Welcome to The Grief Center of Vermont,
where we hold endings and changes together.
A community-based retreat space made for you and all of life and death.
The Grief Center of Vermont offers grief support circles, workshops, retreats, and community events for people navigating all that shapes life and death. Our holistic, non-clinical approach to care is based in reflective, creative, and experiential practices that offer many ways to engage at varying comfort and need levels. Whether you are seeking the routine practices of a weekly circle or a weekend of deep reflection and ritual, we have a range of offerings that meet you where you are.
Don’t know where to begin? Feel welcome to schedule a 15-30 minute meet and greet or browse the calendar. There are many pathways of loss and change that bring people here. I am so glad you found us and sorry for what brought you.
With great gratitude and care,
Jess
A closer look.
The Grief Center of Vermont is a community-based grief center in the heart of Essex Junction offering a diversity of programs for a range of needs, comfort levels, and forms of loss on purpose.
All of our offerings are led by trained facilitators, doulas, artists, and grief specialists who have years of experience offering communal and personalized support to people experiencing all forms of grief and change. We offer a range of options to reflect, connect, co-create, learn, and process all that life brings. Whether a drop-in group, a seven-week series, an afternoon ritual, or year-long retreat cohort, we seek to meet the real need for timely, responsive, and personalized griefcare.
You do not have to carry the weight of life and death alone. Grief is highly personal, universal, non-linear, and arrives in many forms. You deserve layers of support and care. At a time when you can find online support groups of varying quality and size for anything under the sun and moon, we believe what engages grief (and the difficult dynamics of deep change) is being sustainably seen, held, heard, accepted, and welcomed by a community in a space that doesn’t disappear once you close your browser window or rotate to the next available conference room. You deserve a beautiful, comfortable, and welcoming space to gather to process life’s most challenging experiences.
Community happens here.
Connection happens here.
Care happens here.
Creativity happens here.
Refuge happens here.
You are welcome at The Grief Center of Vermont.
Featured Events and Circles
STANDING STILL:
a Nov-Dec cohort
A Fallow Season: Going Inward to Self-Steward
THE SEASONS OF LOSS:
year-long retreat cohort
MONTHLY OPEN CIRCLE (now Saturdays)
CALENDAR
IMPORTANT DETAILS
This live calendar will always have the most up-to-date information. Registration for circles and cohorts closes when full or at 24 hours in advance of the start time in case we have questions or information to share related to the selected program. If you are an existing community member and wish to join after that point, please email Jess. Pre-registration is required as space is intentionally limited.
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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.

