Award-Winning Grief Speaker · Mindfulness Teacher · Author
Grief Speaker for Keynotes, Workshops & Professional Training
Mindfulness for grief, loss, and the work of being human.
Bring your audience a thoughtful conversation about grief and loss that is meaningful in the room and practical enough to use after they leave it.
When the topic is grief, bereavement, or the harder parts of life, expertise alone is not enough. A grief speaker has to understand the subject, engage the audience, and know how to talk about difficult experiences without reducing them to platitudes or simple answers.
Heather Stang is an award-winning grief speaker, author, educator, and mindfulness teacher who presents keynotes, workshops, continuing education, and professional training for conferences, healthcare and hospice organizations, bereavement programs, professional associations, and other audiences navigating grief and loss.
Bring Heather your audience, event goals, and format. Together you will shape the keynote, workshop, or training that best fits the people you are bringing together.
Grief Speaker Credentials
Clinical Practice Award
Expertise in Grief & Loss
Mindfulness & Embodied Practice
on Grief, Loss & Mindfulness
Trusted by Professional Communities
Expert Grief Speaker Trusted by Bereavement, Hospice & Professional Organizations
Heather has brought grief education, mindfulness, keynote presentations, workshops, and professional training to organizations serving bereaved people, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and helping communities.
Grief, Mindfulness & Real-Life Application
Give People Something They Can Use When Life Gets Real
A strong keynote or professional presentation should do more than inspire. It should change what people notice, understand, and do after they leave the room.
Your audience may already know that mindfulness can help, or that grief and loss do not follow five tidy stages. The harder question is what to do with that knowledge when someone is hurting, work is overwhelming, or life changes in a way they cannot fix.
Heather connects grief theory, mindfulness, and practical experience to real life. Research becomes understandable. Mindfulness becomes something people can practice. Difficult conversations are approached without platitudes, forced positivity, or pressure to make painful experiences go away.
Understand What Is Happening
Clear language for grief, stress, emotion, and the human response to loss, change, and uncertainty.
Know What Helps
Practical mindfulness, meditation, reflection, and embodied practices people can use in everyday life.
Respond With More Skill
Less fixing and advice-giving. More awareness, compassion, choice, clarity, and presence.
Take Something With Them
Ideas and practices that continue working after the keynote, workshop, or training is over.
The goal is not simply to help people feel inspired for an hour. It is to give them a different way to navigate grief, loss, change, and whatever comes next.
Grief Keynotes · Mindfulness Talks · Professional Training
Grief, Mindfulness & Professional Speaking Topics
Heather offers keynote presentations, workshops, and professional training on grief and loss, mindfulness, grief literacy, and professional well-being. Choose the program that best fits your audience, or use it as a starting point for a presentation tailored to your conference, organization, or community.
Walking the Talk: Caring for Others, Caring for Ourselves
People who spend their days close to grief, illness, trauma, and loss need more than reminders to practice self-care. Heather explores how mindfulness helps us notice our own responses, stay present without absorbing everything around us, and care for ourselves while continuing to care deeply for others.
For healthcare, hospice, behavioral health, bereavement, caregiving, and other emotionally demanding professions.What Do I Do With This Grief?
Grief can leave people wondering what they are supposed to do with everything they are feeling. Heather offers a practical way to work with grief through mindfulness, reflection, journaling, and everyday practices that support the mind, body, and continuing relationship with the person who died.
For bereavement events, remembrance programs, grief organizations, hospice families, and communities living with loss.Grief 101: When Loss Is in the Room
Sooner or later, grief enters every workplace, practice, classroom, family, and community. This program helps people understand what grief can look like, what commonly gets misunderstood, and how to respond without rushing to fix, compare, minimize, or offer advice that misses the mark.
For organizations, workplaces, professional associations, healthcare teams, educators, attorneys, and anyone who needs to respond well when grief shows up.The Practice of Being Fully Alive
Mindfulness is not about escaping the difficult parts of life. It is a practice for being present for all of it. Heather explores how awareness, compassion, and embodied practice help us meet change, uncertainty, loss, joy, and the ordinary messiness of being human with greater openness and choice.
For mindfulness, wellness, leadership, healthcare, contemplative, and general conference audiences.Have a different theme in mind? Bring Heather your audience, event goals, and topic. She can adapt an existing keynote or workshop or shape a professional training around what your people need.
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What Organizers Say
Exceeding Expectations, On Stage and Behind the Scenes
Event organizers consistently point to the same things: thoughtful preparation, strong audience connection, and a program that delivers what they hoped for.
“Heather is a seasoned professional whose commitment and passion shines through her work and her presentations. Her half-day preconference seminar at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Management and Leadership Conference was well attended and participants rated the session highly.”
“Your willingness to engage our families on their terms was such a gift for our agency to learn from and most importantly for our donor families. Death and dying is not an easy subject to talk about, but you led the way and allowed for a new perspective on coping with their loss.”
“It was a delight to work with Heather. She was communicative throughout the planning process and event itself. Heather is genuinely present to others as she models the importance of walking the talk.”
Bring Heather your audience, goals, and event details. She will help you shape a program that works for the people you are bringing together.
