Upcoming Grief Medicine Events
It is a healing balm to be in community with one another at the
intersections of our grief.
To serve an array of connection needs, we host semi-regular small group gatherings at the beach, more sustained online grief group containers, intimate in-person support groups, and engaging grief education opportunities for therapists.
Please see below for more information about our upcoming group offerings, along with additional pathways to work with me.
Grief Medicine Retreat
A Gathering to Soothe the Broken Heart
Sept 05 -
Sept 07, 2025
Let us accompany you on your
journey through grief. Please join us for a
3-day nature retreat
at the historic
Quaker Center
in Ben Lomond, CA.
Grief is not something we’re meant to go through alone, no matter how solitary the work can be. As we gather in community and in kinship with the natural world, we find a sense of belonging in our shared grief, helping to metabolize our losses and transmute them into a balm to soothe our own hearts, and the broken heart of our world
12-Week In-Person Traumatic Loss Group
Late January 2025
The Inner Richmond, SF
7:15PM - 8:45PM Wednesday Nights
Offering a 12-week in-person traumatic
loss group for folks who have experience
a traumatic loss and feel you may benefit
from a supportive space
to learn, be witnessed and connect with others.
About the group: You do not have to carry this on your own. Grief is way too big to hold by yourself, especially if it was a traumatic, unexpected, catastrophic, life-altering loss. This group is for people who are seeking a place of comfort and support to process the impossible loss they are facing with others who get it. We will bring awareness to our bodies and how they hold our emotions as well as our capacity to tend to them. Expressive arts techniques will also be brought in as a way to tend to, and work with our grief.
This will be a smaller group, around 6-8 people. A hypoallergenic small dog may join sometimes as my co-therapist.
Testimonials
“Deep gratitude for the care, non-judgment, and sensitivity with which Amy built our sacred container with us to hold all the grief we brought into it, the flexibility we had to move between processing our grief verbally and physically and the wonderful art and other experiential activities as we wanted/needed in a given session. Amy was always finely attuned to what we needed and was there to support that in session. I appreciated all the rituals that tied it all (and our group) together on our 12-week journey. A very heartfelt bow of thanks for creating an in-person weekly village to hold each individual's, as well as our collective grief!”
- 12-Week Group Participant, Fall 2024
“As a group we created an inviting and protective space to share the expansiveness of grief without constraints or judgement, facilitating healing and growth in ways I never imagined.”
- 12-Week Group Participant, Fall 2024
Please reach out if you are interested with a call or text at
(650) 762-9220 or email me amyhyunswart@gmail.com.
Untraining: A Grief Education Course
2024 Date -
TBA
An 8-week grief education course
for therapists and healers
to grow their knowledge in working
with populations experiencing grief.
As therapists, we are seldom taught how to be with grief in our graduate programs yet loss is everywhere. Every client who walks into your office is in one way or another, impacted by loss. When we know pain, we are more empathetic to the grief and pain of others. When we anesthetize our own pain, we anesthetize the pain of others, too. To be well-versed in the world of grief therapy, we often have to re-examine what we learned in our programs and see what really helps our clients when they are in the throes of grief. I work with clinicians and healers to access and tend to their grief from the inside and view grief as one of the key ingredients to dismantling the structures that perpetuate harm to build more resilience and courage in these heartbreaking times.
Grief Gatherings by the Sea
Please join us in person for our semi-regular
Grief Gatherings by the Sea in Albany, CA
Details for each gathering will be announced via the Grief Medicine Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/griefmedicine/
Personalized Grief Support Offerings
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Personalized Rituals
Offering culturally sensitive, non-denominational grief rituals for families and communities to process grief together and feel supported after experiencing a loss. Create something personal or join us for semi-regular, in-person Grief Gatherings by the Sea in Albany, CA.
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Crisis Response
Offering traumatic loss processing for families, friends, and communities, businesses and organizations, non-profit healthcare workers, residential treatment program,
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Consultations
Offering individual consultation for those whose vocation includes holding space for grief via rituals, groups, individual therapy, or as a community leader. In our time together we can focus on whatever you need support around, whether it’s a specific case you are working on, crafting a ritual, or helping you learn to trust in your skills as facilitator.
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Grief Medicine UnTrainings
As therapists, we are seldom taught how to be with grief in our graduate programs yet loss is everywhere and every client who walks into your office is in one way or another, impacted by loss. To be well-versed in the world of grief therapy, we often have to re-examine what we learned in our programs and see what really helps our clients when they are in the throes of grief.
