GRIEF AND FORGIVENESS:  Learn how to forgive yourself, family, friends, caregivers and your deceased loved one.  Honor your wounded feelings, disappointments, or unmet expectations, and discuss coping strategies.  Give yourself the gift of forgiveness.

DIFFERENT WAYS WE GRIEVE:  Learn how men and women grieve differently and explore our cultural diversity.  Discuss how a sudden death differs from an expected death.  Recognize that understanding and communicating help us to embrace our differences.

GRIEF: GETTING STUCK AND UNSTUCK:  Learn how holidays, special days and unique circumstances can trigger complicated grieving.  Discuss healthy ways to reconcile the loss, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that cause us to get stuck.

GRIEF AND GUILT:  Learn the difference between real and imagined guilt. Discuss guilt in relationship to illness, responsibility and suicide.  Explore ways to deal with the "If only's…" and the "What if's…"  and to accept the reality of the situation.

EXPRESSING GRIEF:  Learn the difference between grief and mourning.  Give yourself and others  permission to cry.  Share your story through storytelling, drawing, journaling, music, dreams, poetry, songs and candle lighting.

HOW DO WE GRIEVE AND GO ON?  Learn the value of grief work, individual rituals and support groups.  Examine healthy and unhealthy messages that you receive from loved ones, co-workers, friends, and our society.