Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification
Learn to guide people through grief using mindfulness-based practices. Build practical skills for supporting individuals and groups through live online training, guided practice, and personal mentoring.
Spring 2027 live cohort
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Fridays, 12–2 PM ET · Live online · Recordings available
Limited to 30 students for personal feedback from Heather.
Scheduled break: No live class Friday, March 19, 2027.
- 8-Step System
- Guided practice
- Professional credential
Save $200 when you enroll by November 30
Enroll now & save $200Early enrollment ends November 30, 2026. Introduction training and bonuses are available immediately.
What you'll learn
Learn the 8-Step System
Study the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System, combining contemporary grief research, mindfulness, and somatic inquiry.
Practice with guidance
Build facilitation skills through live classes and eight partner practice exchanges, with personal feedback.
Prepare for certification
Graduates who meet the requirements earn the Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach credential and receive ready-to-use professional resources.
How Your Grief Coach Training Works
This 12-week live online certification pairs mindfulness-based grief education with hands-on practice and mentoring. You'll develop the skills to guide individuals and groups, with resources you can adapt to your professional setting.
Learn Live With Heather
Join 12 live online classes for instruction, discussion, and personal feedback. Cohorts are limited to 30 participants, with class recordings available when you need to revisit the material.
Practice With a Partner
Complete eight practice exchanges with another helping professional. Take turns guiding mindfulness and grief practices and build confidence through constructive feedback.
Apply the 8-Step System
Learn a flexible framework grounded in contemporary grief theory, mindfulness, and somatic practices. Adapt your approach to each person's needs and your professional scope.
Build Your Resource Library
Receive meditation scripts, session guides, journaling prompts, worksheets, and home practices for individual grief coaching and structured group programs.
Free Spring 2027 syllabus
See the Full Training Plan
Review the weekly topics, practice expectations, certification requirements, and included resources before you decide.
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See Inside the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Training
Get a feel for the learning experience before you enroll.
Two hours together should leave you with more than notes. That's why I combine grief education with guided mindfulness, reflection, discussion, and small-group exercises in each live class. You'll have space to ask questions, practice guiding the material, and learn from feedback as your skills grow.
Early enrollment ends November 30, 2026. Get immediate access to the introduction video and guided meditations, plus a copy of Heather's Living with Grief book.
Is This Grief Coach Certification Right for You?
The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification is for helping professionals and those preparing to offer grief coaching. Learn a structured, mindfulness-based approach to supporting people through bereavement and other significant losses, whether you're building on your current work or developing a new service.
Bring your experience. Build grief-specific skills.
You may already support grieving people through counseling, hospice, spiritual care, coaching, education, or wellness work. Or you may be preparing to establish a grief coaching practice or support group.
- Learn a clear framework Explore Heather's 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System, informed by contemporary grief theory, mindfulness, compassionate listening, and somatic inquiry.
- Support individuals and groups Develop practical ways to guide grief-focused practices in one-on-one sessions and structured group programs.
- Work within your professional scope Adapt the approach to your qualifications, setting, and each person's needs and choices.
Participants bring different professional and educational backgrounds. A specific degree is not required for every participant.
Learn alongside people from the helping professions
People who take this training work in fields such as:
- Grief counselors
- Therapists
- Social workers
- Hospice professionals
- Bereavement professionals
- Death doulas
- Chaplains
- Spiritual care providers
- Yoga therapists
- Mindfulness teachers
- Coaches
- Wellness practitioners
- Group facilitators
- Community educators
Explore the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System
Heather Stang's approach combines grief education, meditation, self-compassion, body awareness, journaling, and continuing bonds. These eight steps are flexible areas of practice, not stages of grief or a prescribed timeline. You'll learn to adapt each one to the person, the setting, and your professional scope.
Select any step to explore the practices you'll learn to guide.
Step 1 of 8 Conscious Relaxation Finding steadiness when grief feels overwhelming
Learn attention and relaxation practices that can help people work with tension, racing thoughts, and moments of overwhelm.
Step 2 of 8 Mindful Awareness Noticing thoughts, emotions, and sensations
Help people observe what is happening in their minds, bodies, and emotional lives with curiosity, without pressure to fix or change it.
Step 3 of 8 Compassion for All Responding to pain with care
Explore compassionate responses to guilt, shame, self-criticism, and isolation, while making space for support and connection.
Step 4 of 8 Skillful Courage Knowing when to engage and when to pause
Practice helping people approach difficult emotions at a manageable pace, including recognizing when it is time to step back.
