Grief Educator Certification
Help Others Find Peace
After Even the Most
Devastating Losses
A comprehensive 12-week grief training program taught by David Kessler โ the world's foremost expert on grief โ offered twice a year to a select cohort of professionals.
There's a reason you're here
You Know the Weight of Grief โ and the Difference Someone Can Make
You've experienced or witnessed how loss can break our hearts, obscure hope, and unravel lives. You know there's no shortcut through grief. And yet โ you've also seen that with time and the right guidance, people grow around their wounds and find their way back to love.
The Grief Educator Certification gives you the roadmap, tools, and confidence to be that guide for others โ and to deepen your own healing along the way.
What this training gives you
Change Lives
Help others find resilience they never knew they had โ even after their most shattering losses.
A Proven Pathway
Work from a trusted framework built over four decades of clinical experience with grieving people.
Helping Is Healing
Your experience and story have meaning. This work nourishes you as much as those you serve.
Community & Credentials
Join a network of certified educators and earn your listing on Grief.com upon completion.
The curriculum
A Roadmap for Compassionate, Confident Grief Work
Over 12 weeks, David guides you through the tools and techniques you need to help people navigate grief โ whether you're a therapist, coach, clergy, hospice worker, or someone called to this work through your own experience of loss.
- An in-depth understanding of death, dying, trauma, and grief
- The 6 needs of the grieving and how to help clients find peace
- Practical interventions for the most common setbacks after loss
- How to build genuine connection with grieving clients
- Tools to create and lead grief groups and one-to-one relationships
- Proven strategies for suicide loss, child loss, and complicated grief
- Self-care practices so you can serve others without depleting yourself
- Ongoing support and community after certification
"In grief, the first person you wish you could talk to is no longer alive. The second person to talk to is another who understands grief โ and wants to meet you right where you are."
โ David Kessler
About your teacher
David Kessler
David Kessler is the world's foremost expert on grief. He co-authored two bestselling books with Elisabeth Kรผbler-Ross and has written seven books on death and grief โ including Finding Meaning, which introduced the sixth stage of grief and became a New York Times bestseller.
David has spent four decades working with grieving people and training professionals. He founded Grief.com, the largest grief community online, and his work has been featured across national media. He teaches from both deep expertise and profound personal experience.
Included in the program
Bonus Guest Speakers
Learn from a remarkable lineup of grief experts, clinicians, and practitioners who join David throughout the 12 weeks.
Program availability
Offered Twice a Year
The Grief Educator Certification opens enrollment in the Spring and Fall. Outside of these windows, join the waitlist to receive the brochure and be first notified when a new cohort opens.
Cohort 1
Spring
Enrollment opens early in the year
Cohort 2
Fall
Enrollment opens mid-year
Earn Your Certified Grief Educator Credential
Upon completing the program, you'll receive your official Certified Grief Educator designation โ recognized through Grief.com and backed by David Kessler's four decades of expertise. You'll also be eligible for an exclusive listing on Grief.com, connecting you with people actively seeking support.
What Graduates Are Saying
"This training gave me a framework I could actually use โ not just theory, but real tools for sitting with people in the hardest moments of their lives."
"I came in having lost my mother two years prior. I left with a language for what I had been through โ and the confidence to help others find the same."
"David teaches from his heart as much as his expertise. This isn't just a certification. It genuinely changed how I show up for the people I serve."
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