What is the Grief Recovery Method?

The Grief Recovery Method® is an evidence-based program designed to help you move beyond the pain of loss. Unlike traditional talking therapy, it provides a structured, action-oriented approach to identifying and completing unresolved emotions tied to grief, due to any kind of loss.

This 8-week programme empowers you to take meaningful steps toward healing, helping you rebuild your life with a sense of peace and emotional freedom.

How Can This 8 Week Group Benefit You?

✅ A safe, supportive space to explore your grief without judgment
✅ Practical tools to release emotional pain and find healing
✅ Guided steps to complete unresolved feelings around loss
✅ The opportunity to connect with others who truly understand

Using the Grief Recovery Handbook, we will guide you to take the actions outlined in the handbook over 8 consecutive weeks.   Each session runs from 11am – 1pm, all weeks are mandatory, please consider your capacity to attend before committing to the group.

Each session starts at 11am sharp, please can you arrive by 10:45am so you are settled and ready to start at 11am as we have a lot to cover in each session.

Please be aware that there is a half term week commencing 26th May, you may need to consider childcare on Tuesday 27th (week 2 of the group). It is essential that all sessions are completed in order for you to receive the full benefit of this process.

Catch up sessions can be arranged for illness or unexpected emergencies, but we will be a group of 16, so if you can try to attend the sessions as scheduled that will benefit the flow of the group immensely.

Please review this period of time in your calendar and try to have as little extra commitments as possible.  This work can feel exhausting, extra selfcare during this process is extremely important.

This group would usually be charged at £300 per person. The Sacred Death Centre community association in Glastonbury is partly funding this group, so it is offered to you at £150.

You are required to buy a copy of the Grief Recovery Handbook.  You can buy a copy online via the link at the bottom or you can buy one from us for £10, please add that when you reserve your space in the group. You will also be requested to complete a feedback questionnaire at the end of the course, this will support our new application for funding later in 2025.

Please consider your capacity to commit to the time and emotional effort required to complete this programme. As well as attending the group you will be required to do some reading and complete note taking, or specific written exercises in between each session that requires roughly 60 minutes of your time per week.

We look forward to connecting sharing this work with you.

From our hearts to yours

Lucy Lord & Melissa Taylor

To learn about your facilitators click the links below.

www.lucylord.co.uk

Lucy Lord – The Grief Recovery Method

Melissa Taylor – The Grief Recovery Method

To buy the Grief Recovery Handbook:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grief-Recovery-Handbook-Anniversary-Expanded/dp/0061686077/

Join us for a powerful, heart-led gathering as we honour the sacred threads of grief and gratitude—two sides of the same precious coin.

This ceremony marks a year in the life of the Sacred Death Centre: a community initiative dedicated to creating a healthier culture around death, dying, and grief. Together, we are reclaiming these natural rites of passage and bringing them home, into community, into conversation, and into connection.

🖤 The first part of the ceremony will centre around a Grief Ritual, inspired by Gate 4 of Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief—“What we expected and did not receive.” We will explore how the absence of village, elders, and right relationship with the natural world leaves an ache in our hearts. Through reflection, spoken word, and a simple stone ritual, we will offer space for these sorrows to be acknowledged, expressed, and released.

🌾 The second part will move into a Gratitude Ceremony, weaving stories and myths from indigenous traditions that echo through time into our modern longing for belonging. We’ll explore how gratitude has been held in community and offer our own thanks to the land in a ritual of reciprocity. A dance of giving and receiving, honouring the breath of life, death, and everything in between.

🎉 This is also a celebration of all that has unfolded through the Sacred Death Centre in it’s first year—our griefs, our growth, and the collective soul that has carried us.

💫 Please bring a small offering of fruit, cake or nourishing food to share in a communal feast afterwards. Vegan, gluten-free, or sugar-free options are especially welcome as part of a shared field of plenty.

✨ All are welcome. Come as you are, with your sorrows and your songs, your tears and your thanksgiving. Let us remember forward—together.

This is a free event, all donations are welcome.  Any offering of flowers will also be gratefully received.

We look forward to sharing this time with you. 

Love Lucy & Hannah