Practical learning for people and organizations supporting grief
The PSCP Learning Hub is the central home for our trainings, from on-demand courses to virtual sessions and on-site workshops. Rooted in lived experience, the Hub offers individuals, organizations, and communities practical tools, compassionate practices, and transformative learning experiences.
Whether you are just beginning to explore peer grief support or ready to deepen existing programs, the PSCP Learning Hub provides pathways to build skills, strengthen resilience, and create meaningful change.
Some people are looking for peer-informed tools they can use right now. Some want to learn more about grief through workshops. Others are ready to build skills, strengthen programs, or bring peer grief support into an organization. The Learning Hub brings these paths together.
Trainings
PSCP’s customized trainings are available for individuals and organizations looking to learn more about peer grief support. From our foundational RIVER training to trainings on building resiliency in the workforce, group organizing, and more, these trainings offer something for everyone, regardless of where you are in your grief journey.
Trainings may be taken individually or as part of a comprehensive training plan. Learn more about existing trainings below or contact us about requesting a unique training topic. Group-based pricing is available, contact us to learn more.
Four foundational trainings
These trainings give individuals, teams, and organizations a practical way to build stronger peer grief support capacity. Register for a specific training, explore the full list of upcoming offerings, or download the foundational trainings flyer.
Grief Support 101
A foundational training for people who want to better understand grief and learn how to support people with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.
Peer Grief by Design
A training for thinking intentionally about peer grief support and how support can be designed within communities, programs, and organizations.
Facilitating Peer Grief Groups
A practical training for people who want to help create, hold, and facilitate supportive peer grief spaces.
RIVER Peer Grief Support
PSCP’s foundational peer grief support model, grounded in lived experience and the intentions to Relate, Invite, Validate, Empower, and Reassure.
Psychoeducational Workshops
PSCP’s psychoeducational workshop series provides an opportunity for anyone to learn about topics related to losing a loved one to substance-related-causes. Whether you are bereaved and are looking to better understand your experience and identify coping skills, or you are looking to help somebody you care about who is grieving, you are welcome to attend these workshops.
Workshops are offered live and on-demand. Learn more at the Psychoeducational Workshop page linked below.
Psychoeducational Workshops
Explore PSCP’s full psychoeducational workshop page, including current and on-demand offerings.
View Psychoeducational WorkshopsOn-Demand Workshops
Access previously recorded workshops when you want learning you can return to on your own schedule.
View On-Demand WorkshopsA Library of Lived Experience
PSCP’s free guides offer an opportunity for readers to witness real experiences of grief and the ways peers find meaning, strength, and connection through shared support. These guides are practical, compassionate tools for every step of your grief journey.
Created by people who have lived through grief, these resources are designed to help you feel connection, make sense of your experience, and find your way forward in a way that is true to you.
All guides are available as free PDF downloads. Some titles are also available as printed booklets through What’s Your Grief.
Connection, meaning, and service
How to Channel Your Grief Into Service to Others
A peer-informed guide for turning grief energy into meaningful service, advocacy, outreach, or support for others.
How to Find Supportive Community While Grieving
Practical, peer-informed direction for finding connection and community after the death of someone important.
How to Channel Your Grief Into Supportive Activities
Grounded ideas for moving grief energy into supportive, practical, and meaningful activities.
Navigating grief in real life
How to Cope with Grief While in Recovery
A guide for navigating grief while protecting recovery, support, stability, and connection.
How to Navigate Grief During Holidays, Anniversaries, Birthdays, and Special Events
Support for moving through meaningful dates, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and other tender milestones.
Mindfulness in Grief
An introductory guide to mindfulness practices that can support people as they move through grief.
Download Free PDFComplex grief experiences
Grief and Stigma: How to Navigate Misunderstanding
A guide for understanding and responding to stigma, judgment, and misunderstanding after a difficult loss.
Download Free PDFGrief and Anger: How to Cope With a Natural Reaction to Loss
A guide that validates grief-related anger and offers practical ways to understand and move with it.
Download Free PDFGrandparents Raising Grandchildren: Providing Love and Stability Amid Loss and Grief
Support, reassurance, and resources for grandparents caring for grandchildren while navigating loss and grief.
Download Free PDFNot Sure Where to Start?
Check out the Work with PSCP page linked below. This page provides information on the different paths to working with PSCP: 1) A Full System Design and Implementation or 2) Choosing Individual Services.
Work With PSCP