Step 5 of 8 Getting Unstuck Exploring patterns and new possibilities
Use journaling, movement, metaphor, and reflection to explore repetitive thoughts, avoidance, and patterns that may keep someone feeling stuck.
Step 6 of 8 Continuing Bonds Honoring relationships that continue
Guide practices involving memory, ritual, traditions, and values that help people maintain meaningful connections with someone who has died.
Step 7 of 8 Allowing Transformation Making room for identity and change
Explore changes in identity, relationships, and meaning after loss, without suggesting that grief must lead to growth.
Step 8 of 8 Perpetual Mindfulness Finding practices to return to over time
Help people identify mindfulness practices, relationships, and resources they can draw on as grief and their needs change.
Ready to learn to guide these practices?
Build the skills to share this approach through live training, guided practice, and feedback from Heather Stang.
Early enrollment ends November 30, 2026.
What Graduates Say About Their Grief Coach Certification
Hear from graduates of Heather Stang's Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification about what the training has meant for their work with grieving people.
This program brought all my training and passion together in a beautiful way.
It changed how I think about holding space, less fixing, more allowing, and trusting the process.
This will enable me to begin a Mindfulness and Grief program at my hospice.
Explore more first-hand experiences from certified graduates.
Your Path to Grief Coach Certification
The 12-week live online training follows a practical rhythm: learn the material, practice the skills, and build confidence through feedback and mentoring with Heather Stang.
You'll study grief theory and the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System while developing skills for leading mindfulness-based practices with individuals and groups.
Includes your two-hour live class or replay, short weekly lessons, personal practice, and partner exchanges.
Five parts of your learning experience
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Short Weekly Lessons
Watch approximately 30 minutes of prerecorded lessons each week, then complete a short quiz to reinforce the material before class.
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Live Classes and Mentoring
Join Heather for two hours of grief education, guided practice, discussion, questions, and small-group exercises. Recordings are available if you can't attend live.
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Eight Partner Practice Exchanges
Over eight weeks, take turns guiding and experiencing mindfulness and grief practices with a fellow student. Exchange feedback to strengthen your facilitation skills.
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Personal Mindfulness Practice
Experience meditation, journaling, reflection, and body-awareness practices for yourself before guiding others. Develop ways to stay grounded in emotionally demanding work.
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Certification Exam
After training, complete a 50-question multiple-choice exam. You'll have three months after the final live class to study and pass the exam as part of earning your Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach credential.
Early Enrollment Bonuses
Save $200 and Start Learning Now
Enroll in the Spring 2027 Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification and begin exploring the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System before the first live class.
- Immediate access to the introduction training videos
- Immediate access to the guided meditation library
- A copy of Heather's Living with Grief book
Early enrollment ends November 30, 2026.
Put Your Grief Coach Training Into Practice
The 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System gives you a flexible framework for supporting people through loss. You can bring it into work you're already doing or use it to develop new grief support offerings.
From individual sessions to groups and retreats, you'll learn to adapt the practices and resources to your experience, setting, and professional scope.
Individual Grief Support Sessions
Use guided meditation, mindful inquiry, reflection prompts, and worksheets to support people navigating bereavement and other significant losses, whether in grief coaching or your existing professional practice.
Eight-Week Mindfulness & Grief Groups
Facilitate a structured support group with session guides, meditation scripts, journaling prompts, discussion questions, worksheets, and home practices organized around the eight steps.
Workshops & Classes
Build focused sessions around topics such as conscious relaxation, self-compassion, difficult emotions, and continuing bonds, using the practices that best fit your audience.
Retreats & Community Events
Introduce mindfulness-based grief practices in hospice and bereavement programs, wellness retreats, professional gatherings, and community events, with activities suited to each setting.
Living with Grief Book Study Groups
Bring people together around Heather Stang's book for shared reading, discussion, meditation, journaling, and reflection connected to the eight steps.
Your Teacher & Mentor
Learn Directly From Heather Stang
Learn the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System from its creator, with personal teaching and mentoring throughout your certification.
I’m Heather Stang, a thanatologist with a master’s degree in Thanatology, an author, and the founder of the Mindfulness & Grief Institute. For more than 20 years, I’ve worked in grief education, mindfulness, and professional training, helping people navigate death, non-death loss, and major life transitions.
