FREE LIVE TRAINING

Helping Others With Grief in 2026

Learn to Guide Others Through the Unpredictable Path of Loss

A free one-hour session with DAVID KESSLER

For Those Who Want to Help

Whether you’ve known deep loss yourself or often hold space for others, this conversation offers steady, usable tools to meet grief with presence and care.

This session is for anyone who feels the pull to help: therapists, coaches, chaplains, community leaders, and all who walk alongside someone in grief.

Wednesday, January 21st
11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT

Helping Others with Grief in 2026

Learn the techniques that make all the difference 

Wednesday, January 21st
11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT

A replay will be sent to everyone who registers

In this free session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Support someone in grief without rushing to fix or make it better

  • Use grounded, real-world language that brings comfort, not clichés

  • Recognize the most common mistakes well-meaning helpers make (and how to avoid them)

  • Offer presence even when you feel unsure, emotional, or triggered yourself

  • Understand how grief and trauma show up differently and why it matters

  • Find your place in the grief support landscape, even if you're not a therapist

  • Begin integrating what you’ve lived through into meaningful, relational support for others

 

Serve Your Community

Learn the tools and techniques to help others navigate the rocky terrain of grief.

Grief Must be Witnessed

Learn how to listen deeply and meet people where they are in their journey.

Confidently Guide Others

Understand the 6 needs of the grieving to meet them where they are now.

Share Your Wisdom 

Turn your pain into purpose and guide others through the darkest days.

David Kessler

David Kessler is a grief specialist, speaker, and author of seven books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, as well as a new Finding Meaning Companion Workbook.

He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.

David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey. For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. However, despite his vast knowledge of grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son.

He now facilitates a new model of online grief groups that are attended by people worldwide and he leads one of the most respected online grief certificate programs.