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Become A Grief Coach
I know you found this page for a reason, and am thrilled you're here.
You're probably wondering, "Why is grief coaching different?" "Am I qualified to do this?" and "What is the process to get certified?"
My former students and I will answer all your questions below. But first, please know that there is no prerequisite for learning to help others. I am not a special unicorn. If I can do this life-changing and important work, you can too!
You're meant to be here, even if you feel a little unsure about it. Please know, it’s normal to feel uncertain about something new.
Remember, your desire to make a difference in the world is your most important characteristic that qualifies you for this work.
I promise, you'll be so glad you invested in yourself to be prepared to support others in their most difficult challenges.
If you’re highly compassionate and you want help starting helping the world's hurts while working from home, this will change the game for you your loved ones, one client at a time.
The HOPE Grief Coach
Certification & Training Program
REGISTRATION ENDS May 5, 2025!!
ENROLL NOW TO SAVE $1,000 *
* Early bird pricing ends 1 week prior to registration close. Check out before April 28, 2025 to get $1,000 off. Payment plans available.
Meet Your Coach
Julie is first and foremost a mother to her 6 children, including 2 angels and 11 grandchildren, and wife to her husband, Ron.
In 2007 on Mother's Day, after the loss of her two youngest children in a car accident, her life changed forever.
In her book, Miracles in the Darkness, Julie talks about how coming back from devastating loss was the great blessing of her life.
She began sharing her experiences with a few people, then more. As a keynote speaker, her audience grew until she decided to dedicate her life to helping people grow through grief.
In 2017, Julie became a certified international grief coach and the founder of Build a Life After Loss and the H.O.P.E. Grief Coach Training.
As a grief coach, she helps those who are experiencing grief to move through their painful thoughts and emotions associated with grief to find peace and hope.
Extensive study and education led to the development of The HOPE Model of Healing and The 5 Foundations of Growth - a framework used to lead people gently through the grief and healing process. Julie's work is revolutionary as she has combined her powerful personal experiences of loss and healing with effective tools for comfort and support.
So, after 7+ years of perfecting this program, she's finally ready to share the process with a select few who are ready to take up the call.
Julie's mission is to bring hope to a hurting world.
Developing the Grief Coach Certification & Training Course has been invaluable in fulfilling this mission. By sharing her entire coaching model, tools & experience, Build a Life After Loss has been able to expand to change the lives of more and more people every day!
She believes in you - in your ability to grow and heal, and in your ability to help others to heal. Are you ready to join the
Grief-Informed Coaching Gets Results!
Loss is a major part of ALL of our lives.
It affects our minds, memories, bodies and energy.
This is why growing through grief can bring the most transformative and life changing results.
Yet, we know very little about how to process grief.
Through the experience of losing my brother to suicide and a painful divorce,
I learned that, time does not all wound, as the world would have me believe.
After the excruciating loss of my two youngest children,
I suffered when they told me, you'll grieve them for the rest of your life.
Grief-informed healing methods are critical for growth and lasting healing.
Current grief models DO NOT give us actionable steps to
move forward through grief (trust me - I've studied them all).
Luckily,
The HOPE Model of Healing and The 5 Foundations of Growth
DO help us grow through grief by
processing and releasing the emotions associated with our loss.
These models are not a one-size fits all, or an overnight fix.
Rather, the model is a proven framework for understanding the grief process and offering steps to grow through the pain. This is where a Grief Coach comes in handy.
As a trained Grief Professional, you can guide people through the process.
For years, I've been able to lead people effectively through grief to hope to healing.
Now you can too!
Enroll in Grief Coach Training Today
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*EARLY BIRD PRICING*
In order to incentivise early registration, we are taking $500 off current price of tuition for those who check out before May 12th! This will be automatically applied to your purchase.
NOTE: PRICES WILL INCREASE BY $500 AFTER 11:59 PM CT on May 11, 2023.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON YOUR DISCOVERY CALL
Before registering, we want to make sure we're a good fit.
On our discovery call, one of our Certified HOPE Grief Coaches from a previous session will answer your questions, share their experience and send you registration details.
There are NO pushy sales people, and absolutely NO pressure!
A Life-Saving Work
As a Certified Grief Coach, you will become a POWERFUL influence for good in the lives of those you love and those you coach, as well as their family, community and posterity.
Don't take my word for it...Here are what a few of my coaching clients have said about my program:
“Julie has helped me learn about grief and has given me tools to reframe my terrible experience, which has allowed me to truly have HOPE for the future. I never thought it was possible. She has helped me rebuild confidence, love for myself and others, and patience when it gets hard. Her support, guidance and gentle leading in the work I needed to do, has changed everything.” -Kristy
“Julie is absolutely great to work with! Her grief program was gentle while also helping me move forward in areas I was quite resistant to. She helped me clarify what was going on inside me and she helped me achieve big goals through small, achievable steps. I am so grateful for the time I got to spend with her.” - Angela
“You changed my life.” - K. D.
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Imagine helping a client heal who has been mired in grief for years.
What would it be like, after a few days of using the framework, to
see a powerful, hopeful shift in a client’s mindset and life?
What is that change WORTH to you as a coach?
It is invaluable. And yet, that is what we're offering.
I'm giving away my secrets, my experience, and my framework so that your clients can experience these changes firsthand, too.
Your Training Includes
Course begins May 12, 2025. During the course of 9 weeks, receive valuable, hands-on training in an online small group setting each Monday evening at 7:00 pm CT.
Your training includes:
- Training on The HOPE Model of Healing
- Training on The 5 Foundations of Growth
- Training in the coaching skills and tools specific to grief
- Recording of 9 training Q&A calls for 1 year
- Lifetime access to video training modules
- Build A Life After Loss- Client Manual (100 page document)
- Emotion Cards to learn how to use in your practice
- Rights to use Frameworks as outlined in the program
Our Goal
Over the course of 9 weeks, our goal of this training is for you to become comfortable, confident, and effective in supporting a client in their grief and assisting them in incremental steps and shifts.
As a result, your clients may enjoy:
- Your skilled support
- Greater confidence in themselves and their ability to navigate their painful feelings
- Increased hope in the future because of the tools and understanding they’ve gained
- Ability to release the pain of the past
- Improved relationships
- Expanded personal power
- Greater capacity to live with intention and joy
- Increased compassion for themselves and others
WHAT'S NEW THIS SEMESTER
Classes are on Monday NIGHTS this semester.
Starting on May 12, 2025 training will take place every Monday @ 7:00 pm CT for 9 consecutive weeks.
Note: The calls are also recorded and sent out, if you have an emergency and have to miss one, you'll be able to watch the recording.
What's The Process To Get Certified?
The process is SIMPLE!
Book a call
Complete payment
Fill out application
You're in! (Check your email for confirmation!)
The first training call start on May 12, 2025.
Training will last 9 weeks.
Register for our Monday evening class!
After completing the training, you'll be a fully Trained & Certified H.O.P.E. Grief Coach.
You'll receive a certificate of completion and a certification badge to use on your website/resume.
don't just take our word for it
happy students have said,
"I absolutely LOVED this Module! I really connected with so much of it.
Really helpful insight in communicating with someone & navigating sensitive issues.
I feel the Restorative Self Care is the important work that is helped when not going at it alone. This is where I can really see the gentle, loving compassion needed to help someone move through the process of healing.
I found the discussion on when to step out of a particular "role" helpful as in when you feel resistance, being a clue, to go back to the supportive role. Knowing how to navigate that really stuck with me.
SO many gems here! I get excited and encouraged learning about the power of setting Intentions and following through! It's something TO DO and it feels good, even if minuscule progress is made. I also love Rediscovering Joy and incorporating the CHOICE of paying attention and creating more of the things we enjoy into our lives instead of "trudging along" ... such a wonderful reminder to focus on!!"
- Kristy
"Going through the grief training was a profound experience for me.I learned so many things that were brand new to me and that helped me understand grief on a much deeper level. I loved that we learned tools to help create hope and to move through the pain, not just avoid it or stuff it.
As we were trained we worked through the program ourselves. My personal experience with the program was emotional, tender, and brought me more peace than words can express. I love that now I have tools to empower my clients to make step by step progress and find joy again.
As a coach Julie is intuitive, gentle and kind. She is so knowledgeable and answered our questions with wisdom and grace. I trust her implicitly.
If you are considering taking this training, don't hesitate! So many people need what she offers and she teaches it in a way that feels doable for anyone. I will forever be grateful for the things I have learned from this program and I can't wait to share it with others so they can grow and heal too"
- Julie H.
Energy Coach at Life Balance
"You are so good at defining grief and helping us separate out all of our experiences so that it isn’t a tangled bundle of everything. I appreciate the sample coaching appointment…I can see how this will impact a client’s outlook. "
- Pamela
"Wow! This was eye opening. It helped me understand some of the things that I am going through.
I am so excited to be doing this program and to help others.
I like the idea of the hope model with the 5 foundations of growth. Going through these steps has helped me grow. It gives me hope and has taught me to look forward.
This was very eye opening. I can relate to a lot of what you said. We are always learning how to survive in this world. This module has shown me why I do some of the things I do. I understand more why I look at things the way I do.
I liked learning about the different ways of saying things so the client doesn't get defensive and they still feel important in the conversation. This class is teaching me to look at things differently in a positive way."
- Kathy
"Julie had been my grief coach for many months. The experience changed my life!
During each step of the healing process, I felt a deep passion to help other people to see the same kind of relief I was feeling. But didn't have the confidence, skills or tools to do it effectively.
When I heard about her grief coach training, it was a no brainer! I think what excited me most is that I didn't need anything except a passion for helping people. Julie did the rest. She had all of the tools, systems, workbooks and materials.
I decided to just take the leap and starting her grief coach training. It was nice to go through a group program with other people.
We had great discussions and working through each chapter together. I couldn't believe how much value Julie gave us at each training. She offered so much information beyond what's in her workbook - teaching principles that weren't directly in the book but would help with coaching our clients.
I just got my certification badge today! I'm really excited that I can help other people in their grief journey. My confidence has grown, and my skills, and knowledge. So now, I get to guide and coach people through the system Julie built - the same one that changed my life"
- Sandy Falter
Certified Grief Coach at Sand To Glass Coaching
Are You A Good Fit?
Learners of all types come to our program to learn to more effectively help and support others.
Are you...
• A coach looking to add grief-informed healing to your practice?
• A grief coach looking for more tools and support?
• A friend or family member of someone who is grieving?
• A helping professional looking for additional tools and education specifically about grief?
If so, then this training is for you!
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