Grief is unique. Grief training should be too.
At Elephants In Rooms, we educate individuals, workplaces, organisations and communities on how 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 and support you.
Our approach is individual and adaptable: we listen to what you need, and tailor a training solution to fit. And if you’re not sure what you need, we can work with that too, consulting with you to assess the best way to achieve the goals you have in mind.
Our self-learning system allows us to scale delivery, maintain focus and quality, innovate and support, all within a budget. It’s an ideal system to cascade knowledge throughout all levels of your organisation. Self-paced learning provides flexibility around commitments.
During trainer led sessions we “real-play” the skills, consolidating your learning, and building confidence for facing real world conversations. Peer-to-peer and trainer support is available in a closed, secure online forum, accessible both during training, and post-training, so you can continue to connect and learn.
If you are a customer service focused organisation, we can train your staff to be grief aware when dealing with customers.
If you are a voluntary organisation, we can help you build a grief-informed volunteer team.
If you are an institution that attends to groups with complex needs, such as those in the judiciary system, the homeless, or those dealing with substance misuse issues, we can educate your staff on how to identify grief triggered behaviour, and equip them to provide safer specialised support
If you are a corporation with many employees, who want to improve human resource policies, increase employee retention, decrease absenteeism, and raise productivity, we can help you create a grief awareness audit, and tailor a training programme that will be most effective for your goals and needs.
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.
We offer a range of innovative training options
Find out more about the training team here and read some of our student feedback here
Grief Guides
April 2025 sees the launch of Grief Guides, a truly unique approach to grief education. Three elements make up the Grief Guides solution: engaging live training sessions, expertly crafted self-learning content and resources, and our innovative paper-based Grief Map.
Innovative Scalable Training
Due to the flexible modular components of our online self-learning system, we can ripple the knowledge and skills right to the edge of your workplace in a way that is affordable and effective. Our approach is personal, and so are the services we offer.
Live Training Events
We create and deliver sessions (in-person or virtual) on topics around grief, loss, suicide prevention, and trauma. These are not death by Powerpoint presentations – they are lively, engaging, and warm, delivered sensitively by our experienced trainers.