Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware
The Centre for Climate Psychology will be offering a 3-month Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware, beginning on March 22, 2025, and concluding in June 14 2025.
This new, adapted training is inspired by Francis Weller’s body of work and builds upon his previous “Entering the Healing Ground: Grief Ritual Leadership Training.”
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The Long Dark — A Prolonged Season of Challenge and Renewal
From all observable indicators, the season ahead will be challenging. We have entered what could be called The Long Dark—a time of endings, decay, and dissolution. This prolonged season, spanning a generation or two, will bring tremendous challenges for the earth community. The cumulative losses will touch everything and everyone, and grief will be the keynote for the foreseeable future.
After many years of offering grief rituals, it has become clear that there is an urgent need to share this work with others. The requests are too many, and the need too pressing. It is essential that we generate a robust community of skilled grief tenders. We invite you to come learn with us.
About the Training
This training emerges from over twenty-five years of experimentation in the territory of ritual process. It is an immersive experience focused on the direct application of ritual to the various conditions our communities face due to climate change and the polycrisis. While our focus is on grief rituals, the core elements of this training extend to a wide range of circumstances.
In a time of cultural and environmental trauma, we must revision practices of communal recalibration. Rituals have long served as the means by which villages re-regulate themselves following traumatic encounters. Recalling the unforgotten wisdom that resides at the core of our psychic lives is essential to navigating the turbulent waters of these times.
What You Will Learn
This grief ritual training is based on the body of work developed by Francis Weller and is specifically tailored for individuals who are climate- and polycrisis-aware.
Through this training, you will receive teachings and experiential practices that guide you in navigating the intense emotional terrain that arises in grief ritual spaces.
We incorporate a blend of poetry, ritual, somatics, and imagination to deepen your learning. The program includes both pre-recorded teachings and live sessions, housed in a dedicated Mighty Network where participants can support one another and integrate the teachings.
Join us in this vital work of tending grief and fostering resilience in our communities. Together, we can face The Long Dark with courage and care.
Training Structure
This hybrid program combines five pre-recorded sessions with Francis Weller, live Q&R sessions, and additional integration sessions with facilitators Steffi Bednarek and Holly Truhlar.
What the Training Includes:
Five pre-recorded sessions with Francis Weller, each over 3 hours in length, adapted from the “Entering the Healing Ground” training.
Four live Q&R/integration sessions with Francis Weller.
Three live introduction and integration sessions with Steffi Bednarek and Holly Truhlar.
Supplemental writings, rituals, and resources to support your learning.
A complimentary introduction and chapter from Steffi Bednarek’s book, “Climate, Psychology, and Change,” featuring contributions from Francis Weller.
A dedicated Mighty Network community platform where participants can support one another and integrate the teachings
This training is designed to support individuals who are aware of the impacts of climate change and the polycrisis, providing them with the tools to tend to grief in a communal and ritual-based space.
“The mark of a mature human being is their capacity to hold grief in one hand and gratitude in the other, and be stretched large by these two presences in their life.”
Francis Weller
Grief Ritual Training Schedule
Start Date: March 22, 2025
March 22, 2025
First Pre-recorded training with Francis Weller
Posted on Mighty Networks
Saturday, March 29, 2025
5:00–6:30 PM UK Time / 10:00-11.30 PT
Introduction & Orientation with Steffi Bednarek and Holly Truhlar
Saturday, April 12, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Live Questions & Reflections Session with Francis Weller
Saturday, April 26, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Live Questions & Reflections Session with Francis Weller
Saturday, May 3, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Integration Session with Steffi Bednarek and Holly Truhlar
Saturday, May 10, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Live Questions & Reflections Session with Francis Weller
Saturday, May 24, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Live Questions & Reflections Session with Francis Weller
Saturday, June 14, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM UK Time / 9:00-11:00 AM PT
Closing Session with Steffi Bednarek and Holly Truhlar
Course Fees
Thank you for your interest in our Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware. We'd love to have you join us as we deepen in the work of community grief tending together.
We're offering this training on a sliding scale of USD 750 - USD 900. You can pay in full or in 3 monthly payments.
You will be redirected to Mighty Network where you can complete your purchase. Please note that you must purchase your training registration through a web browser, not the Android or iOS app.
Please note that the training fees are displayed in USD and not processed by the Centre for Climate Psychology.
General Price
900 USD
Reduced Price
750 USD
Discounted rate for those who could otherwise not afford it
Payment Plan
3 x 255 USD
3 monthly payments of 255 USD
For any fee related questions, please contact: griefritualtraining@gmail.com
About the Facilitators
Francis Weller
Francis Weller is an American psychotherapist, writer, and Soul activist.He is the founder of Wisdom Bridge, an educational project that synthesizes psychology, anthropology, and mythology. He has taught at Sonoma State University and the Sophia Center, and he has been the featured teacher at the Minnesota Men’s Conference. He is author of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow”, The Threshold between Loss and Revelation, In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, and “A Trail on the Ground: The Geography of Soul”.
Holly Truhlar
Holly Truhlar (she/they) is a grief therapist, group facilitator, and community organizer. She’s most known for her collaborations with politicized grief tending, collapse psychology, and soul activism. She earned a Doctorate in Law and Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, though she learns the most from her relationships with the Wild, including the land she inhabits, Ancestors, Hekate, and donkeys. Over the last decade, she’s facilitated small and large groups (700+) using ritual, storytelling, creative processes, and Deep Democracy work. She’s co-facilitated with Francis Weller since 2021, including the previous online grief ritual training.
Steffi Bednarek
Steffi Bednarek is the founder and director of the Centre for Climate Psychology. She is a Gestalt psychotherapist, trauma therapist and climate psychologist.With extensive experience in managing trauma services and pioneering community-based grief-tending initiatives, her work centres on the interplay between climate change, complexity, and trauma-informed approaches. Steffi teaches, facilitates, and lectures widely, supporting individuals and organisations in navigating the psychological challenges of the metacrisis while fostering resilience and cultivating cultures of care and regeneration.
