Tuesday August 18th | 5-6:30pm pacific time
Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training Q&A
with Josea & jane
If you have felt the call to grief tending & grief ritual work, but not known where to start, welcome home.
It is time.
Join us for this live Q & A:
The world has never needed more grief tenders than we need right now.
Just look around – and things are likely going to get worse before they get better. 
I believe that community based grief tending is at the heart of collective liberation.
People are suffering. The earth is suffering. We need all hands on deck with deep alchemy skills to support the collective death & rebirth happening ... and we need it right now.
If you have dreamed of building a thriving Grief Tending practice that sustains you deeply, serves your community & supports collective liberation, you are for sure in the right place.
Applications Are Open
for our Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation (level 1) Training
begins September 15th, 2026
This program is our 4 month professional training designed to support you to grow your capacity to tend grief & trauma with confidence in both 1:1 and group settings.
For $3397 USD you will be immersed in a 4 month initiatory journey designed to:
- Build your capacity to stay present when grief intensifies - learning to recognize the signs when someone is moving deeper, and developing somatic skills to hold space with confidence
- Tend your own ancestral and personal grief so it stops getting activated when you're holding space for others - learning to differentiate between what's yours and what's theirs
- Trust yourself to hold the full spectrum of human emotion - rage, despair, terror, ecstasy - without needing to fix, soothe, or manage it
- Understand the difference between grief and trauma - and know precisely how to work with each in the moment, reading the signals in someone's nervous system
- Build sustainable practices for staying grounded and vital while doing deep work - so you can serve from overflow rather than depletion
- Be held in a circle of practitioners who understand this work intimately - where you can bring your own grief, your questions, your edges, and be met with fierce compassion
- Bring these essential healing practices to your community - knowing you're part of a growing network restoring grief literacy for this and future generations
Weekly live discussion calls, pre-recorded learning material, small groups for somatic practice & discussion & access to our other programs.
Payment plans available · Solidarity pricing for BIPOC practitioners
About Your Guides
Josea Tamira Crossley
Founder of Dark Woods of Grief
Josea Tamira Crossley has spent over 25 years gathering the threads of somatic therapy, ancestral healing, ritual facilitation, and community-based grief work — and weaving them into something her students describe as both rigorous and profoundly alive.
She has trained with Francis Weller (author, Wild Edge of Sorrow), Mariah Moser (Relational Somatic Psychotherapy), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Diane Poole Heller (DARe), Irene Lyon (SmartBodySmartMind), and others. She has facilitated grief work with hundreds of individuals across North America and beyond.
Her ancestors came from Ireland and England — and her own journey with intergenerational grief, alongside her commitment to decolonizing how we hold pain, runs through everything she teaches.
She is the founder of Dark Woods of Grief and the creator of the Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training, now in its fifth cohort.
Jane Spielman
Dark Woods of Grief Community Elder
Jane worked as an educator for 50 years, but is still deeply excited by and involved in focusing on creating educational spaces where students are immersed in rich natural environments that encourage their own questions and ways of knowing to drive curriculum. She helped build trauma and healing informed school programs all over New York City that got to the root of what was in the way of student’s learning. When her wife of over 3 decades fell ill, she began her study of caregiving and grief. Jane believes that learning how to grieve and face trauma in safe-enough spaces is essential to physical, emotional and spiritual life; and is absolutely essential in the process of discovering the gifts we have to offer the world.
Jane has studied with Zen and Tibetan Buddhist masters, hospice providers and is a graduating student in the Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training. Her work is grounded in these lineages as well as Somatic tools, Internal Family Systems work & Reiki.
Jane is a Jewish anti-Zionist who believes we were born for these times, and a lifelong activist, with a focus on allyship in anti-colonist struggles. She is also a proud lesbian who has always represented and collaborated with other LGBTQ2S folx.
Jane has built her own active practice in Sow the Seeds of Healing to support individuals as well as groups in somatic grief and trauma work.
Tuesday August 18th | 5-6:30pm pacific time
Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training Q&A
with Josea & jane
Join us for this live Q & A: