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Grief First Aid

A 16-week educational pathway for recognizing grief, responding with care, connecting to appropriate support, and sustaining support.

Your four-pillar learning pathway

Explore the established lessons and educators below. These four overviews are connected to this Grief First Aid section, without changing any original curriculum, teaching media or checkout destinations.

PILLAR 1 · Malik

RECOGNIZE

Learn to recognize different experiences of grief and notice when support may be helpful.

Weeks 1 to 4

  1. Understanding Grief: What It Is and What It Isn't
  2. The Six Dimensions of Grief
  3. Different Grief Experiences
  4. Recognizing Support Needs

Explore RECOGNIZE and its four weeks →

PILLAR 2 · Zuri

RESPOND

Practice presence, listening and practical help without trying to fix another person's grief.

Weeks 5 to 8

  1. Approach, Presence & Emotional Safety
  2. Listening Without Fixing
  3. What to Say & What Not to Say
  4. Practical Grief First Aid

Explore RESPOND and its four weeks →

PILLAR 3 · Nia

CONNECT

Explore support circles, appropriate resources, referrals and sustainable connection.

Weeks 9 to 12

  1. Building Circles of Support
  2. Professional & Community Resources
  3. When More Help Is Needed
  4. Keeping Connection Sustainable

Explore CONNECT and its four weeks →

PILLAR 4 · Amara

SUSTAIN

Plan reliable later care, healthy boundaries, supporter capacity and ongoing practice.

Weeks 13 to 16

  1. Grief Doesn't End After the Funeral
  2. Boundaries & Scope
  3. Supporting the Supporter
  4. Integration & Grief First Aid Practice

Explore SUSTAIN and its four weeks →

Enrollment options

Course availability notice

These Stripe checkout links are connected, but automated post-payment classroom access is not yet activated. Week 1 is currently the only published learner lesson. The remaining weekly teaching materials, videos, workbooks, assessments and protected access must pass their release checks before they can be opened to students. A payment does not itself issue a certificate.

Your learner pathway

Use the four linked pillar overviews to see the sixteen-week course plan. Only the Week 1 teaching page is currently connected for reading; the other weeks are not falsely represented as published or unlocked.

Read Week 1 of RECOGNIZE · Learner progress and certificate readiness

Completion and certificates

Certificates may be issued only after actual program requirements are satisfied and verified. Assessment, identity, certificate issuance and verification integrations require owner implementation. This listing does not record completion or issue credentials.

GGN provides education and navigation and does not diagnose or provide medical or mental-health treatment. This is not an emergency service. Find crisis resources.