Disability Grief Gathering COHORT (8 sessions)

Inspired by the drop-in Disability Grief Gatherings that Katie started hosting in 2025, this is a longer format peer circle centred on community building, education, emotional processing, and expanding our capacities to hold both grief and ease as disabled and chronically ill folks. This is open to anyone who self-identifies as disabled or chronically ill. 

We’ll meet weekly for 8 weeks to check in, share, and expand on different aspects of the grief journey, coming to understand grief as an ever evolving rhythm that invites us deeply into ourselves and the world with care and tenderness. As disabled and chronically ill people, we hold so much innate wisdom. This expanded group setting creates a more intimate space for us to explore our threads of shared lived experience and the ways in which we are different. Each week will follow a lightly guided theme and include time and space to share what’s coming up for you in your grief landscape. All types of grief are welcome, whether or not they are related to disability. Come as you are. 


The goals of this series are to: 

  • build space and capacity within yourself to be with the hard stuff

  • receive and give support in community

  • gather some tools to “be with” grief in a way that’s safe and accessible for you

  • develop your own language of grief expression

  • be part of a community that “gets it”


Some of the themes we’ll cover throughout this program include: guided writing to self, creating personal grief rituals, the Seven Languages of Sorrow created by Stephen Garrett, making meaning of our losses, and understanding/expressing our grief as it relates to illness and disability. 

More info:

  • Each session is 90 minutes long and will include a short break. 

  • Participation is always optional. Take breaks as needed. Cameras on or off. Chat is available for participation.

  • Zoom auto captions are always enabled.

  • There will not be “homework”, but there may be some optional contemplations or creative practices to explore in between sessions if you so choose (no pressure to do this).

  • You’re invited to book Katie for 1:1 sessions throughout our time together at a reduced rate of $50 CAD/hour (regularly sliding scale $75-150 CAD).

Please consider bringing any supportive items (stims, medical and therapeutic tools, snacks, comfy clothes, etc) as well as something to write or draw with. You’ll receive more info via email a few days before the program begins. 

DISCLAIMER:

This group is run by Katie (she/her) who is a disabled grief and loss guide (certified death doula), NOT a therapist. If you need deeper therapeutic support, please seek out mental health services. 

 

Registration:

Register your spot through the calendar below.

There are three options on the sliding scale. Please use the Green Bottle Method by Alexis J. Cunningfolk to determine where you fall on the scale.

Please also read over the Group Agreements before registering.

Contribute $