Infant Loss Group
Last Call to Register!
Tuesday evenings, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
January 21, 2025 - February 25, 2025
Cottonwood Center for the Arts
427 E. Colorado Ave, Studio 219, Colorado Springs 80903
Cost: $120 per person or couple. Need-based scholarships available.
For information or to register, contact Susan Jacobsen with Henry's Heart Art Therapy, susan.jacobsen@yahoo.com
OR Sarah Lee with Voices of Grief Support and Education Center, 719-505-2257, sarah.lee@voicesofgriefcenter.org
Winter 2025, Grief Support
& Education Groups
Registration now open!
Winter 2025 groups now forming in Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.
For more information or to express your interest, contact Sarah Lee, 719-505-2257, info@voicesofgriefcenter.org.
For the Woodland Park group, contact Shellie Lasiter-Read, 719-619-8591, goodgriefcompanion@gmail.com.
Click here to download the Flyer PDF.
Grief Support Group Descriptions
Group locations vary and are hosted by partner organizations around town. Three or four groups are offered each session, with options offered in Spring, Summer and Fall. Scholarships are always offered, to ensure accessibility for those with financial need.
💙 Understanding Your Grief: This eight-week closed support and education group is the cornerstone of our model, using the #1 recommended grief book as named by the NY Times, “Understanding your Grief” by Dr. Alan Wolfelt. Participants consistently express their gratitude for the depth and breadth of this book and acknowledge how transformative the group experience has been in their understanding and acceptance of the grief journey.
💙 Facing the Mourning: This six-week closed group uses the workbook developed by the Heartlight Center in Denver. The group is invited to engage with weekly practices to facilitate mourning – the outward expression of our grief. Topics include goal setting, creating a memorial, journaling, and letter writing.
💙 Infant Loss Group: This six-week closed group is offered in partnership with local art therapist, Susan Jacobsen (Henry’s Heart Art Therapy). Individuals or couples are invited to a safe, supportive educational support group which includes art therapy directives to help process the trauma and unique heartache of infant loss.
💙 Gone Too Soon: This 8-week group was hosted in Fall 2024 for the first time for those who have lost someone due to drugs or alcohol, including addiction or accidental overdoses. The curriculum was designed using two short books by Dr. Alan Wolfelt: “Understanding your Grief after a Drug-Overdose Death” and “The Guilt of Grief.” Content also affirmed many principles from the 12-step movement and was co-facilitated by a licensed addiction specialist.
💙 Navigating Early Grief: Designed to offer practical support and gentle care for those in their earliest months of grief, this 4-week closed group was developed in 2024 by VOGC facilitator Pam Engelbert. The group is offered to those in their first 3-4 months following a loss. Foundational resources which shape the group content include “Discovering Significance” by Doug Manning and “The Paradoxes of Mourning” by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Grief Support Groups
Additional 6-week and 8-week groups in
Colorado Springs and Woodland Park every Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Contact a facilitator for more information:
Sarah Lee, 719-505-2257
or Kathy Sparnins, 719-659-0447.
Send email to info@voicesofgriefcenter.org with any questions or inputs. Please include your phone number so we can reach you.
What Group Participants say:
“I cannot express how grateful I am that I got to attend the Voices of Grief support group. They carried me when I could not see a way out of the pain and suffering one experiences when their soul mate dies.”
“One of the best things about participating in a grief support group is the relief that comes with the realization, I’m not crazy and that other people have shared the same thoughts and acted in similar ways.”
Thanks to our Community Partners
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