An online intensive with Daniela Hess & Jacob
Because no one taught you how to grieve.
Learn the foundational tools and practices to be with your grief — in a conscious, healthy way.
An invitation
The pain of grief is inevitable. The unnecessary suffering can be optional.
Grief is a universal experience, touching each of us at some point in our lives — yet many of us struggle to navigate this profound emotion. When we don't know how to grieve, we typically reach for whatever numbs: we isolate, over-eat, seek highs, become sedentary, or distract ourselves in countless ways. These unconscious patterns become habits, and the habits become a cycle of pain and avoidance. But what if there were a way to break free?
In the Grief Course we guide you through an intentional process, bringing knowledge, tools, guidance and support to move through your own journey of grief. Grief is rocky, mysterious terrain — these are waters you really want to cross with a skillful, trustworthy guide.
Grief isn't something we strive to "heal" from — that's one of the myths we'll help you set down. Grief is about honouring, integrating, and ultimately living your aliveness.
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Daniela & Jacob introduce the Grief Course — one minute.
Where there is change, there is grief. The Grief Course
The path
A reliable four-step process
Four sessions that move from understanding, through the mind's quiet objections, into the body and the voice, and finally into your own integration.
- I
Understanding
Grief as a process rather than an isolated feeling. Together we debunk the myths and misconceptions — because allowing the process begins with understanding what grief is, and what it is not.
- II
Meeting the mind
Meeting the beliefs and emotions wrapped around the loss. Guilt and regret can single-handedly stop the natural flow of grief — truly acknowledging these thoughts and feelings is the key to getting it flowing again.
- III
Somatic Vocal Healing
Somatic voice work connects you with your body in an accessible, reliable way. The body and the nervous system hold the keys to flowing easefully with grief — and new somatic tools give you a fresh way to express it.
- IV
Integration
Through conscious integration you are empowered to weave the new insights and practices into your life — continuing your grief journey in your own unique way, knowing it is okay to embrace and allow the process.
Who it's for
Grief comes in many forms — big "G" and small "g".
Whether you're mourning a loved one or a beloved pet, facing a divorce, the end of a friendship, a job loss, disconnection from community, or children leaving the nest — this course is for you. We teach the principles of the grief process that apply to all of it, whether life-altering or "everyday". You'll learn how to allow, attend, accept and release, and to move through the sadness and worry that grief carries.
- A loved one
- A beloved pet
- A divorce
- The end of a friendship
- A job, or a calling
- Disconnection from community
- An empty nest
- A life you imagined
Your guides & educators
Daniela Hess & Jacob Vermeulen
Daniela Hess has served as an educational and spiritual mentor to thousands of students and clients over the past 25 years. She has led many group grief courses and worked 1:1 with the bereaved, helping people around the world navigate the complex terrain of grief — a dynamic, insightful and compassionate guide who catalyses ripples of transformation across her students' lives.
Jacob Vermeulen is an international educator who has held space for thousands moving through deep inner work, blending the psychology of emotional wellbeing with spirituality. A gifted pianist and singer, he explores the healing effects of music with a special focus on the human voice. Navigating his own grief, he developed a unique somatic protocol for meeting the stuck energy of grief in the body and letting it move.
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Everything you need to begin
- 4 live sessions of 120 minutes each, to walk in your own time
- Lifetime access to all the course material
- Powerful teachings, practices and journeys to support and transform your grief
- Held by two educators in grief, death and loss, with decades of experience
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You don't have to cross these waters alone. Begin when you're ready
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