I developed the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System to bring contemporary grief theory together with meditation, somatic inquiry, journaling, and compassionate awareness. The approach is practical, flexible, and grounded in a principle that guides all my work: there is no single right way to grieve.
I teach and mentor every certification cohort personally. As you move through the program together, you’ll experience the practices yourself, guide them in partner and group settings, and receive feedback to help you adapt the work to your professional setting and scope.
More about Heather’s background and teaching experience ↗
Early enrollment ends November 30, 2026. Your introductory training and early bonuses are available immediately.
The Foundations Behind the 8-Step System
The Mindfulness & Grief System brings together contemporary grief research, mindfulness, and body-awareness practices. Each offers a different way to understand loss and support people with care.
Grief Research
Worden: Tasks of Mourning
Grief involves adapting to loss, working with its pain, and finding ways to carry a continuing connection forward.
Neimeyer: Meaning Reconstruction
Loss can reshape identity and meaning. Reflection and mindful inquiry make space to explore those changes.
Stroebe & Schut: Dual Process Model
People move between attending to grief and navigating everyday life, rest, and restoration.
Mindfulness & Body Awareness
Buddhist Psychology & Mindfulness
Awareness, compassion, and impermanence inform practices that help people relate to difficult experiences with greater care.
Yoga Traditions & Somatic Inquiry
Breath, movement, and body awareness offer ways to notice how grief is experienced physically, drawing in part on Heather's Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy training.
In the certification, you'll learn to apply these foundations through secular, trauma-sensitive practices that respect individual choice and your professional scope.
View selected research references
- Worden, J. W. (2018). Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, 5th ed. Springer Publishing Company.
- Neimeyer, R. A. (Ed.). (2001). Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss. American Psychological Association.
- Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (1999). The dual process model of coping with bereavement: Rationale and description. Death Studies, 23(3), 197–224.
Keep Growing After Certification
Your training resources stay with you as your work evolves. And if you'd like ongoing mentoring and connection, there's an optional graduate community you can join.
Resources for the Long Term
Lifetime Access to Training Materials
Return to class recordings, meditation scripts, session guides, worksheets, and updated training resources as you build your grief coaching sessions and group programs.
Ethical Marketing Education
Learn to communicate what you offer and introduce your services with care, clarity, and respect for grieving people and your professional scope.
Mindfulness & Grief Coaches Circle
Monthly Masterminds
Meet with Heather and fellow certified coaches to discuss your work, share ideas, and continue developing your facilitation skills.
Certified Coach Directory Listing
Create a listing so people looking for trained grief support can learn about your background, services, and how to contact you.
Mindfulness & Grief School Access
Continue your personal practice with meditation, journaling, courses, and live support through the Mindfulness & Grief School.
Separate membership: Coaches Circle is not included in certification tuition. Graduates may join after completing the certification requirements.
Your Professional Credential
Become a Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach
Complete professional training in Heather Stang's 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System and earn a credential that reflects your ability to guide mindfulness-based grief support within your professional scope.
What earning your certification involves
Complete the training and eight partner practice exchanges, then pass a 50-question multiple-choice exam. You'll have three months after the final live class to pass the exam.
This is a professional, non-clinical certification in Heather Stang's methodology. It does not grant a therapy or counseling license, university degree, or board certification.
Early enrollment: $1,295 through November 30, 2026. Regular tuition: $1,495.
February 5–April 30, 2027 · Fridays, 12–2 PM ET · No live class March 19
12 live online classes · Limited to 30 students
Recordings are posted within 24 hours. Live attendance is encouraged, but not required.
Questions About Becoming a Grief Coach
Answers about grief coaching, professional scope, practical training, certification requirements, and the February 2027 cohort.
What Should You Know About Grief Coaching, Ethics & Professional Scope?
Understand what grief coaches do, how coaching differs from licensed therapy, and why clear boundaries and referral relationships matter. These questions also explain what this professional certification does and does not authorize.
What is a grief coach?
A grief coach offers practical, non-clinical support to people living with loss. Grief coaching may include education, mindfulness, meditation, journaling, reflection, movement, and practical ways to respond to the changes grief brings into everyday life.
A grief coach does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions unless they hold separate professional credentials that authorize that work.
What is the difference between a grief coach and a grief counselor or therapist?
