Grief arrives in many forms and disrupts our daily lives. As prevalent as breath, it is part of every human story, requiring us to reorient to life in ways we had not imagined. 

The practice of grateful living can nourish your daily life and empower you to find meaning and purpose in unexpected places. This grateful stance acknowledges heartbreak while strengthening your ability to carry your sorrow alongside your joy.

Yearning for what was and embracing what is, blessing your loss while integrating it into the life that is emerging in its wake — this is grateful grief.

I’m better able to hold grief and gratitude at the same time with no need to let go of one in order to embrace the other.

Gaye R.

In this course, you will discover and explore:

Key teachings to adopt a grateful orientation to life, even while navigating grief

Practices to honor your unique experience of loss and reframe the future

Strategies to increase your ability to experience joy alongside sorrow

Personal stories of grief and gratefulness from world-renowned special guests

Curated resource toolkits to enrich your learning journey

Meet the Instructors

Joe Primo - CEO, Grateful Living

Joe Primo

Chief Executive Officer

In my work as a hospice chaplain to more than 2,500 patients and then building programs to support thousands of grieving children and families, my understanding of grief was forged by lives that were meeting endings and uncertainty. The enormous amount of death I have encountered in my work taught me that grief is not an adversary, but rather a process of re-emergence to an unimagined life. In a world where grief remains stigmatized, empowered grief is more manageable grief.

Sheryl Chard

Director of Education

I was blessed to spend three decades working with young people and educators. I expected to learn about pedagogy, human development, and leadership. I never imagined how much I would learn about loss and grief. Working in schools, I saw up close the many forms of loss and grief experienced by young people and their families. And I saw the transformative difference it could make to have the accompaniment of community and resources to light a way forward.

Featuring Special Guests

Francis Weller

Susan Cain

David Whyte

Dacher Keltner

Patricia June Vickers

Explore the five universal components of grief that exist throughout your unique experiences of loss and discover grateful living as an orientation to life.

Practice pausing to resist the pressure to return to “normal”, reorient to grief as sacred, and acknowledge the uniqueness of your grief experience.

Expand your ability to experience both joy and grief, and seek nourishment in life’s beauty.

Discover how gratefulness can increase your sense of belonging and help you attune to your connection to all of life.

Tap into the healing capacities of wonder and awe and integrate loss into your identity as a way forward.

Envision how it would be to live in a way that honors your grief and discover how gratefulness can support this vision.

Participant Feedback

As a hospice chaplain and grief counselor I know a lot about the grief process, but I found new perspectives and offerings here. As a new widow myself, I was blessed with insights, courage, and compassion.

Deborah C.

The course has helped me to gain a richer and more nuanced understanding of grief and the life-changing potential that gratefulness holds for me.

John M.

The course was excellent in so many ways — content, organization, speakers, and additional support information. It changed my life and how I deal with grief.

Theresa R.

I appreciated the wide variety of perspectives as a concrete reminder of how we can connect through our shared humanity, even as our own experiences and lenses are so unique.

Liz S.