Book a Discovery CallRepeat Grief Speaking Engagements
Organizations That Have Invited Heather Back
Repeat invitations are one of the clearest signs that a keynote, workshop, or professional training worked. Heather has returned to national conferences, bereavement organizations, hospice programs, retreats, and professional education events across multiple years.
Association for Death Education & Counseling
National conference and webinar presentations on grief, mindfulness, self-compassion, trauma, hospice care, professional practice, and death and non-death loss.
TAPS / Hospice Foundation of America
Grief and mindfulness programs including meditation, journaling, emotional regulation, professional education, and support for people living with loss.
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
National workshops on grief, mindfulness, meditation, journaling, self-compassion, and posttraumatic growth.
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
Conference and webinar presentations on bereavement, mindfulness, leadership, professional loss, and staff self-care.
LiveOnNY
Repeat meditation and grief programs for organ donor families in New York City and virtually.
Omega Institute
Multi-year Mindfulness & Grief retreat programs focused on grief, reflection, contemplative practice, sacred ceremony, and connection.
D.O. McComb & Sons / Dignity
Annual grief seminar programs for bereaved community audiences in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaking Across Formats
Heather has been invited back for keynote presentations, professional training, grief workshops, webinars, retreat programs, and continuing education.
When an organization asks a speaker back, that says something about what happened the first time.
Why Heather
Experienced Enough to Bring Depth. Human Enough to Make It Feel Easy.
Heather knows her material, but she never forgets there are real people sitting in front of her.
She brings more than two decades of mindfulness practice and deep expertise in grief and loss, but the experience never feels overly academic or distant.
Heather loves connecting with the people in the room. She is equally comfortable delivering a polished lecture-style keynote, leading an interactive practice, answering questions, signing books, or staying afterward to talk with participants.
She prepares carefully, communicates clearly, and works collaboratively with organizers so the program fits the audience rather than asking the audience to fit the program.
Wise & Well-Prepared
Research, contemporary grief theory, mindfulness, lived experience, and years of practice come together in language people can understand and use.
Warm & Easy to Work With
Clear communication, thoughtful preparation, and a collaborative planning process make the experience straightforward from the first conversation through the event.
Flexible in the Room
Heather can move from lecture to conversation, reflection, mindfulness, journaling, embodied practice, or Q&A depending on the audience and setting.
The result is a program with substance, warmth, and enough flexibility to meet the people who are actually in the room.
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Extend the Impact
Give People Something Useful to Take Home
A keynote may last an hour. What people learn from it does not have to end when they leave the room.
Heather’s books give participants a way to keep reflecting, practicing, and working with the ideas introduced during the event.
Books can be incorporated into conferences, trainings, bereavement events, retreats, and other programs, whether you want a copy for every participant, books available for purchase, or a signing as part of the event.
Ask about bulk books and book signings for your event.
Planning Your Event
Planning & Booking Heather for Your Event
From keynote format and audience needs to travel and continuing education, Heather works with event planners to make the process clear, collaborative, and easy to manage.
Can Heather tailor a keynote or training to our audience?
Yes. Heather starts with your audience, event goals, and the experience you want people to have. Signature programs can be adapted in emphasis, examples, length, and level of interaction, or used as the starting point for a custom keynote, workshop, or professional training.
Does Heather speak in person and virtually?
Yes. Heather offers in-person and virtual keynotes, workshops, grief and bereavement training, professional development, continuing education programs, and facilitated sessions.
Does Heather speak at conferences and professional events?
Yes. Heather speaks for conferences, professional associations, healthcare and hospice organizations, bereavement programs, retreats, staff trainings, continuing education events, and community audiences.
Does Heather speak internationally?
Yes. Heather speaks throughout the U.S. and internationally. For in-person events, she typically flies from Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, or Washington Dulles International Airport.
How is travel arranged?
Heather prefers to book her own airfare and travel arrangements and be reimbursed by the host organization. That means one less thing for your team to coordinate while still allowing travel to be planned around the event schedule.
Can a program include continuing education?
Yes. Heather can provide learning objectives and supporting program documentation for organizations seeking continuing education approval. CE approval is handled by the sponsoring organization or its accrediting provider.
Are Heather’s programs interactive?
Heather tailors the level of interaction to the setting. A program can be delivered as a focused lecture-style keynote or include mindfulness practice, meditation, reflection, journaling, embodied awareness, discussion, Q&A, or other experiential elements.
Can we request a topic that is not listed?
Yes. Heather’s speaking topics are starting points, not a fixed menu. If your event has a particular theme, audience, or challenge, bring it to the discovery call and she can shape the keynote, workshop, or training around it.
What happens on the discovery call?
You will talk through your audience, event format, goals, timing, and what you want people to take away. From there, Heather will help you identify the keynote, workshop, or professional training format that best fits your event.
Bring Heather to Your Event
Create a Program Your Audience Will Remember and Use
Tell Heather who you are bringing together, what they are facing, and what you want them to take away. She will help you shape a keynote or training that connects, inspires, and gives people something practical to carry forward.
Book a Discovery CallAvailable for keynotes, workshops, continuing education, staff training, retreats, and virtual programs in the U.S. and internationally.