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GRIEF & RESILIENCE EXPERT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Grief and Resilience Expert Certification Program with Blair Kaplan Venables, Award Winning Grief & Resilience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of The Global Resilience Project Hybrid Training Program focusing on The Navigating Grief Framework | Starting January 6, 2026

Step into the transformative work of grief and resilience with Blair Kaplan Venables in this immersive 3-week, hybrid certification program with six live classes, guest experts and audio lessons. Built around Blair’s Navigating Grief Framework, this training combines personal mastery with professional application, equipping you to navigate grief in your own life while developing the skills to guide others through loss.

Through a blend of live online sessions, self-paced learning, and guided practice, you will:

  • Explore grief through a compassionate, trauma-informed lens
  • Learn how to strengthen the “resilience muscle” using neuroscience-based tools
  • Gain a deeper understanding of how grief intersects with identity, relationships, and purpose
  • Develop practical strategies to support clients, students, patients or community members navigating loss
  • Engage with a global network of peers and experts in grief, resilience, and healing

"The Navigating Grief Framework is a truly groundbreaking approach to grief that resonates deeply with the kind of integrative, human-centered work I believe in. For high performers who are used to structure, purpose, and momentum, grief can feel like emotional quicksand, unpredictable, overwhelming, and impossible to organize. This model doesn’t try to 'fix' grief or rush you through it; instead, it acknowledges the reality that healing is nonlinear, and offers a flexible, yet structured path that meets people where they are. What I especially appreciate is how it creates permission: to slow down, to feel, to reflect, and to reconnect, without losing who you are. From the grounding practices that stabilize the nervous system to the resilience rituals that help process big emotions, every piece of the framework is both practical and deeply human. It normalizes grief in high-functioning environments, making it feel not just accessible but safe, a crucial shift for those who often grieve in silence. This framework empowers humans to integrate their grief into their identity without shame and ultimately to discover new meaning with clarity and strength. Highly recommend."

Dr. Heather L. Taylor, PsyD, Psychologist, MHP, CMHS

Who is this training for?

This program is designed for mental health professionals, coaches, educators, healthcare providers, and individuals with lived experience of grief who want to integrate evidence-based, heart-centered strategies into their work or personal lives.

By the end of the program, you will have both personal mastery of the Navigating Grief Framework and the confidence to apply it professionally in your practice.

You’ll also receive:

  • A Certificate of Completion and a personalized Letter of Recommendation from Blair
  • Professional Directory Listing in The Global Resilience Project community
  • Downloadable tools and exercises to use in practice
  • One private 1:1 call with Blair to personalize your learning and professional integration
  • TGRP Community Legacy Membership for ongoing support and networking

Program Includes

  • 3 weeks of live online group training with Blair Kaplan Venables (90-minute weekly sessions)
  • Guest Expert Masterclasses with:
    1. Gina Moffa – Grief and Trauma Psychotherapist and Author of Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go
    2. Stephanie Sarazin – Ambiguous Grief Expert and Ambiguous Grief Expert 
    3. Renata De Melo – Third-generation Medicine Woman
    4. Alana Kaplan – Mental Health Director for The Global Resilience Project, Social Worker and Grief Therapist
  • Self-paced learning modules and reflection exercises
  • Access to all recordings for lifetime review
  • Downloadable resources for personal and client use
  • Private TGRP community access for peer and mentor support
 
JANUARY 2026 DATES: January 6, 8, 13, 15, 20 and 22 from 4pm – 5:30pm PT (7pm – 8:30pm ET)

Certification & Recognition

Graduates will receive:

  • Certificate of Completion
  • Personalized Letter of Recommendation from Blair Kaplan Venables
  • Listing in The Global Resilience Project Professional Directory
  • TGRP Community Membership (lifetime memebrship)

Who Should Join

  • Mental health professionals seeking to integrate grief and resilience support into their practice
  • Coaches, educators, healthcare providers who want to skillfully navigate conversations about loss
  • Individuals with lived experience of grief who want to deepen their personal healing while gaining professional tools
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Navigating Grief Framework

ABOUT BLAIR:

Blair Kaplan Venables is a British Columbia-based grief and resilience expert and coach, motivational speaker and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project. Her expertise has been featured in media outlets, including Psychology Today, Forbes, TEDx, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world. ‘MyStory,’ which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play, showcases Blair’s life story. She is the cohost of the RESILIENT A.F. with Blair and Alana podcast, specializing in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods. She also guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework. The Global Resilience Project’s award-winning book series are international bestsellers, and her fourth book, RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience Vol 2, was published in January 2025. In her free time, you can find Blair writing in nature, travelling the world and helping people to strengthen their resilience muscles.