A grief coach provides non-clinical grief education, practical support, mindfulness, reflection, and coping tools. A licensed counselor or therapist may assess, diagnose, and treat mental health conditions within the scope of their license.
| Grief coach | Licensed counselor or therapist |
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| Provides coaching, education, reflection, and practical grief support | May provide psychotherapy and mental health treatment |
| Does not diagnose mental health disorders unless separately licensed to do so | May assess and diagnose within professional scope |
| May use mindfulness, journaling, body awareness, and grief-support practices | May use clinical assessment and therapeutic interventions |
| Refers when a client’s needs exceed the coach’s scope | May treat more complex mental health concerns within the clinician’s competence and license |
Licensed therapists may incorporate the Mindfulness & Grief System into clinical work when appropriate. Non-clinical coaches use it within their own scope and maintain referral relationships for needs that require clinical care.
Do you need a license or certification to be a grief coach?
Grief coaching does not have one universal professional license in the United States. Whether a license or other credential is required depends on your location, the services you offer, and applicable laws. You do not need to be a licensed therapist to enroll in this certification, and the certification itself does not authorize psychotherapy, diagnosis, or treatment.
Throughout the training, I provide ethical guidelines for defining your professional scope, maintaining boundaries, recognizing when a client needs support beyond what you provide, and knowing when to refer. We also discuss how to build a referral network of licensed mental health professionals and other local resources so you can connect clients with appropriate care.
Can I become a grief coach without formal education or a degree?
A specific university degree is not required for every participant. The training is designed for people who already support others or bring relevant professional, educational, or volunteer experience.
The certification does not replace any degree, license, registration, supervision, or other credential required for work that is regulated where you practice.
Will this certification make me a therapist or counselor?
No. The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification is a professional, non-clinical certification in Heather Stang’s methodology. It does not grant a psychotherapy or counseling license, university degree, board certification, or authority to diagnose or treat mental health conditions.
What can I call myself after I complete the certification?
After completing the certification requirements, you may use the title Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach.
Depending on the work you offer, you may also describe yourself as a Mindfulness & Grief teacher, facilitator, educator, or group facilitator when those titles accurately reflect your role.
The certification does not grant professional titles that require separate licensure, such as therapist, counselor, psychologist, or social worker.
Does the certification teach ethics and scope of practice?
Yes. Ethical practice is woven throughout the certification. You’ll learn to define your role, communicate what you provide, protect client privacy, maintain boundaries, and recognize concerns that require evaluation or treatment outside your scope.
We also cover how to develop a practical referral network that may include licensed mental health clinicians, hospice and bereavement services, and community resources, as well as when and how to make a referral thoughtfully. Your scope still depends on your qualifications, location, and applicable laws.
Will I learn when to refer someone for additional grief or mental health support?
Yes. You’ll learn to recognize situations that may call for additional help, including significant mental health symptoms, prolonged grief concerns, safety issues, or needs outside the services you are qualified to provide. A grief coach does not diagnose these conditions but should recognize when assessment by an appropriately licensed professional is warranted.
We discuss how to build relationships with referral partners before you need them and how to offer a referral respectfully, with attention to the client’s choice, privacy, and existing supports.
Can this certification be used by licensed therapists and counselors?
Yes. Licensed clinicians can use the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System as an additional framework within their existing professional practice, provided its use is consistent with their competence, scope, ethical requirements, and local regulations.
Is grief coach certification legitimate and accredited?
The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification is a professional credential awarded after completing training and assessment in Heather Stang’s 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System. It is not a university-accredited degree, state therapy license, board certification, or ICF-accredited coach training program.
The program includes live instruction, supervised peer practice and feedback, professional ethics, ready-to-use resources, and a certification examination. Evaluate any certification by its curriculum, instructor qualifications, practice opportunities, assessment, and clearly stated scope.
Is this a grief recovery certification?
This is professional grief-support training rather than a personal grief recovery program. The focus is learning a flexible, mindfulness-based framework for supporting people living with loss.
Personal reflection is part of the learning experience because students practice the methods themselves before guiding others.
The Mindfulness & Grief System
Explore the eight-step framework, its trauma-sensitive approach, and how mindfulness, reflection, and body awareness can be adapted for different experiences of loss.
What is the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System?
The 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System is Heather Stang’s flexible framework for grief support. It combines grief education with mindfulness, meditation, self-compassion, journaling, movement, reflection, continuing bonds, and practices for adapting to change.
The eight steps provide structure while allowing the practitioner to respond to the person and situation in front of them. They are not stages of grief and are not meant to prescribe a timeline or correct way to grieve.
Is the Mindfulness & Grief System trauma-sensitive?
