Grief education & training for individual and collective loss.
How Meghan can help.
Collectively and individually, we continue to navigate grief without resources we both need and deserve. Most people have never received any formal grief education, despite the certainty that every one of us will face profound loss at one time or another. We grieve with our bodies, and suffer physically, mentally, and emotionally with few concrete tools to help ourselves or others process the complicated feelings connected to loss.
Meghan and her team provide grief education and support to companies, small groups, individuals, and clinical service providers. All of her offerings, including keynotes, leadership meetings, online or on-site experiential workshops, clinical certification trainings, and critical support after a loss in the workplace are grounded in the wisdom of Meghan’s decades working in the field.
Keynotes
Customized for a variety of audiences, Meghan’s keynote speeches are a compelling blend of her professional knowledge and her personal experience with loss. These talks reflect her commitment to the importance of identifying and addressing grief while providing core education on its impact on our bodies and our brains.
Experiential Workshops
Created as follow-up to a keynote or as a stand-alone series, these bespoke lectures allow for further education and discussion across a variety of topics. Examples include the impact of loneliness and isolation, layoffs, downsizing, changes in workplace leadership, and the transition to a new role. Drawing from concepts of The Grief Mentor Method™, these workshops provide both language and practical methods to improve communication in the workplace.
Leadership Meetings
These discussions are designed to highlight why and how identifying and addressing grief and loss can lead to a positive work culture. Expanding on universal themes such as effective communication, isolation and loneliness, these conversations are often facilitated as part of board meetings, annual meetings, or leadership off-sites.
Certification Training
Designed to formally educate helpers this twelve part learning series trains clinicians in the The Mentor Method™ . Filling in where there has previously been a lack of education and understanding, the Grief Mentor Method™ offers a concrete model and accessible tools to effectively support yourself and others who are navigating loss. Through lecture and small groups this experiential workshops trains clinical staff to use the Grief Mentor Method™ to create a pathway to critical but often overlooked universal key learnings.
Critical Support After Loss
Meghan and her team support workplaces that have experienced a death of an employee by providing HR and Leadership teams with communication strategies, blueprints to support employees and the surviving family with on-going services, and legacy planning.
What is the Grief Mentor Method™?
Many people still cling to the now defunct “Five Stages of Grief” out of desperation and to have some sort of process to follow. Our trademarked curriculum, The Grief Mentor Method™, is informed by Meghan’s clinical training in trauma, neuroscience, bioscience, grief theory, attachment theory, energy work, integrative nutrition, and various spiritual and cultural traditions.
The Grief Mentor Method™ offers a clear framework and comprehensive process to first explore and ultimately meet your specific needs in grief. The method allows for multiple entry points where a griever can both identify their strengths in navigating loss and discover their growth edges. So whether you are diving in or disconnected from your feelings, The Grief Mentor Method™ encourages you to identify ways in which you would like to grow and change in grief, and provides guidance in how to to try it.
Grievers are often told to feel their feelings without a clear understanding of what that means or what to do. Rather than instruct, The Grief Mentor Method™ suggests ways to access your feelings, and empower you with new learning tools as you learn to navigate loss. Without a model to follow, the enormity of loss can be far too overwhelming.
This comprehensive curriculum highlights six pillars of content that are critical to creating much needed grief-informed culture change for individuals, workplaces, and the world at large. Centered on exploring concepts of Mindfulness, Energy, Nourishment, Translation, Outside, Ritual and Rest, this innovative and proven process helps to instill lasting confidence, impactful skills, and enduring hope to grievers and their supporters.
“Corporate America has an opportunity for cultural leadership by transforming the way grief is addressed.”
Meghan Riordan Jarvis
“The Consequences of Unacknowledged Grief in the Workplace”
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1 : 1 Leadership Consulting
On a limited basis, Meghan provides individuals with short- and long-term 1:1 consulting support. Meghan uses her training in a wide variety of trauma treatment modalities, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Pat Ogden, Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Dick Schwartz, and EMDR, IMAGO, and PACT couples’ therapy, futuring, and mediumship to provide support to individuals who have experienced trauma and/or are committed to providing emotional support around grief and loss to their communities.
Who We Are
A small team of experienced counseling professionals.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Meghan Riordan Jarvis MA, LCSW
Meghan brings over twenty years of experience as a trauma-informed grief and loss therapist to her work with companies. As a writer, podcast host, and facilitator of a free grief-writing course, she excels at explaining complicated physical and emotional aspects of grief and trauma in clear and relatable language.
Chief Operating Officer
Julianne Manske Rollefson MS, LPC-IT
Prior to completing her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and working as a pscyhotherapist specializing in grief and loss, Julianne created and facilitated communication skills and leadership development training programs for companies including Facebook, Harley-Davidson, LinkedIn, and Google.