Welcome to The Grief Center of Vermont,
where we hold endings and changes together.

The Grief Center of Vermont is a community-based grief center in Essex Junction offering grief support groups, retreats, education, and end-of-life doula services for people navigating death, loss, and major life transitions throughout Vermont.

This is a place of refuge and belonging. You do not have to carry the weight of life and death alone.

Support Circles
DEAD LETTER PROJECT
GRIEF & DEATH DOULA SERVICES
RETREATS
The first word of this poem could be any number of things. Grief is obviously a good contender. Autumn is settling in here in Vermont, another good reason to learn to make any kind of fire. With love, Jess #grief #poetry #vermont #fire #warmthinth
The first word of this poem could be any number of things. Grief is obviously a good contender. Autumn is settling in here in Vermont, another good reason to learn to make any kind of fire. With love, Jess #grief #poetry #vermont #fire #warmthinthecold
Listen. #poetry #circles #truthmandala #griefwork #thegriefcenterofvermont
Listen. #poetry #circles #truthmandala #griefwork #thegriefcenterofvermont
Who shall I say is calling? We are. Announcing your place at The Grief Center of Vermont in a wide range of forms (or gaggles) of your choosing and needs. We welcome all compassionate people and all forms of grief, loss, and change. This is a communi
Who shall I say is calling? We are. Announcing your place at The Grief Center of Vermont in a wide range of forms (or gaggles) of your choosing and needs. We welcome all compassionate people and all forms of grief, loss, and change. This is a community-based, easily accessible place of refuge and retreat. You do not have to carry the weight of grief and death alone. #grief #thegriefcenterofvermont #autumn #vermont #youdonthavetoletgobecauseleavesdo
Finally, some worthwhile vision and progress! We work in our own ebbs and flows over here. The Grief Center site is seeing some much needed attention with registration pages finally looking worthy of you incredible creatures out there clicking throug
Finally, some worthwhile vision and progress! We work in our own ebbs and flows over here. The Grief Center site is seeing some much needed attention with registration pages finally looking worthy of you incredible creatures out there clicking through. #progressnotperfection #process #griefsupport #vermont #thegriefcenterofvermont
What to Expect at The Grief Center Vol. 3: normalizing and neutral language grief and death literacy where welcome meets action a Vermont cemetery tour of sorts October is right around the corner! Hope to see you for the official opening October 17
What to Expect at The Grief Center Vol. 3: normalizing and neutral language grief and death literacy where welcome meets action a Vermont cemetery tour of sorts October is right around the corner! Hope to see you for the official opening October 17. #vermont #griefliteracy #deathliteracy #community #grief
A waiting and gathering room worth coming early for.
A waiting and gathering room worth coming early for.
This poem. I’ve returned to this poem so much, maybe not as much as The Peace of Wild Things or Manifesto over my life, yet definitely most often over the last few years. So many significant elders are moving on. Some of them raised me and didn
This poem. I’ve returned to this poem so much, maybe not as much as The Peace of Wild Things or Manifesto over my life, yet definitely most often over the last few years. So many significant elders are moving on. Some of them raised me and didn’t even know it. Such is the way of generosity. Personally, I feel like I need a circle to read his works aloud and mourn his death together. This one lands right in the heart. #wendellberry #mourning #vermont #grief #generosity
Where are you gonna go? Here. Where that afternoon and evening light pour in from the back. Where the space has been designed to welcome you. The art room is seeing more shape lately. The circle? Pretty close to ready. Here it is awaiting you in Oc
Where are you gonna go? Here. Where that afternoon and evening light pour in from the back. Where the space has been designed to welcome you. The art room is seeing more shape lately. The circle? Pretty close to ready. Here it is awaiting you in October. I sit here and wonder about you, what you are facing right now, what you will need most from the small elements and large programs, the many yous we will soon build community for and with here for a long time to come. #grief #vermont #placeofrefuge #inprogress #patientlywaiting
So much cerebral, computer, and sitting work lately! Social media, planning and logistics, sitting vigil, phew, I need to move. I got in early to tackle the bookshelves and am posting here to keep myself accountable for ACTUALLY BUILDING THEM today a
So much cerebral, computer, and sitting work lately! Social media, planning and logistics, sitting vigil, phew, I need to move. I got in early to tackle the bookshelves and am posting here to keep myself accountable for ACTUALLY BUILDING THEM today and organizing the community library. There are so many delicious tasks to do; concentration is a precious commodity. Also, look! The waiting room is really starting to come together. I can’t wait to see you there maybe drinking coffee, maybe staring into space, maybe reading a book from the shelves I am about to build, settling in before a circle together. #grief #vermont #someonehastobuildthedream #grieflibrary #griefsupport
The first word of this poem could be any number of things. Grief is obviously a good contender. Autumn is settling in here in Vermont, another good reason to learn to make any kind of fire. With love, Jess #grief #poetry #vermont #fire #warmthinth Listen. #poetry #circles #truthmandala #griefwork #thegriefcenterofvermont Who shall I say is calling? We are. Announcing your place at The Grief Center of Vermont in a wide range of forms (or gaggles) of your choosing and needs. We welcome all compassionate people and all forms of grief, loss, and change. This is a communi Finally, some worthwhile vision and progress! We work in our own ebbs and flows over here. The Grief Center site is seeing some much needed attention with registration pages finally looking worthy of you incredible creatures out there clicking throug What to Expect at The Grief Center Vol. 3: normalizing and neutral language grief and death literacy where welcome meets action a Vermont cemetery tour of sorts October is right around the corner! Hope to see you for the official opening October 17 A waiting and gathering room worth coming early for. This poem. I’ve returned to this poem so much, maybe not as much as The Peace of Wild Things or Manifesto over my life, yet definitely most often over the last few years. So many significant elders are moving on. Some of them raised me and didn Where are you gonna go? Here. Where that afternoon and evening light pour in from the back. Where the space has been designed to welcome you. The art room is seeing more shape lately. The circle? Pretty close to ready. Here it is awaiting you in Oc So much cerebral, computer, and sitting work lately! Social media, planning and logistics, sitting vigil, phew, I need to move. I got in early to tackle the bookshelves and am posting here to keep myself accountable for ACTUALLY BUILDING THEM today a
 

The Grief Center of Vermont

137 Iroquois Avenue
Suite 101
Essex Junction, VT 05452

currently open by event or appointment only

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.