Deep dive workshops

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4-week interactive Zoom workshops featuring in-depth exploration, guided conversation, reflection prompts, and journaling tools.​​​

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AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY? NAVIGATING COMPLICATED & AMBIVALENT GRIEF (Jaletta Albright Desmond)


Wednesdays 6:00 - 7:30 pm Eastern

• February 18, 25 

• March 4, 11 

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Explore the unique challenges of grief that is complicated by virtue of life circumstances, the relationship you had with the person, and/or conflicting emotions. 

• Week 1: Why does my grief feel different (even in support groups)? 

• Week 2: What do I want to say about my grief and what does it mean? 

• Week 3: How do I learn to live with this loss? 

• Week 4: How do I learn to connect differently with the person I lost — and with myself? 

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EXPLORING YOUR GRIEF JOURNEY (Joan Hoff)

Mondays  7-8:30 pm Eastern

• March 2, 9, 16, 23

 

Explore how far you’ve come, where you are now, and where you want to be. Each session will include a topic-based activity and discussion, as well as next steps to work on between sessions.

• Week 1: How you got here  - your losses (both primary and secondary) and how they impact your grief today. 

• Week 2: What challenges you’re facing currently, what’s helpful to your healing and what’s holding you back; what you’re carrying and what you can let go of. 

• Week 3: Developing goals and next steps. 

• Week 4: Where do you want to be: looking at your future and how you want it to look.

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MOVING YOUR GRIEF INTO ACTION (Marianne Reid Schrom)

Tuesdays 6-7:30 pm Eastern

• March 3, 10, 24, 31​

 

Surviving a suicide loss changes us — how we see the world, how we move through our days, and what we feel called to protect, honor, or change. This workshop is designed for suicide loss survivors who feel a quiet stirring — a desire for meaning, direction, grounding, or purpose after loss. Together, we’ll explore how grief can bring clarity to what matters and gently open pathways for meaningful action — within yourself, your relationships, and the wider community. 

• Week 1: Mapping your grief 

• Week 2: Values, voice, and the work your grief is calling you towards

• Week 3: Turning meaning into momentum

• Week 4: Carrying their light forward 

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PARENTING GRIEVING CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND TEENS (Joan Hoff)

Mondays 7-8:30 pm Eastern

• April 6, 13, 20, 27  ​

 

An exploration of how children, adolescents, and teens grieve a suicide death, how it looks different from yours, what they need, and how to support them on their journey while you too are grieving. 

• Week 1: How children, adolescents, and teens grieve and how it looks different from adults’ grief

• Week 2: Developmental issues and common behaviors you might see at different ages

• Week 3:  What grieving kids need: how to best support their grief, and the importance of play and storytelling

• Week 4: Remembering, rituals, and special days

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SUICIDE 101  (Joanne Harpel)

Tuesdays 4:15-5:45 pm Eastern

• February 24

• March 3, 10, 17

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A straightforward, practical exploration of we do (and don’t) know from research and lived experience about what causes suicide. Together, we’ll look at:

• What we know (or think we know) about what causes suicide

• The traditional mental illness framework for understanding suicide

• The newer “Suicide Crisis Syndrome” framework for understanding suicide

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WHO AM I NOW? IDENTITY, GRIEF, AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF LOSS (Steven Karaiskos)

Thursdays 6:30-8 pm Eastern

• February 19, 26

• March 5, 12

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Rooted in community, story, and self-discovery, participants will explore how loss reshapes who we are, and what it means to carry both sorrow and growth. Rather than rushing toward resolution, this series offers space to pause and reflect on how loss reshapes who we are and how we continue becoming in its aftermath. 

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• Week 1: Standing in the after of loss

• Week 2: The stories loss leaves us with

• Week 3: Becoming, not replacing, after loss

• Week 4: Living forward with loss integrated

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​Deep Dive workshops are designed to be interactive, and we strongly encourage you to attend in real-time, if at all possible. Recordings will be provided to registrants at the conclusion of the four-session workshop series.

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The registration fee for each 4-week workshop is $175.​​​

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ABOUT THE FACULTY

The faculty are all members of Coping After Suicide’s national support group facilitator corps. For more information, visit https://www.copingaftersuicide.com/support-groups

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Jaletta Albright Desmond (hopeafterws@gmail.com)

After losing her 17-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, to suicide in 2012, Jaletta became a certified Grief Educator and Certified Grief Support Specialist, trained by University of Wisconsin-Madison Continuing Studies. She’s trained as a support group facilitator through both the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and NAMI, and has facilitated both virtual and in-person groups, including for Friends for Survival and David Kessler’s grief.com online support program. As a QPR Gatekeeper Trainer, she’s trained hundreds of high school students and adults in suicide prevention.  

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Joan Hoff   (joanshoff2020@gmail.com)

Joan spent over 30 years working with The Dougy National Center for Grieving Children and Families providing support for adults, children, teens, and families who have experienced a suicide loss. She has extensive support group facilitation experience and has trained support group facilitators nationally and internationally, including with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Her husband Larry died of suicide in 1995.

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Joanne L. Harpel (joanneharpel@icloud.com)

President of Coping After Suicide, is an international authority on suicide bereavement and postvention response, and the former longtime Senior Director for Public Affairs and Postvention for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the largest suicide prevention organization in the world. She works with individuals, families, and communities nationwide. Joanne lost her younger brother Stephen to suicide in 1993.

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Steven Karaiskos (stevenjkaraiskos@gmail.com)

A Social Emotional Learning expert with extensive experience facilitating peer support groups based on principles derived from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Steven is the Founder of Elpis Consulting, Coaching, & Community Building; Director of Postvention & Community Programs at The Kita Center, a restorative community honoring the lived experience of those impacted by suicide; and the former Senior Director of Community Education and Outreach for Samaritans, a Boston-based suicide prevention and grief support organization. He lost his partner David to suicide in 2009.​

 

Marianne Reid Schrom  (mar.schrom@gmail.com)

The survivor of her brother John's 2007 suicide, Marianne has extensive experience as a suicide bereavement support group facilitator and educator, including for the New York State Funeral Directors Association, the New York State Tribute Foundation, and LivingWorks. She is a former member of the national Loss and Bereavement Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Early in her career, Marianne was a high school teacher for a decade, during which time she lost more than one student to suicide. ​​​​​​