As coaches, we journey alongside our clients as they navigate complex situations, strengthen leadership muscles, expand their emotional intelligence, enhance communication skills, and realize life goals. Grief, our natural and involuntary response to a severed attachment, is a subtle and unexpected part of the coaching experience. We attach to people, places, objects, land, pets, dreams and so much more. When our attachments are severed, grief arises, as a natural and involuntary experience. It is not something to get over, push through, or dismiss. Rather, grief is often described as the price we pay for love. As our clients move through the coaching process, we can better support them if we are able to bear witness to their pain. A grief observed, is a grief that dissipates. Learning how to skillfully companion them as grief arises can be both cathartic and life expanding. In addition, as coaches, we carry our own grief … life losses that we’ve accumulated in our griefcases. Having a safe refuge to explore how we meet and process our life losses can enhance our capacity to be in service of our clients.

For this reason, this discussion group has been created to provide coaches with a welcoming space to learn, grow, and connect with others who are longing to integrate grief in a healthy and holistic way. These bi-monthly, 75 minute sessions will provide you with an opportunity to explore topics related to death, grief, loss, hope, joy, and so much more. Join Certified Thanatologist and ICF PCC Coach Dina Bell-Laroche as she invites your questions, stories and experiences to enhance our collective capacity to be with loss, on behalf of self and others.

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