The professional marketplace for grief care
Find out what's next in grief care.
Training, jobs, events, and resources from across the field, open to every professional title.
Every title welcome
Grief care is a wide field and most of it works under different names. People doing the same work look for training, jobs, and colleagues in different places. GriefField is built for all of them.
Grief covers loss of every kind. Death, divorce, job loss, illness, estrangement, identity change, career transition. The work you do with any of it belongs here.
- Grief coaches
- Therapists and counselors
- Chaplains and clergy
- Death doulas
- Bereavement coordinators
- Hospice staff
- Funeral professionals
- Educators and speakers
- Facilitators
- Authors and researchers
Training, jobs, events, and resources in one place
Grief training and courses
Courses and certificate programs in grief and loss. GriefField's own courses and training listed from other providers sit in the same list, in the same format.
Browse LearnGrief care jobs
Current job, contract, and volunteer listings. Bereavement coordinator, grief counselor, chaplain, hospice social worker, aftercare coordinator, and more. Each listing links to the employer's original posting.
Browse WorkSupport groups and events
Support groups, workshops, retreats, conferences, and webinars, dated, with the host named.
Browse GatherResources and tools
Books, podcasts, apps, worksheets, and organizations for your own practice and for the people you serve.
Browse UseEvery listing shows the provider or employer, format, location, cost, duration, and date so you can compare without opening ten tabs.
Starting out in grief work? Start here.
Foundations of Non-Clinical Grief Support
A self-paced course for new grief coaches, doulas, chaplains, peer support leaders, and career changers. You learn what grief looks like across every kind of loss, how to listen without fixing, how to structure a support relationship, and where your role ends and a clinician's begins. No prior grief training required.
- Length
- 70 hours of instruction in 14 modules
- Pace
- Most people finish in 10 to 12 weeks
- Tuition
- $895
- Award
- GriefField Certificate of Completion. Check with your own licensing or credentialing organization if you need CE hours.
Developed and published by GriefField.
Explore trainingNew training, jobs, and events every week
GriefField Weekly is one short email. New courses, open positions, and upcoming events, described plainly, one link per item.
Get GriefField updatesReach the people who work in grief care
Trainers, employers, event hosts, support group leaders, nonprofits, and publishers can submit a training, a job, an event, or a resource for review. Submissions are checked against the original source before they go live.
Submit an opportunityIf you came here looking for support for yourself
GriefField is built for professionals, but Gather and Use are open to everyone. Gather lists support groups you can attend. Use lists books, podcasts, and organizations written for people who are grieving.
If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 in the United States and Canada, or contact your local emergency service. For urgent or ongoing mental health support, consider reaching out to a qualified local professional.
Questions people ask
What is GriefField?
GriefField is an education and opportunity platform for people who work with grief. It publishes its own training and lists jobs, events, and resources from across the grief care field.
Does a listing on GriefField mean it is approved?
No. Listings are listed on GriefField. Each one shows the provider or employer, format, location, cost, duration, and date so you can read what a thing is and decide for yourself.
Can I submit a training, job, event, or resource?
Yes. Trainers, employers, event hosts, support group leaders, nonprofits, and publishers can submit a listing for review. Submissions are checked against the original source before they go live.
Is the GriefField course a certification?
No. You receive a GriefField Certificate of Completion, which documents that you finished the course and passed its assessments. Certification is granted by credentialing organizations, not by training providers. If you need CE hours, check with your own licensing or credentialing organization before you enroll.