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When you're faced with someone who is deep in grief, you can feel unsure of what to do or say, or how best to offer support. But with the right tools and guidance, it's possible to make a real difference. At Grief Guides, we empower individuals, communities and workplaces to provide compassionate, effective grief support. Whether your role involves interacting with the bereaved on a regular basis, or you want to contribute towards a more grief-informed culture in your organisation, we’re here to guide you how to provide support during life’s most challenging moments.

Three elements make up the Grief Guides concept: engaging live training sessions, expertly crafted self-learning content and resources, and our innovative paper-based Grief Map. Watch this introduction to Grief Guides, from co-founder Martin Roddis, then get in touch for a chat about how Grief Guides could work with your organisation. Book a meeting with Calendly. Or contact Martin on: 07593 790399 / martin@elephantsinrooms.co.uk

Become A Grief Guide with Grief Maps

Each Grief Map comes with a foundational self-learning module, preparing you in depth to understand and know how to use the Map. Once completed you can register for the 90-minute trainer led sessions, which will be held frequently throughout the month on Teams. This is where we will deepen your self-learning and build upon that foundational knowledge. The course resources will be constantly updated and evolve to meet our clients needs.

Our intention is for this to be a process of learning and building your understanding and skillset, rather than a one-off training session. Grief is never 'one and done', neither are we. Using this modular approach will ensure that information integrity is maintained for every course, keeping the delivery high quality, and the knowledge contemporary and relevant.

Grief Guides is an innovative, affordable and scaleable solution

Due to the flexible modular components of Grief Guides, we are able to ripple the knowledge and skills right to the edge of your workplace and deep into the community.

The map is a tool to build upon, refer to and use as a guide throughout your supportive conversations, giving you confidence and insights to share.

The self-learning modules will continually grow and evolve, remaining accessible and contemporary. 

The trainer-led sessions will be conducted at flexible times, to meet your needs and schedule, providing an opportunity to deepen the learning, connect and ask questions.

This compliments, rather than competes with, existing support structures

The ability to empower people on the frontline of your organisation means that the knowledge is not limited to a few core people, it is equally distributed.

This means that support, if offered in a timely and empathic way, by someone you know will make an incredible difference to the healing process.

Your clients, service users and customers will all benefit from a grief aware workforce.



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As experienced grief educators, we have seen firsthand the challenges that can become barriers in existing training solutions. As we've built our training system, we've factored in ways of addressing these challenges, as explained below. 

Generate Revenue For Your Organisation By Offering Grief Guides Training

We've built our business model with collaboration in mind, creating opportunities for organisations to partner with us and expand access to grief education. With our experience of working & volunteering in the charity sector, we've developed an affiliate programme designed to help you generate revenue - supporting volunteer training costs and keeping your core services running.

As an affiliate, you'll have access to the Grief Guides system to train your team or volunteers, and you can also offer a comprehensive grief education course to clients and service users. If you're looking to raise funds by providing grief training in your local community or through partnerships with local businesses, we offer both branded and non-branded options to suit your needs. 

Suitable for each organisation's needs

Our initial grief map has been designed to be both comprehensive and suitable for most needs, but there are some industries and charities that will require a slightly different, enhanced focus. In collaboration we are developing a range of maps to meet these needs. If you would like to discuss how this works, please call Martin.

Delivered sensitively, keeping trainees psychologically safe.

Topics surrounding death, grief & loss can be challenging to talk about, but we have experience in how to create a safe training environment where learners can thrive, whether that is in our live sessions, or in the self-learning content and the community that will develop there.

Relatable and transferable knowledge.

The insights you will get in this training will be helpful across your life, from work to community to family. Grief is a part of the human condition, but when we learn how to adapt and grow around our grief, the less life complications we encounter. 
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Meet the Creators

Grief Guides is the brainchild of Martin Roddis and Trudie Bamford, freelance grief trainers, therapists, podcasters and best friends. Listen in as they talk about the Grief Guides creation story, and the details of this innovative project.

To find out more about Martin & Trudie, click here.

What do our students say...

It was an amazing session with so much thought-provoking information. It has certainly given me a deeper understanding of grief. You are both very inspiring and your knowledge exceptional… to have that practical information and guidance was amazing.
Adult Social Care & Health Team, Derbyshire County Council
Thank you for these two sessions, they were so informative, and something I am sure we will all be using in our client work going forwards. Trudie’s delivery was first class, I am a qualified counsellor, but I learnt so much. The content was very thought provoking.
Pathway Counselling Service
The session really was fantastic, I wasn’t too sure what to expect and I’m so happy I decided to join, it was really helpful and thought provoking and fantastically delivered. It’s always so valuable and appreciated learning from someone so knowledgeable and with lived experience.
Community Team, St. Luke’s Hospice

Take a tour of the innovative Grief Map


In this video, you'll get to see what's inside the Grief Map, and how the content has been designed for maximum impact in a pocket-sized resource that can be carried everywhere.
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Standalone Self-learn Modules

Some of these modules are included in the Grief Guide bundle, but they can also be purchased individually. They include self-care, communication skills, and other focused subjects. As we bring new modules online, they will appear here.

We are also able to collaborate with your organisation to create modules to meet your organisation's particular needs.

Live Trainer-Led Classroom Sessions

Join one of our live trainer-led sessions, to deepen the knowledge you will gain from the self-learning modules. Our classroom size is limited, to allow interaction and sensitive management of the subject matter. 

We can also able to collaborate with your organisation to create sessions to meet your unique needs.

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