Corporate Grief Workshop: What you need to know:
Loss and grief are universal experiences. They will touch all of us at some point — and they don’t pause for the working week.
A colleague dies. A team member loses a parent. A redundancy is announced. A long-running project ends abruptly. Grief doesn’t only follow bereavement — it follows endings, transitions, and the loss of identity, role, or community we didn’t expect to lose.
This 60-minute workshop, facilitated by a clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience, helps teams recognise grief’s impact in the workplace, build psychological safety, and support one another thoughtfully and professionally. It’s frequently booked at short notice after a bereavement, but is equally valuable as a proactive resource for organisations preparing for change.
What participants will learn in this Corporate Grief Workshop:
- A new lens on grief in the workplace: What grief looks like beyond the immediate loss: transitions, identity, role changes, endings.
- The impact on focus and resilience: How grief affects cognition, performance, emotional regulation and team dynamics.
- Empathy and connection tools: How leaders and peers can engage, listen and create safe spaces without having to ‘solve’ grief.
- Practical response strategies: Immediate and longer-term supports: rituals, peer check-ins, micro-practices for emotional regulation and presence.
- Embedding support culturally: Building policies, communications and managerial actions that acknowledge grief and strengthen team resilience.
The workshop is delivered with care, drawing on clinical expertise rather than scripted “what to say” templates. There is space for reflection, but no one is asked to share if they don’t want to.
Client who’ve booked this workshop:
Led by a clinical psychologist with 20 years’ experience
Sensitively designed, no scripts that fall flat
Often delivered at short notice — we understand the urgency
Workshop outcomes
After the session, participants and their organisations gain:
- A shared language for talking about grief and loss at work
- Practical tools for managers responding to a bereaved team member
- Greater confidence in opening — and holding — supportive conversations
- A clearer sense of what to do, and just as importantly, what not to do
- A foundation for any policy or cultural changes the organisation wants to put in place
When this workshop is the right fit:
- A colleague has died. This is the most common reason teams book this workshop. We understand the urgency and will work with you to schedule quickly.
- A team member has experienced bereavement and your team wants to support them well. Managers often feel out of their depth — this workshop equips them.
- You’re going through major change. Redundancies, restructure, office closures, leadership departures — these are all forms of loss, and grief shows up in the team whether it’s named or not.
- You’re building inclusive bereavement and grief policies. The workshop pairs naturally with policy work.
About your facilitator
Led by a clinical psychologist with 20 years’ experience working with grief, loss, and trauma across the NHS, charity and private mental health services. Our facilitator brings deep clinical expertise alongside the warmth and steadiness this topic demands. They have worked with organisations responding to sudden bereavement, ongoing loss, and the cumulative grief of large-scale change.
What clients say
The Grief Workshop was a really great session!! We had over 60 people attend so it was clearly a subject that people wanted to listen in to. I am positive Dr Michelle’s advice and thoughts will have really helped those on the call.
Head of Business Development | Beale & Company Solicitors LLP
We found the grief session really insightful. I know a lot of our team members will find it really helpful.
HR Manager | Buzzacott
How this workshop pairs with others
Grief rarely arrives in isolation, and it doesn’t only follow death. Teams that book this workshop often pair it with one or more of the following sensitive-topic workshops:
Resilience at Work — for teams navigating sustained change, ending, or organisational loss. Grief at work isn’t always about death; it follows restructure, redundancy, leadership change and project endings. Resilience supports teams through the ongoing endings alongside the specific bereavement work.
Pregnancy & Baby Loss in the Workplace — a specific and often underaddressed form of grief at work. Around 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, yet most workplaces have no language or policy prepared. Frequently booked alongside the Grief Workshop when an organisation wants to address loss in all its forms — and when a colleague has shared their own experience.
Suicide Awareness Workshop — for organisations affected by a suicide, or those proactively wanting to equip teams and managers to spot the signs and respond well. A natural, clinically-led pairing with the Grief Workshop when an organisation has experienced a significant or sudden loss, or is building out a complete crisis-response capability.
For acute situations (bereavement, sudden loss, suicide), we recommend running the Grief Workshop first as a contained, sensitive response — then following up with one of the workshops above to address the wider organisational picture. Tell us your context on the discovery call and we’ll suggest a sequence.
BOOK THE GRIEF WORKSHOP
For urgent enquiries, please call or book a discovery call directly — we’ll respond as quickly as we can.
Corporate Grief Workshop: FAQs
How quickly can you deliver this workshop?
Faster than most. We understand grief situations are urgent — we’ll do our best to schedule within days, not weeks. Get in touch and we’ll be honest about what’s possible.
Is this suitable to run after a colleague’s death?
Yes — this is the most common reason organisations book it. We work with you closely on the content, framing, and any specific sensitivities. The workshop is delivered with care, with no expectation that anyone shares personally if they don’t want to.
Can it be delivered for a specific team rather than the whole organisation?
Yes. We often run it for the immediate team affected, alongside or separately from a wider organisational session.
What about for managers — is there manager-specific content?
We can include or focus on manager content depending on the audience. Manager-specific extensions cover how to respond when someone is bereaved, what to say (and avoid), how to manage workload sensitively, and when to involve HR or EAP.
Is this delivered by someone qualified to handle a sensitive topic?
Yes. Our grief workshop facilitator is a clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience in grief, loss and trauma. This isn’t an HR generalist running a sensitive topic from a deck — it’s a clinical expert.
Can the workshop be tailored to our industry?
Yes. Sectors vary in how they’re affected by grief — frontline and healthcare teams encounter cumulative loss; professional services often face the loss of long-tenured colleagues; tech and finance teams frequently navigate sudden departures during restructure. We tailor accordingly.
What does it cost?
Tailored pricing based on duration, format and any urgent-delivery requirements. Book a discovery call and we’ll send a quote within 24 hours for time-sensitive situations.
Clients also book
Pregnancy & Baby Loss in the Workplace
AUDIENCE: Specific bereavement · Inclusive family policies · Manager training
A specific and often underaddressed form of grief. Around 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, yet most workplaces have no language or policy prepared. Frequently booked alongside the Grief Workshop when an organisation wants to address loss in all its forms — and when a colleague has shared their own experience.
Suicide Awareness Workshop
AUDIENCE: Crisis response · Sensitive conversations · Manager training
For organisations affected by a suicide, or those proactively wanting to equip teams and managers to spot the signs and respond well. A natural clinically-led pairing with the Grief Workshop when an organisation has experienced a significant or sudden loss.
Resilience at Work
AUDIENCE: Teams navigating change · Endings & transitions · Leadership
Grief at work isn’t always about death — it follows restructure, redundancy, leadership change, project endings. Resilience supports teams through the ongoing endings, alongside the specific bereavement work.