Grief Groups & Shared Spaces

A shared space for Alzheimer's caregivers

Caring for someone with Alzheimer's can involve losses that occur gradually, repeatedly, and sometimes without a clear moment of separation.

This group is for caregivers navigating changes in relationship, roles, communication, identity, and daily life while the person they love is still present. There is room here for grief alongside love, frustration, exhaustion, humor, resentment, tenderness, uncertainty—and experiences that may be difficult to name.

The group does not require you to define what you are experiencing as grief or to feel a particular way about caregiving.

Virtual/In Person • Adults • Ongoing

An exploratory space for dreams, grief, memory, and continuing relationships

Loss often appears in dreams.

A person who died may return. 

Someone who is living may appear as they once were—or as someone entirely different. Dreams may revisit a death, change what happened, create conversations that never occurred, blur time, restore a relationship, disturb it, or leave behind an experience that feels difficult to explain.

Some dreams feel comforting. Others are frightening, confusing, ordinary, absurd, or profoundly significant.

Dreaming After Loss is a space to explore the experience of these dreams without requiring agreement about what dreams are, where they come from, or what they mean.

A dream may be understood psychologically, symbolically, spiritually, neurologically, relationally, or remain unexplained.

The purpose of the group is not to arrive at the correct interpretation. Participants can describe what happened, notice what remained after waking, wonder about images or relationships within the dream, consider possible meanings, or simply allow the dream to remain what it was.

Not every dream needs interpretation. Not every meaningful dream needs explanation.

Virtual/In person • Adults • Upcoming

A shared space for people grieving a death by suicide

A death by suicide can leave grief entangled with questions, uncertainty, anger, guilt, relief, stigma, unanswered conversations, and the stories people tell about what happened and why.

This group offers a space with others who share something important about the circumstances of the loss without assuming that their relationships, experiences, or grief are the same.

There is no expectation that questions will be answered, that conflicting feelings will be resolved, or that the person who died—or the relationship with them—must be understood in a particular way.

You may talk, listen, question, remember, be angry, laugh, sit with uncertainty, or simply be present.

Virtual/In Person • Adults 

When someone or something important is gone—and not entirely gone

Some losses do not offer a clear separation or ending.

A person may be physically present but profoundly changed by dementia, serious illness, addiction, brain injury, or other circumstances. 

Someone may be physically absent while the relationship remains psychologically present, as can happen with estrangement, disappearance, incarceration, immigration, or relationships that end without resolution.

Ambiguous loss can also involve the loss of a future, role, relationship, or way of life when there is no single moment that clearly marks what has been lost.

This group offers space for people living with losses that can be difficult to name, where presence and absence may coexist.

There is no requirement to find closure, resolve the ambiguity, or decide what the loss is “supposed” to mean. The uncertainty itself can have a place here.

Virtual/In person • Adults • Ongoing

When the grief is real, but recognition of it may not be

Some grief occurs without the recognition, support, or social permission often given to other losses.

The relationship may not be acknowledged. 

The loss may be minimized or misunderstood. Circumstances surrounding it may carry stigma, secrecy, judgment, or conflicting beliefs. Sometimes other people simply do not understand why the loss matters as much as it does.

This can include grief following estrangement, abortion, miscarriage, infertility, the death of an ex-partner or complicated relationship, overdose, incarceration, loss connected to identity or role, relationships others did not know about or recognize, and many other experiences that do not fit easily within conventional expectations of grief.

This group offers a space where you do not have to prove that your loss qualifies as a loss before you can talk about what it means to you.

Your relationship, choices, circumstances, or feelings do not have to be simplified in order to make your grief easier for someone else to understand.

Virtual • Adults • Upcoming

Creative exploration of grief through art, image, and making

Not every experience of grief arrives in words. And not everything that takes form needs to be explained.

Grief in Form offers a facilitated space for exploring grief through image, color, shape, texture, objects, writing, and other forms of creative expression. Participants are invited to notice what emerges without requiring the work to tell a particular story or carry a particular meaning.

The purpose is not to make “good” art, interpret what is created, or turn creative expression into another requirement to disclose. You may create, observe, talk about what emerged—or choose not to explain it at all.

No artistic experience is needed.

Offered as separate groups for adults and adolescents so that each group can have a space appropriate to its own experience and developmental context.

Adults • Virtual / In Person
Adolescent/ Teen • Virtual / In Person