After a suicide loss, many people find themselves replaying conversations, searching for answers, and wondering what they may have missed. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, Dr. Rebecca Sanford explores the role guilt can play in suicide bereavement and how it can shape the grieving experience. This conversation invites participants to better understand guilt, reflect on its origins, and consider new ways of relating to it while living with grief.

The holiday season can bring many mixed emotions after the death of a significant person. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, the team from What’s Your Grief explores how traditions, expectations, and memories can shape grief experiences during this time of year. This conversation invites participants to reflect on their needs for the season and consider ways to approach the holidays with intention, flexibility, and care for themselves.

Stories can play a powerful role in how people understand and express grief. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, educator and grief specialist Ted Bowman explores how storytelling, metaphor, and narrative can help people find words for experiences of loss. This conversation invites participants to reflect on how stories shape the way we talk about grief and how they can support meaning-making during times of change and transition.

Grief can be shaped by many personal and cultural factors, including identity and community. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, Queer Asterisk explores considerations for understanding grief within LGBTQ+ communities. The conversation invites participants to reflect on how stigma, disenfranchised grief, and barriers to inclusive care can affect the grieving experience, while offering insights for creating more supportive and affirming spaces.

Supporting children and families after a death loss often involves understanding how grief affects the entire family system. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, the team from Judi’s House explores the role that community can play in supporting bereaved youth and the adults who care for them. The conversation invites participants to consider ways families, caregivers, and communities can work together to better support children living with grief.

Grief can be shaped by identity, culture, and the environments we move through each day, including the workplace. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, PAUSE explores how grief shows up at work and how organizations can better support employees in culturally responsive ways. This conversation invites participants to reflect on the role of identity in grief and consider approaches that honor diverse experiences and community-based support.

Experiences of trauma and loss can shape how people understand themselves and their lives moving forward. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, Matt Griffin explores the idea that meaning can be found even within difficult experiences. This conversation invites participants to reflect on how perspectives on trauma may shift over time and to consider ways people make sense of grief and change.

Personal rituals can offer a meaningful way to process grief and life changes. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, Dr. Troyer explores how private rituals may support reflection, connection, and personal transformation. This conversation invites participants to consider how intentional practices can create space for grief while honoring individual experiences and needs.

Grief can affect leaders in unique ways, especially when they are also supporting others. In this Educational Signature Series presentation, Dr. Tonya Cunningham explores how grief can impact those in leadership roles and the balance between caring for others and attending to one’s own experience. This conversation invites participants to reflect on the emotional demands of leadership and consider ways to navigate grief with awareness and support.

Grief is often more complex than many people expect, and supporting others through loss can bring its own challenges. In these Educational Signature Series presentations, Harold Ivan Smith explores both the experience of grief beyond common frameworks and the moments when words feel difficult to find. These conversations invite participants to reflect on how grief is understood and how presence and compassion can support others.