Perinatal Loss & Traumatic Grief:
an experiential and empirical workshop
April 24-25, 2026
This intensive blends current research on traumatic grief and the nervous system with embodied practice and applied case discussion, equipping participants to meet miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal loss with grounded presence, clinical insight, and compassionate care.
Previous attendees of this training have said:
"This workshop changed the whole course of my career. It made me know I wanted to work with families in bereavement."
"I took your perinatal loss and traumatic grief workshop in 2021...the workshop was transformative for me...I'm so thankful I chose to take it."
"I think it should be a requirement for doulas to learn about loss and grief...[it was] so powerful."
Previous attendees of this training have said:
"This workshop changed the whole course of my career. It made me know I wanted to work with families in bereavement."
"I took your perinatal loss and traumatic grief workshop in 2021...the workshop was transformative for me...I'm so thankful I chose to take it."
"I think it should be a requirement for doulas to learn about loss and grief...[it was] so powerful."
Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider (CBC-Y)
Certification Program
September and October 2026
A seven-day, intensive training program taught by researcher Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and yoga therapist Karla Helbert, LPC at the MISS Foundation Selah Carefarm just outside beautiful Sedona, Arizona. This course is approved for 30 Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) for grief and clinical training plus 30 contact hours through Yoga Alliance with a registered YACEP.
The Compassionate Bereavement Care Certification® program explores and extends current evidence based practices in traumatic grief and is based in a non-medicalized, non-pathologizing, mindfulness-based approach. We teach the art of full presence and compassionate counseling informed by recent science (Cacciatore, 2010; Cacciatore & Flint, 2012; Thielman & Cacciatore, 2013; Cacciatore, Thieleman, Killian, & Tavassoli).
Now Enrolling 2026 Cohort
Bearing the Unbearable ~ The Wisdom Course Online
Available Now
When we love deeply, we mourn deeply. Over ten lessons, grief expert and Zen priest Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and Karla Helbert help us navigate our path through grief, showing us a model that allows us to be with our grief and, over time, transform it into compassionate action in the world.
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