The Ratchet Grief Project

Education & Experiences

Grief Was Never Meant to Be Carried Alone.

At The Ratchet Grief Project®, our classes, workshops, and retreats create space to process loss — individual, collective, ancestral — through education, ritual, and community. Rooted in womanist pastoral theology, African diasporic tradition, and grief scholarship, every offering treats grief as sacred and communal, not something to manage quietly or explain away.

A Note on Our Approach

Every offering at The Ratchet Grief Project® is built on the conviction that grief is not a problem to solve. We do not reduce grief to coping strategies, prescribed timelines, or step-by-step formulas. We offer witness, ritual, and community — because that is what grief actually requires.

Workshop

Workshops

Our workshops are designed for individuals, clergy, caregivers, and helping professionals ready to build real grief literacy. Sessions draw on the Re-Membering Process® and womanist frameworks to explore topics like disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss, moral injury, and the ways grief moves through the body, memory, and music. Workshops are offered as single sessions or short series, both in person and virtually.

ForIndividuals, clergy, caregivers, helping professionals
FormatSingle sessions or short series — in person or virtual
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Training

Classes & Trainings

For those seeking deeper formation, our classes and certification pathways equip clergy, caregivers, and practitioners with the theological and clinical grounding to accompany grief in their own communities. These offerings blend scholarship, ritual practice, and embodied learning.

ForClergy, caregivers, practitioners
FormatMulti-session — certification pathways available
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Retreat

Retreats

Our retreats offer immersive time away — space to rest, reflect, and reconnect with self and spirit. Set in restorative environments, each retreat weaves ritual, teaching, rest, and community into a few days set apart from the demands of daily life. Retreats are intentionally small, allowing for depth over volume.

ForOpen — intentionally small groups
FormatMulti-day, in-person
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Grief circle — community members gathered in sacred space
Dr. Jamie Eaddy speaking at a grief education event

Professional Certification

Death & Grief Companion Training

A four-level formation pathway for those called to accompany others through death and grief — rooted in womanist theology, liberationist frameworks, and relational mentorship with Dr. Jamie Eaddy.