Create spaces where people can connect through shared grief
Facilitating a peer grief group is both a skill and an act of care. This training helps participants move beyond “helping” into genuine accompaniment.
Grounded in the RIVER model, this training explores how to hold space for diverse experiences of loss, navigate group dynamics, and respond to emotional intensity with steadiness and compassion.
This course has been approved by Peer Support Community Partners, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 2 CEs. NAADAC Provider #347594, Peer Support Community Partners is responsible for all aspects of its programming. These CEs count towards the Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development category for Addiction Professionals. There is an additional fee of $20 for obtaining CEs. For a full refund of payment for CEs, cancellations must be made 7 or more days before the training.
This training is designed for:
- Individuals who are grieving or have experienced loss
- Peer support specialists, recovery coaches, and community health workers
- Mental health and substance use recovery peer professionals
- Anyone looking to start or strengthen a peer grief support group
Facilitation as presence, structure, and care
This training explores how to hold space for diverse experiences of loss, navigate group dynamics, and respond to emotional intensity with steadiness and compassion.
Whether you are leading a new group or strengthening an existing one, this session offers practical tools and reflective practices to help you guide with empathy and authenticity.
The course integrates trauma-informed, equity-centered, and relational approaches that honor the complexity of grief and the wisdom that peers bring to one another.
This is not a clinical or professional grief counseling training, but rather an opportunity to learn and grow through shared understanding, cultural humility, and community-based support.