Free Live Online Grief Workshop With Heather Stang
What do I do with this grief?
Grief can catch you off guard in the middle of an ordinary day, keep your mind awake at night, or leave you wondering what might actually help.
Spend an hour understanding more about what grief can do and practicing ways to respond when a hard moment arrives.
Live online · Free registration · No prior mindfulness experience needed
Free live online workshop
Leave with something useful
Understand more and know what to try next
When grief enters the day
Ordinary moments can become hard very quickly
Grief does not always announce itself before it arrives.
A photograph, a song, a date on the calendar, a question from someone else, or a quiet moment before sleep can bring the loss right back into the foreground.
Spend one hour understanding what grief can do
October 21, 2026 · 5:30 to 6:30 PM ET · Free and live online
A different way to understand grief
Your reaction makes more sense when you know what grief affects
Grief is not limited to sadness.
It can affect attention, memory, sleep, energy, appetite, relationships, your sense of time, your body, and the future you thought you were moving toward.
Understanding that gives you more context for what is happening and more choices about what to try next.
Mindfulness helps you notice what is happening before an automatic reaction takes over the whole moment.
During the workshop
Understand grief and practice what may help
Why grief can feel unpredictable
Learn how grief can affect thoughts, emotions, the body, sleep, relationships, and concentration.
What is happening in the moment
Learn a simple way to notice thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and reactions with more awareness.
Ways to respond to a hard moment
Try mindfulness and self-compassion practices you can return to when grief becomes more present.
What may be useful next
Leave with practical options rather than one prescribed way to handle grief.
Practical mindfulness
Practice before the next hard moment arrives
It is easier to remember a practice when you have already experienced it.
During the workshop, Heather will guide you through practices you can adapt for real life.
Recognize what is happening in your thoughts, emotions, and body.
Use breath, movement, or physical awareness when grief is showing up physically.
Notice self-criticism, pressure, or judgment and try another way of responding.
Decide which practice makes sense for the moment you are actually in.
Your workshop guide
Learn with Heather Stang
Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT, is a thanatologist, author, mindfulness teacher, and creator of the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System.
Her work brings contemporary grief theory together with mindfulness, meditation, self-compassion, journaling, continuing bonds, and embodied practices people can use in everyday life.
Who this workshop is for
Come if you want practical support with grief
This workshop may fit if
- Grief catches you off guard
- Your thoughts become harder to quiet at night
- You want to understand why grief affects more than emotions
- You want practical things to try during hard moments
- You are curious about mindfulness but do not know where to begin
- You already use mindfulness and want to apply it more directly to grief
No experience is required
You do not need a meditation practice or prior mindfulness training.
The workshop is educational and experiential. You can participate at your own level and adapt practices to what feels useful.
If you want ongoing support afterward
Keep learning and practicing in community
The workshop gives you an introduction. The Mindfulness & Grief School gives you somewhere to keep learning, practicing, and connecting over time.
Members join live classes, meditation and journaling practice, courses, guided resources, and a community of people who understand grief.
Free Live Grief Workshop
Understand more and leave with something to try
Spend an hour learning why grief can affect so much of daily life and practicing ways to respond when a hard moment arrives.
October 21, 2026 · 5:30 to 6:30 PM ET · Live online
A note about scope: This workshop provides grief education and mindfulness practice. It is not psychotherapy, medical treatment, diagnosis, or crisis care.