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Oxford Diploma: Death, Grief, Healing in Depth : ACCREDITED
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Rating: 4.6 out of 5(550 ratings)
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Oxford Diploma: Death, Grief, Healing in Depth : ACCREDITED

Extensive course on Death, Grief, Bereavement and Healing - including Grief Counselling and Grief Life Coach
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Entire content of Institute of Counselling Certificates (Counselling/Bereavement)
  • Through workbooks, discussions and lectures how to work through grief...how to heal
  • About Attachment, Loss, Grief - and then how to Heal
  • Specific techniques for Grief and Bereavement Counsellors
  • Becoming a Death Doula
  • How to come to terms with their own mortality
  • Quell certain fears about death that may have arisen
  • Look forward to the future with more wonder and peace than before
  • Make far better use of their time left
  • How death in the shape of COVID-19 is rampaging throughout the world - especially America
  • Openly discuss death with relatives and others
  • Look back with memories rather than plans
  • Be better prepared to study to become a Bereavement Counsellor
  • How children view death and how you can help them cope
  • Know about Mourning
  • Death rituals worldwide
  • Thoughts of major Philosophers on Death
  • Understand Grief and the Family Unit
  • Decluttering and deathcleaning
  • COVID-19 and the Elderly
  • Art therapy exercises to cope with Grief

Course content

98 sections791 lectures91h 39m total length
  • Introduction1:35
  • Day One : When the Crowd Disappears4:07
  • Day Two : The Cage of Grief4:23
  • Day Three : Three Pillars of Healing4:38
  • Day Four : The Eagle in the Chicken Coop5:00
  • Day Five : Holding your own view4:28
  • Day Six : Children See; Children Do4:27
  • Day Seven : The Goldfish Bowl4:29
  • When the World Tilts3:19

Requirements

  • Interest in Psychology and/or Bereavement Counselling
  • A willingness to contemplate death - in you and/or loved ones
  • An open mind - able to shift from fear to acceptance
  • Ideally, a printer for the numerous workbooks

Description

It's really just one question - the answer to which that shows how this is course is different to all others in this section on Udemy.

Do you want to enrol in a course where lectures are constantly added to, students' work is discussed in the Q/A, participation is encouraged and there is a high level of Instructor involvement?

If so - then enrol.

AI summary of 126 reviews:

"The reviews highlight the detailed and resource-rich nature of the course, with learners appreciating the thorough instruction, reflective questions, and well-structured materials that facilitate self-paced progress and deeper engagement."

Five case studies added in September 2025:


  • Grief Life Coach dealing with teenagers

  • Grief Life Coach dealing with the outcome of war

  • Grief Life Coach dealing with his/her own grief

  • Grief Life Coach - the communication skills needed

  • Grief Life Coach : strategies

Topics of particular interest to Business Students, added in May 2026:


  1. Understanding Grief at Work

  2. How Loss Affects Focus, Energy, and Performance

  3. Common Myths About Grief in Professional Settings

  4. What Managers Should Say to a Grieving Employee

  5. What Managers Should Avoid Saying or Doing

  6. How to Support a Bereaved Colleague Respectfully

  7. Grief, Communication, and Team Dynamics

  8. Returning to Work After Bereavement

  9. Managing Deadlines and Workload During Grief

  10. Creating Boundaries While Grieving at Work

  11. How HR and Leaders Can Build Grief-Sensitive Policies

  12. Psychological Safety After Loss

  13. When a Team Loses a Colleague

  14. Leading a Team Through Collective Grief

  15. Remote and Hybrid Support for Grieving Employees

  16. Cultural Differences in Grief and Mourning

  17. Ambiguous Loss and Non-Death Grief in the Workplace

  18. Healthy Coping Strategies During the Workday

  19. Recognizing When Someone Needs Extra Support

  20. Healing, Meaning, and Long-Term Adjustment After Loss


Throughout the course the emphasis is on going slowly - at your own pace. Think about what you are seeing, hearing, feeling. Share if you wish - participation in the Q/A is encouraged - it is not just for Questions and Answers but suggestions, comments, thoughts.

Topics covered:

1. Marketing yourself as a Grief Coach

2. Instead of a workbook - a section where students evaluate and discuss - share their grief

3. Death and Grief in America

4. Distress Tolerance and Grief

5. Celebration of Life Service

6. Death - a religious viewpoint

7. Grief coaching vs Grief Counselling

8. Healthy homework (helping you to deal with grief)

9. Death - helping your parents grieve

10. Death, Grief and Healing - come, walk with me

11. Meditations to help you grieve

12. Teenagers and Grief

Warning: there are elements of this course that you may find distressing as the material here is very current (August 2023). Remember though that although 'death' is in the title, so is 'grief and healing'. The purpose of this course is to help you grieve - to help you heal. Meditations are included together with areas for you to carry out your own investigations.

Three detailed workbooks/journals are included plus numerous other resources.


UPDATE: This course now includes a Handbook on Death, Grief and Healing.


Who this course is for:

  • Potential Grief and Bereavement Counsellors
  • Those studying for a Grief and Bereavement Counselling Certificate
  • Those with an interest in psychology, films, counselling...deaths
  • Those apprehensive about death, grief and bereavement
  • Anyone who wishes death was not a taboo subject
  • Those wanting to prepare for the impact of death of a loved one
  • Anyone wanting to talk to their children about death