Yes. The approach emphasizes choice, pacing, autonomy, awareness of the body, and adapting practices to the person rather than requiring everyone to participate in the same way.
Participants are encouraged to notice their own limits and choose whether to continue, modify, pause, or stop a practice.
Does the program teach stages of grief?
No. The Mindfulness & Grief System does not organize grief into universal stages or require people to move through grief in a prescribed sequence.
The eight steps are flexible areas of practice that can be revisited according to what is happening in a person’s life and grief.
What kinds of loss can I use the framework with?
The framework can be adapted for bereavement and many forms of non-death loss, including divorce, estrangement, illness, caregiving changes, relationship changes, identity changes, work and career loss, relocation, and other major life transitions.
Practitioners choose language, examples, and practices that fit the person, type of loss, setting, and professional scope.
Do I need previous experience with meditation or journaling?
No advanced meditation or journaling experience is required. You will experience the practices personally and receive guidance, scripts, and resources for facilitating them.
Experienced mindfulness practitioners can also use the training to deepen the grief-specific and trauma-sensitive application of practices they already know.
How Can You Use Grief Coach Certification in Your Work?
See how graduates can use the training in individual sessions, eight-week groups, workshops, retreats, and book discussions, along with the resources and professional considerations involved.
Can I use the Mindfulness & Grief System with individual clients?
Yes. The eight steps can provide structure for individual grief coaching and can also be incorporated into an existing professional practice when appropriate to your scope.
You receive session guides, meditation scripts, journaling prompts, worksheets, and home practices that can support individual work.
Can I lead a grief support group with the certification?
Yes. The certification includes materials for leading a complete eight-week Mindfulness & Grief class, including session structure, guided practices, reflection, journaling, worksheets, and home practices.
Can I offer grief workshops or retreats?
Yes. You can build standalone workshops around individual steps or adapt appropriate practices for retreats, professional programs, wellness gatherings, community events, and other grief-support settings.
Can I use Living with Grief for a book study group?
Yes. Living with Grief follows the eight steps and can serve as shared reading for a book study group. You can guide complementary discussion, meditation, journaling, and reflection around the themes in the book.
Participants should use their own copies of the book.
Can I use the certification scripts and worksheets with my clients?
Yes. The program materials are designed for use with your own clients and groups within your professional scope and with appropriate attribution.
Redistribution, resale, republishing, or using the proprietary materials to train other practitioners requires separate permission.
Can this training help me create a grief coaching business?
It can give you a methodology, client materials, facilitation experience, and several ways to structure grief-support services, including individual sessions, groups, workshops, retreats, and book study groups.
Building a business also involves decisions about your professional scope, legal requirements, marketing, pricing, insurance, and the regulations that apply where you live and work.
What are the benefits of becoming a certified grief coach?
Certification can strengthen your practical grief-support skills, give you a recognizable methodology to describe your training, and help you develop services with greater structure and confidence. It does not guarantee employment or client referrals.
Graduates receive the Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach credential after meeting the requirements, along with session guides, guided meditation scripts, client worksheets, and materials for individual sessions, eight-week groups, workshops, and retreats.
How much do grief coaches make?
Grief coaching income varies depending on your experience, services, location, and whether you work independently or within an organization. Some professionals incorporate grief coaching into an existing practice, while others offer private sessions, groups, workshops, or educational programs.
The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification provides a methodology and practical resources for offering grief support. It does not guarantee employment, clients, or a particular income.
What skills are needed to be a successful grief coach?
Effective grief support requires compassionate listening, understanding how grief affects daily life, clear professional boundaries, sensitivity to different experiences of loss, and knowing when to refer for additional help.
In this certification, you practice guiding mindfulness meditation, journaling, somatic inquiry, and group discussion. Partner exchanges and feedback help you develop pacing, a grounded facilitation style, and the ability to adapt a practice to the client or group in front of you.
What should I look for in a grief coach certification program?
Look for a clear grief-support framework, qualified instructors, ethical guidance, and opportunities to practice rather than just watch lessons. Ask whether you will receive facilitation feedback, client-ready resources, information on scope and referrals, and a meaningful assessment before certification.
This 12-week program combines live instruction, partner exchanges, direct mentoring, personal mindfulness practice, session guides, and a certification exam. You experience the methods yourself before learning to guide clients and groups.
How the Training Works
Find the details of the 12-week live online program, including class dates, weekly time commitment, recordings, partner practice exchanges, and technology requirements.
How long does it take to become a certified grief coach?
