What People Are Saying

8-Week Course Participant Testimonials.

  • "Grateful for the love and sweat Amy and Naila put into this project. Absolutely loved the art time followed by discussion. I liked zoning out and feeling like I came into myself midway through art time as I am focused on the colors and less whatever was occupying my mind before 530p. Truly a transformational experience that I did not even know I needed."

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2023

  • "Amy is a delightful group leader that helped me get through some old tough feelings of mourning. I highly recommend this class and and I wish it were longer!"

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2023

  • “The Grief Medicine course was the nourishment my soul craved after the loss of my parent. Being in community with others who understood loss from the inside gave me a place to explore ways to embrace my grief process in service of my own healing. Amy created a connected and loving online space filled with art and rich resources I can take with me and use in the future”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2023

  • “More than anything else, this course taught me how to connect with people again and how strangers can offer one another support during their most trying times.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2021

  • "I thought I was very familiar with grief because I have experienced so much personal loss in my lifetime. I did not realize how little I actually knew about it until taking this course. Amy was a most compassionate and kind facilitator who guided us through our different forms of grief in a way where I felt held and cared for. I appreciated the expressive arts activities and writing prompts that she shared in the course, and the sacred space of connecting and sharing.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2021

  • “I felt completely supported by Amy and by the other participants in this journey. I loved the art activities, which gave me a channel for expressing some of the feelings I would not have found words for. The group was a safe space for finding my way through grief, and I am grateful for it.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2021

  • “Thank you, Amy, for providing a safe space & facilitating an amazing 6 weeks. Thursdays were the highlight of my week knowing I'd get to see everyone. I truly didn't expect to feel SO supported & safe in a virtual environment.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Fall 2020

  • "I've been in a lot of grief spaces in the last 3+ years. I can honestly say that the Grief Medicine Course has been the most beneficial space I've been in. The facilitators are kind and tender and allowed everyone to be exactly where they were in their grief. The container they created was gentle, soft and safe. The art and writing prompts were thought provoking and helped to process my grief in a meaningful way. The community that was built in our space felt hand knit with love, bravery, authenticity and care. I didn't want the 8 weeks to be over. They went by much too fast. It has been hard for me to find spaces that I really feel 100% safe and heard and seen in, where I feel that my beliefs around grief are okay and even honored. I felt all these things in this course. At the end of the 8 weeks I felt more confident in how I want to live with my grief and honor and connect with my son.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2024

  • "The Grief Medicine Course has provided me with the knowledge and tools to move forward with my grief apprenticeship. Before taking the course, I was stuck in feelings of grief. It felt impossible to open up and talk about due to the fear of being overcome. This course provided a safe and inclusive space to begin opening up and sharing with others who are also in grief. It has also given me a better understanding of the needs of my grief and how I can continue to be in apprenticeship with it. Amy is a kind and compassionate facilitator who thoughtfully guided the group allowing us the space to feel, share, listen, and create art along the way"

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2023

  • "The Grief Medicine Course provided a space to access a kind of healing I knew I needed but couldn't articulate in words. I'm glad I trusted my body's instinct to sign up. This course confirmed my knowledge that certain layers of healing must be done within safe community to fully be felt. Grief can be an immensely isolating experience, and this group helped shift something inside me that was locked for thirteen year. After being in this space with my cohort, I feel more free. I'm so thankful for this experience; I am not the same as I was two months ago"

    Grief Medicine Participant, Fall 2023

  • "Amy creates a sacred space that is safe and supportive to work through the "edge of sorrow." In this course, I learned that we all carry some form of grief. That grief is not something that you just "get over" or "get cured from," but grief is rather a process, a "sacred journey" that you learn to embrace and embody. This grief medicine course gives you creative art projects and writing prompts to help shed layers of grief, and assists you with unearthing thoughts and feelings that you may not have otherwise unpacked"

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2023

  • ”More than anything else, this course taught me how to connect with people again and how strangers can offer one another support during their most trying times.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Fall 2021

  • “My mom passed in July 2021... and I feel like I've just been coming out of the fog of grief at the beginning of this year. This course helped me connect with my experience by hearing the lectures from Amy and by hearing the experiences of other group members in different stages of grief. I feel like I understand what happened... in ways that I didn't... that I couldn't before…I feel encouraged to speak more openly about my grief... and asking people who I am close to how I need their support. While I had a practice of the former, the latter is more new. I feel like I have ideas about how to find what I need from my community when I am feeling low... whether its to share where I am, spending time with people, and maybe even more importantly understand who does and does not have capacity to give me such care.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2024

Untraining Testimonials

  • “Excellent! Really appreciated the experiential exercises + the presenter’s background (professional and personal and creative). Loved the pace. Didn’t feel rushed. Felt relaxed and spacious.”

  • “Experiential focus was PERFECT for the subject. So helpful to “do” what we will share with our clients!”

  • “An all day experiential where we could be our clients. This was quite nice. It’s scary for me to be vulnerable in a group. While it was still challenging, Amy was able to invite everyone’s compassion in.”

  • “The experiential were THE BEST. I’ve been to many presentations and workshops on grief…all the “thinking” workshops. This is better (and preferred) experience and learning opportunity.

  • “Great balance of slides + experiential. Gentle and strong leadership style, inclusive, authentic.”

“This workshop was a beautiful ship that guided me through rough passageways of grief. I took the workshop for support, because my mother had died recently, but it turned out I learned so much about varied losses in my life, and I felt completely supported by Amy and by the other participants in this journey. I loved the art activities, which gave me a channel for expressing some of the feelings I would not have found words for. The group was a safe space for finding my way through grief, and I am grateful for it.”

- Grief Medicine Workshop Participant