeutic arts, professional education, and lived experience.
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Grief-service leadership, clinical practice, supervision, and professional education.
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Community grief support, therapeutic arts, and professional development.
Explore why grief does not follow a fixed sequence—and how attending to identity, safety, relationships, roles, quality of life, and context can help professionals understand the unique impact of a loss.
Understand how memories, reminders, milestones, and changing circumstances can bring grief vividly into the present—and why renewed intensity does not automatically mean regression.
Explore how death, non-death, chronic, cumulative, and traumatic losses can interact across a person's life—and why the current loss may be only one part of what they are carrying.
Whether grief is central to your work or one part of it, Level 1 offers a thoughtful foundation for understanding how loss affects people across identities, relationships, roles, circumstances, and the lifespan.
Registration for the inaugural Level 1 cohort is now open.