The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification includes 12 live online classes delivered over 13 calendar weeks. The February 2027 cohort runs from February 5 through April 30, 2027, with classes on Fridays from 12:00 to 2:00 PM Eastern and no class on March 19.
You’ll also complete approximately 30 minutes of prerecorded lessons each week, eight partner practice exchanges, personal practice, short quizzes, and a 50-question certification exam. You have three months after the final live class to complete the exam.
How much time should I plan each week?
Plan for approximately five hours per week. This includes the two-hour live class or replay, about 30 minutes of prerecorded lessons, personal mindfulness and journaling practice, and partner practice. Time spent can vary from week to week.
Do I have to attend every live class?
Live attendance is strongly encouraged because the classes include discussion, practice, mentoring, questions, and connection with your cohort. It is not required.
Replays are posted within 24 hours so you can keep up with the training when you need to miss a live session.
What happens during live coaching with Heather?
Live classes combine teaching, personal practice, professional mentoring, questions, discussion, and breakout work with other participants.
The cohort is limited to 30 participants so there is room for interaction, feedback, and direct access to Heather throughout the training.
How do the partner practice exchanges work?
During eight weeks of the program, you and a practice partner take turns guiding the work and participating as the client. You also practice giving and receiving feedback.
The purpose is to build facilitation experience, recognize what you are already doing well, identify what you want to improve, and develop the ability to reflect on your own work.
Is the grief coach certification completely online?
Yes. The program is delivered online through weekly live classes, prerecorded lessons, course materials, personal practice, and partner practice.
The live cohort structure is an important part of the training, so this is different from a fully self-paced certification course.
What technology do I need?
You need reliable internet access and a device that can join the live online classes and access the course materials. Headphones or speakers are useful for guided practices and recordings.
Certification, Support, CE, Tuition & Enrollment
Review how to earn the credential, the February 2027 tuition and enrollment details, continuing education status, and the resources and optional community available after certification.
How do I earn the Certified Mindfulness & Grief Coach credential?
Certification requires completion of the weekly lessons and quizzes, the required partner practice exchanges, the course participation or replay requirements, and the 50-question multiple-choice certification exam.
You have three months after the final live class to complete the exam and must agree to ethical practice within your professional scope.
Is there support after I become certified?
Yes. Graduates retain access to training materials and updates, including session guides, meditation scripts, and worksheets. Ethical marketing education is also included.
Graduates may separately join the optional paid Mindfulness & Grief Coaches Circle for monthly masterminds, a certified coach directory listing, and Mindfulness & Grief School access. Coaches Circle membership is not included in tuition.
How much does the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification cost?
Regular tuition for the February 2027 Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification is $1,495. Through November 30, 2026, early enrollment is $1,295, a $200 savings.
Early enrollment also includes immediate access to introductory training videos and the guided meditation library, plus a copy of Heather Stang’s Living with Grief book. You can begin exploring the 8-Step System before live classes start in February.
Are payment options or group discounts available?
Payment options and group discounts may be available. Current options and eligibility are provided during enrollment.
Will continuing education credits be available?
Continuing education approval is currently being pursued for the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification. CE credits are not guaranteed for the February 2027 cohort at this time.
If continuing education is important to you, check this page for updates as CE approval, eligible professions, and credit details are confirmed.
Can I take the certification while I am grieving?
Possibly. Personal practice is part of the certification, and your own experience with grief may contribute to your understanding of the work.
This is professional education rather than a personal grief support group or therapy program. Consider whether you currently have the time, concentration, emotional capacity, and personal support needed for the learning, practice, and assessment requirements.
What is included with early enrollment through November 30?
Enroll by November 30, 2026 for $1,295, which saves you $200 on the regular $1,495 tuition.
You’ll get immediate access to the introductory training videos and guided meditation library, plus a copy of Heather Stang’s Living with Grief book. The digital resources are available right away so you can begin learning before the February 2027 live classes.
Spring 2027 · Enrollment Open
Join the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification
Learn directly from Heather Stang through 12 live online classes, hands-on practice, and personal mentoring. Join the Spring 2027 cohort and build the skills to guide mindfulness-based grief support in your professional work.
Start learning as soon as you enroll
Get immediate access to the introduction training videos and guided meditation library, plus a copy of Heather's Living with Grief book.
Early enrollment pricing and bonuses end November 30, 2026.
Classes begin February 5, 2027 · Fridays, 12–2 PM ET · Recordings available