Shaping Grief Integration Group
Wade deeper into the waters of your grief in a compassionate community. This 8 session group will guide therapists and care workers (nurses, doctors, social workers, health aids, helping professionals) into a deeper more intentional relationship with change and loss. We will utilize writing, ritual, guided visualization, creative practice and reflective conversation to meet the web of grief connecting us to one another.
This Shaping Grief Integration Group encourages members to explore the layers of complexity within ambiguous, disenfranchised, vicarious, unresolved or complicated grief. We will find generative ways to engage with layers of unacknowledged loss that otherwise may not be expressed, emotionally processed, and ritualized for closure.
You may be thinking..
I am a burnt out therapist / caring professional with a heavy heart, I am looking for space to get to know my grief without being swallowed by it
I am processing a complicated, unacknowledged or invisible/ambient loss. I’m aware I’m grieving but in ways that don’t fit the typical grief group
I want to integrate my personal losses and the grief I witness daily into my life and healing practice
I am seeking opportunities to access the part of me holding grief - to experience, embody and tend to my broken-open heart.
I need a space to talk though the layers of loss and change in my world with nuance, intention and care.
One where I get community support without having to mask my divergence from ideas about the “right” or “appropriate” way to grieve; or ideas that certain losses are more important than others
This group is …
a community for therapists and care workers in the practice of shaping grief
a virtual gathering space to explore the many layers of grief within your experience: personal, intergenerational, professional, collective & systemic
a place to ritualize, play, learn from and shape your own grief tending practice in supportive community
made up of 8 live sessions to process, release, heal and ground into your own unique orientation to grief medicine.
This group is not…
a typical grief group
a bereavement group to focus on death of a loved one
a space to solely process a recent loss
Participation.
This integration group will support therapists and care workers in challenging the assumption that there is a “right way” to grieve. Bringing to light the ways we have internalized ableism, colonization, and the pathologization of natural expressions of grief; we will surface and reclaim practices that affirm our ancestry and lived experience. In community, we will name our defenses against grief while fluidly embracing the practices and postures that invite more curiosity and receptivity to our own and other’s grief. Over the course of 8 facilitated sessions, participants will integrate dimensions of their own grief through intentional conversation, guided ritual practice, creative writing, and more.
Please note: This group is not the best space for someone in acute grief, mental health crisis, psychosis, or navigating acute depression or anxiety. This group offers a paced, intentional dive into dark waters and requires an ecosystem of support, with loving relationships. Members are encouraged to engage in individual therapy during the course of the group and beyond. The facilitator is available to offer individual support and happy to discuss this in a 1:1 consultation.
If you are in acute grief or crisis and seeking support to process the recent death of a loved one, you can find additional grief groups at these links:
https://www.griefshare.org/https://www.griefincommon.com/
https://www.jamiethrower.com/queer-grief-club
This group may be a good fit if you are grieving:
The ongoing impacts of colonization
A changing, aging body
An ambiguous or incomplete loss
Lost connection to land, ancestry, elders or tradition
Identities shed to step into authenticity
A loss of faith, hope for the future
A death or loss you are still making sense of
Loss of skills or diminished capacity
The violence endured at the hands of oppressive systems
Schedule.
This Shaping Grief group will guide members through 8 sessions exploring different dimensions of their grief experience. Each group will meet for 1 hour and 45 mins on Wednesdays from 2:45-4:30pm EST, from September–December 2026.
Group Schedule with biweekly session frequency:
Sep 2, 2026
Sep 16, 2026
Oct 7, 2026
Oct 21, 2026
Nov 4, 2026
Nov 18, 2026
Dec 2, 2026
Dec 16, 2026
Finances.
This payment structure is inspired and informed by the justice-oriented models put forth by Worts & Cunning Apothecary, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, and Corporeal Writing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.
As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (retirement, savings, investments, expectation of an inheritance; how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and world); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.
$1120 — Solidarity
$880 — True Value
$640/mo — Community Care
Payments will be invoiced via Stripe and monthly payment plans can be made available upon request.
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Please note:
The KTC Shaping Grief Integration Group is a peer support process group and not clinical supervision or group therapy.
You can contact Dani with questions about the group via email. Applications will be read on a rolling basis with a focus on maintaining an intimate, generative environment.