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Learn to support grieving people before your first conversation

Foundations of Non-Clinical Grief Support

You want to do grief work well from the start. This course gives you the foundation: what grief is across every kind of loss, how to listen without fixing, how to structure a support relationship, and where your role ends and a clinician's begins. No prior grief training required.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain grief, mourning, and loss in plain language, including non-death losses like divorce, job loss, and illness.
  • Use listening and questioning skills that support someone without minimizing or advising.
  • Run a support relationship from the first conversation to a clear ending.
  • Recognize when a person needs more than non-clinical support and refer them without stigma.
  • Handle confidentiality, boundaries, and honest representation of what you're qualified to do.
Format
Self-paced online
Length
70 hours of instruction, 14 modules in six parts
Pace
Most people finish in 10 to 12 weeks at five to seven hours a week
Tuition
[$895]
Award
GriefField Certificate of Completion

You receive a certificate of completion. Check with your own licensing or credentialing organization if you need CE hours.

Developed and published by GriefField.

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Every title welcome

Grief care is a wide field and most of it works under different names. People doing the same work look for training, jobs, and colleagues in different places. GriefField is built for all of them.

Grief covers loss of every kind. Death, divorce, job loss, illness, estrangement, identity change, career transition. The work you do with any of it belongs here.

  • Grief coaches
  • Therapists and counselors
  • Chaplains and clergy
  • Death doulas
  • Bereavement coordinators
  • Hospice staff
  • Funeral professionals
  • Educators and speakers
  • Facilitators
  • Authors and researchers

Built for people starting out in grief work

Take this course if you

  • Are a new grief coach, or a coach adding grief support to your practice
  • Are a doula, chaplain, or peer support leader who sits with grieving people
  • Are changing careers into grief care and want a solid starting point
  • Want to know what is yours to do and what isn't before you work with anyone

Know before you enroll

  • This is non-clinical training. It teaches recognition and referral, not diagnosis or treatment.
  • It is not a certification. You receive a certificate of completion that documents the course and its assessments. Certification comes from credentialing organizations, not training providers.
  • It is professional development. If you need CE hours, check with your own board before you enroll.

Grief training, jobs, events, and resources in one place

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Grief training and courses

Courses and certificate programs in grief and loss. GriefField's own courses and training listed from other providers sit in the same list, in the same format.

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Work

Grief care jobs

Current job, contract, and volunteer listings. Bereavement coordinator, grief counselor, chaplain, hospice social worker, aftercare coordinator, and more. Each listing links to the employer's original posting.

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Gather

Grief support groups and events

Support groups, workshops, retreats, conferences, and webinars, dated, with the host named.

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Use

Grief resources and tools

Books, podcasts, apps, worksheets, and organizations for your own practice and for the people you serve.

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Every listing shows the provider or employer, format, location, cost, duration, and date so you can compare without opening ten tabs.

New training, jobs, and events every week

GriefField Weekly is one short email. New courses, open positions, and upcoming events, described plainly, one link per item.

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Reach the people who work in grief care

Trainers, employers, event hosts, support group leaders, nonprofits, and publishers can submit a training, a job, an event, or a resource for review. Submissions are checked against the original source before they go live.

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If you came here looking for support for yourself

GriefField is built for professionals, but Gather and Use are open to everyone. Gather lists support groups you can attend. Use lists books, podcasts, and organizations written for people who are grieving.

If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 in the United States and Canada, or contact your local emergency service. For urgent or ongoing mental health support, consider reaching out to a qualified local professional.

Questions people ask

What is GriefField?

GriefField is an education and opportunity platform for people who work with grief. It publishes its own training and lists jobs, events, and resources from across the grief care field.

Is there grief coach training for people without a clinical license?

Yes. Foundations of Non-Clinical Grief Support is built for grief coaches, doulas, chaplains, peer support leaders, and career changers. It teaches non-clinical grief support, including how to recognize when someone needs clinical care and how to refer them.

Does the course make me a certified grief coach?

No. You receive a GriefField Certificate of Completion, which documents that you finished the course and passed its assessments. Certification is granted by credentialing organizations, not by training providers. If you're pursuing a credential, check that organization's education requirements before you enroll.

Does the course count for continuing education?

The course is professional development. If you need CE hours for a license or credential, check with your own licensing or credentialing organization before you enroll. The same rule applies to every course listed on GriefField.

Does a listing on GriefField mean it is approved?

No. Listings are listed on GriefField. Each one shows the provider or employer, format, location, cost, duration, and date so you can read what a thing is and decide for yourself.

Can I submit a training, job, event, or resource?

Yes. Trainers, employers, event hosts, support group leaders, nonprofits, and publishers can submit a listing for review. Submissions are checked against the original source before they go live.

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