Focused grief intensives and workshops that make space to understand your loss, connect with what matters, and find your way forward.
Carry Them Forward programs bring together thoughtful guidance, meaningful reflection, practical tools, and the connection of a small group. Each experience makes room for grief to be personal, without comparing one person's loss to another or expecting everyone to grieve, heal, or move forward in the same way.
WEEK 1
Four-hour live virtual intensive with two ten-minute breaks
INCLUDED:
Electronic participant workbook and guided exercises
Your Story of Love and Loss
Making space for what happened, what the relationship meant, what has changed, and what may still be difficult to put into words.
Guilt & Permission to Live
Making room for guilt, joy, purpose, and continuing to live while still loving deeply.
The Five-Week Grieving Forward Intensive
The experience begins with a four-hour live virtual Intensive and continues with four weekly 90-minute Integration Circles. This five-week structure gives participants time to take in what they are learning, notice what surfaces between meetings, return for support and connection, and begin finding their own way of carrying forward.
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What Participants May Explore
What Makes the Program Different
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Support that continues: The four-hour Intensive is the beginning, not the end. Four weekly Integration Circles provide time to process what surfaces, reconnect, and begin bringing the work into everyday life.
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Loss-specific connection: Cohorts bring together people who share a similar type of loss, creating space for conversations that do not require you to explain why your grief is different.
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Intentionally small groups: Cohorts are kept small so there is room to be known, heard, and part of the conversation—not lost in a crowd.
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No grief hierarchy: Your loss does not have to be compared, justified, ranked, or measured against anyone else's to matter here.
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Professional knowledge meets lived experience: The program is grounded in grief-informed clinical practice and shaped by an understanding of loss that is both professional and deeply personal.
WEEKS 2 - 5
Five-weekly 90-minute live virtual sessions
INCLUDED:
Reflection, discussion, connection, practical tools, and development of a personal Carry Forward plan
Who Am I Now?
Exploring the ways loss can change your identity, roles, routines, relationships, and the future you once imagined.
Continuing Bonds
Personal ways to remember, honor, connect, and carry the relationship forward.
WEEKS 6+
Continued support through the Carry Then Forward Circle
INCLUDED:
Reflection, discussion, connection, practical tools, and development of a personal Carry Forward plan
Triggers & Hard Days
Understanding what can bring grief rushing back and finding ways to prepare for anniversaries, milestones, reminders, and unexpected waves.
The Path Ahead
A personal plan for support, connection, coping, and meaningful next steps.
Intensives & Workshop Options
Adult Child Loss Intensive
For parents navigating the death of an adult child.
The death of a child changes your sense of time, identity, family, and the future you imagined. This cohort gives bereaved parents space to speak honestly, honor their child, explore continuing bonds, and discover what it means to keep being their parent in a relationship that has changed.
Sibling Loss Intensive
For adults grieving a brother or sister.
Sibling grief is often overlooked, even when that relationship holds a lifetime of shared history. This cohort makes room for family roles, identity, complicated relationships, memories, and the unique experience of carrying the bond with a brother or sister forward.
Navigating Loss Intensive
For adults living with other significant losses.
This cohort supports adults living with a loss that has changed their life. Whether grieving a person, relationship, role, identity, future, or another meaningful loss, participants use the Grieving Forward framework to honor their story and carry forward what still matters.
Custom workshops for organizations
Carry Them Forward offers grief- and loss-informed workshops for workplaces, professional associations, nonprofits, faith communities, veteran and military-connected organizations, and helping professionals.
Workshops are tailored to the needs of each audience and may explore supporting people through grief and loss, responding with greater confidence and compassion, grief literacy, continuing bonds, caregiver grief, navigating life-changing losses, or applying the Grieving Forward Method in everyday and professional settings.
Program Fit Note
Grief is deeply personal, and no two people come into this program carrying the same story. We want to make sure the Grieving Forward Intensive feels like the right place for you and where you are in your grief.
After registration, each participant will receive a Loss Assessment. This gives us an opportunity to learn a little more about your loss, what you are carrying right now, what you hope to gain from the program, and whether this particular intensive is a good fit for your needs.
Grieving Forward is a supportive and educational experience that creates space for reflection, connection, and learning how to continue living while staying connected to the person you love. Some conversations and activities may bring up strong emotions, and participants are always encouraged to honor their own needs and boundaries throughout the experience.
This program is not therapy or a replacement for individualized mental health, medical, crisis, or emergency care. If it appears that you may need a different level or type of support right now, we will talk with you about that and encourage you to connect with the appropriate resources.
Our goal is to create a space where you feel supported, understood, and able to carry your person forward with you as you continue living.