Program Outline

LESSON 1
Foundations of Grief and Resilience
  • Redefining resilience: “Bouncing Forward” vs. “Bouncing Back”
  • What is a “resilience muscle?”
  • The science of the resilience muscle and neuroplasticity
  • Understanding the Navigating Grief Framework
  • Personal reflection: locating yourself in the grief–resilience continuum
LESSON 2
G: Grounding in the Present
  • Mindfulness and nervous system regulation for grief
  • The role of routine in restoring stability
  • Daily gratitude practice: neuroscience and application
  • Practical grounding tools for yourself and those you serve
LESSON 3
R: Resilience Muscle Rituals & Routines
  • Emotional acknowledgment and expression techniques
  • Creating safe spaces for grief processing
  • Integrating movement, nature, and creativity into resilience-building
LESSON 4
I & E: Introspection for Understanding and Engagement with Support Systems
  • Reflecting on loss and reconnecting with personal values
  • The role of meaning-making in healing
  • Building and sustaining support systems
  • The therapeutic power of helping others
LESSON 5
F: Forward Movement
  • Setting realistic, compassionate goals for moving forward
  • Adapting to the “new normal” while honoring loss
  • Discovering new passions, activities, and ways of living
LESSON 6
Integration, Practice, and Professional Application
  • Applying the Navigating Grief Framework in client, student, and healthcare settings
  • Ethics and boundaries in grief support work
  • Practicum: case study review and peer feedback
  • Creating your personal and professional resilience toolkit
  • Final Q&A and certification celebration
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What Blair has created through this training is truly transformative. For grievers—and those who support them—much of what we’ve intuitively known has now been alchemized into practical, actionable insight. This training turns the instinctive ways we channel pain into purpose into scientifically backed lessons, thoughtful conversations, and interactive building blocks, equipping us to approach grief and loss with greater knowledge, clarity, and cohesion. As someone who runs a publication focused on grief and loss, as well as a secondary educator working with students who face adversity and trauma, I am deeply grateful to have learned from her diverse array of experts and to have absorbed her thoughtful framework—a framework I will continue to utilize for years to come.
Kera SanchezEditor-In-Chief of Get Griefy Magazine
A passionate deep rooted business built on hardships, tears and joy. Blair has made this experience so revealing and so understanding. The person I was when I first started these classes to the woman I am now. The little flower has learned to bloom with the help of the framework. This framework has helped me vision of a future business I want to create. Hence why I love the name, global resilience because it is global we just need to take the time to find our resilience. For the last six weeks I have felt truly inspired every class we have had. My favorite part was the breathing exercises every class. Life rushes us to fast sometimes, and we often forget to breathe and be present. This class has truly taught me to be present in the moment and that it’s okay that we have fast days but to remember to slow down. Because healing isn’t a quick journey. Sometimes healing is something we do for the rest of our lives
Lindsey WilsonGrief Expert
This course is more than education — it’s a movement toward healing with authenticity and heart. The Global Resilience Project and Blair have created a space where resilience isn’t a concept, but a lived, shared experience. As an Occupational Therapist, I deeply value the compassion, community, and purpose this program embodies.
Jaclynn NontellOccupational Therapist
Thank you so much for this course; it was very insightful and self-reflective of my own process. There is so much help that is needed in this world. Thank you for allowing me to have this experience. I am truly thankful for this simple yet wildly effective framework. I admire your resilience in continuing to be our guide as you navigated your own grief. It speaks volumes to your resilience that no matter what life throws at you, to show up with purpose and dignity.
Dr. Parul Dua MakkarDentist, Author, Advocate & Grief Coach
Blair’s Grief and Resilience Training was top-notch! Between the knowledge she shared with us on implementing and integrating the grief and resilience framework into our lives, and the fabulous guest speakers she brought on board, it was chock-full of valuable information. Blair also has a wonderful way of sharing her personal experience with grief and resilience and weaving that into the training, which really brings the concepts to life.
Anne Crook
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