Family/Community Rituals & Workplace Support

Responding to Heartbreaking Loss

Witnessing loss in a family, community or workplace setting can feel very destabilizing. The pressure to carry on as business-as-usual can feel difficult or nearly impossible to sustain. While avoiding grief might offer temporary relief for some, many of us may experience its fallout later. I have over a decade's experience in offering grief support to families, communities, and workplace settings. Having a seasoned facilitator to help you in these unmooring times can be such a blessing. As a facilitator I will offer a ritual welcoming of all spiritual beliefs and hold space to process and make meaning of the loss for yourself and as a community. My hope that in our time together you will access more ground beneath your feet again, especially in the wake of immediate loss.

Offerings:

  • Provide culturally sensitive, non-denominational grief rituals for families and communities to process grief together and feel supported

  • Group facilitation to process and make meaning in the immediate aftermath of loss

  • Provide tools and activities for participants to connect with their own grief

  • Provide psychoeducation and additional resources for grief support

Who I serve (in-person and virtual):

  • Private grief rituals for families over loss of a family member, close friend, or beloved pet

  • Private grief rituals for groups of friends

  • Private rituals for communities

  • Traumatic loss and grief psychoeducation

  • Grief and traumatic loss processing and meaning making for workplace settings

  • Traumatic loss processing for participants in residential treatment programs

Curious if this is a good fit for you and your community? Please give me a call or text at (650) 762-9220 or email me amyhyunswart@gmail.com to schedule a complimentary 15-min consultation.

“Amy is a gifted space holder–tender, caring, warm, kind, and grounded–who knows how to create a safe container so that participants can explore their grief in a loving community she helps create.”

— Phoenix Song, Performer, Teacher and Healer

Grief Medicine Participant Testimonials.

  • Grateful for the love and sweat Amy and Naila put into this project. Absolutely loved the art time followed by discussion. I liked zoning out and feeling like I came into myself midway through art time as I am focused on the colors and less whatever was occupying my mind before 530p. Truly a transformational experience that I did not even know I needed.

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2023

  • Amy is a delightful group leader that helped me get through some old tough feelings of mourning. I highly recommend this class and and I wish it were longer!

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2023

  • “The Grief Medicine course was the nourishment my soul craved after the loss of my parent. Being in community with others who understood loss from the inside gave me a place to explore ways to embrace my grief process in service of my own healing. Amy created a connected and loving online space filled with art and rich resources I can take with me and use in the future”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2023

  • “More than anything else, this course taught me how to connect with people again and how strangers can offer one another support during their most trying times.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Spring 2021

  • I thought I was very familiar with grief because I have experienced so much personal loss in my lifetime. I did not realize how little I actually knew about it until taking this course. Amy was a most compassionate and kind facilitator who guided us through our different forms of grief in a way where I felt held and cared for. I appreciated the expressive arts activities and writing prompts that she shared in the course, and the sacred space of connecting and sharing.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2021

  • “I felt completely supported by Amy and by the other participants in this journey. I loved the art activities, which gave me a channel for expressing some of the feelings I would not have found words for. The group was a safe space for finding my way through grief, and I am grateful for it.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Winter 2021

  • “Thank you, Amy, for providing a safe space & facilitating an amazing 6 weeks. Thursdays were the highlight of my week knowing I'd get to see everyone. I truly didn't expect to feel SO supported & safe in a virtual environment.”

    Grief Medicine Participant, Fall 2020

“Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through acknowledgement, validation and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing.”

— Sobonfu Somé