Overview
Complete your training as a licensed instructor over two full days, with an assessment component to be submitted within 10 days of completing the training.
As a licensed instructor, you’ll deliver an evidence-informed program supported by curriculum, resources and ongoing mentoring. It’s an opportunity to expand your professional offering, strengthening workplace capability and make a meaningful impact where it’s urgently needed.
This course is suitable for individuals seeking to build on their facilitation, training or coaching experience and who are passionate about building grief literacy.
Dates: 19 July & 22 June 2026
Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm both days
Pre Requisite:
A 30 min meet and greet is required before registering to become a licensed instructor, please drop us a line with your full name and enquiry and we’ll make a time with you.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for individuals seeking to build on their facilitation, training or coaching experience and who are passionate about building grief literacy.
As a Licensed Instructor, you empower people to:
- Recognise and respond appropriately to both death and non-death losses.
- Break down stigma and silence, creating workplaces where grief can be safely acknowledged.
- Build supportive environments that protect wellbeing and meet psychosocial safety obligations.
- Contribute to healthier, more resilient organisations and communities.
Format
Sessions will be delivered as 2 full days, with Assessment component to be submitted within 10 days of completing the training.
What to Expect
There are a maximum of 12 participants per group.
By the end of this training, Instructors will be able to:
1. Foundations of Grief and Loss
- Accurately explain contemporary understandings of grief, including its emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and workplace impacts.
- Facilitate informed discussions on diverse grief journeys, drawing on established and emerging models of grief to normalise variation rather than prescribe stages.
2. Cultural Safety, Diversity, and Inclusion in Grief Education
- Model and teach culturally safe and inclusive facilitation practices, including respectful language, non-assumptive approaches, and awareness of power and privilege.
- Guide participants to recognise the limits of their own cultural lenses when supporting grieving colleagues.
- Ensure grief education aligns with ethical, trauma-aware, and culturally responsive principles.
3. Grief First Aid Framework and Role Clarity
- Clearly articulate the role, scope, and limitations of a Grief First Aider, including boundaries between peer support and professional intervention.
- Teach participants when and how to escalate or refer to appropriate internal or external supports (e.g. EAP, HR, clinical services).
- Embed a preventative, workplace-first approach
- Position Grief First Aid within organisational wellbeing strategies using the Grief First Aid Framework and Governance Model.
4. Practical Skills
- Confidently teach and model the GRIEF Action Plan, demonstrating compassionate, confident, and ethical responses to grief in the workplace.
- Adapt delivery methods to suit different learning environments while maintaining fidelity to the Grief First Aid Framework
- Create and maintain psychologically safe learning environments, particularly when sensitive or emotionally charged topics arise.
- Apply safe storytelling principles, including consent, choice, containment, and non-extractive learning.
- Identify and respond appropriately to participant distress during training, including grounding strategies and referral pathways.
- Balance authentic learning with participant wellbeing protection, in line with the Safe Storytelling Policy.
5. Ethical Practice, Boundaries, and Confidentiality
- Uphold and teach the Ethical Code of Practice, including confidentiality, informed consent, and respect for participant autonomy.
- Maintain professional boundaries in training, storytelling, and post-session interactions.
- Recognise ethical risks and dilemmas in grief education and respond in accordance with governance requirements.
- Model ethical behaviour as a core component of instructor credibility and program integrity.
6. Governance, Quality Assurance, and Accreditation
Instructors will be able to:
- Explain the Grief First Aid Governance Model, including accountability, oversight, and instructor responsibilities.
- Deliver training in alignment with the Quality Assurance Framework, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and safety.
- Administer participant assessments and accreditation processes.
7. Instructor Self‑Care and Sustainability
- Demonstrate and teach sustainable self-care practices when working repeatedly with grief-related material.
- Recognise signs of cumulative emotional load and apply protective strategies.
- Model reflective practice and help participants understand the importance of boundaries and recovery.
8. Building Capability, Networks, and Future Pathways
- Position Grief First Aid strategically within organisations to support long-term culture change.
- Contribute feedback and insights to the Future Development Pathway of Grief First Aid.
- Act as ambassadors for quality, ethical, and evidence-informed grief education in workplaces.
9. Instructor Accreditation Outcome
On successful completion, Instructors will:
- Meet all training, assessment, ethical, and quality assurance requirements for Grief First Aid Instructor accreditation.
- Be authorised to deliver Grief First Aid training in accordance with licensing conditions.
- Commit to ongoing compliance with governance, professional development, and quality review processes.
Cost
The cost for this training, year one Licence Fee and Workplace Guide is: $3,300 (plus GST) ($3,630 inclusive of GST).
For full description of the Instructor package of support, please email us at Hello@grieffirstaid.au.
If you would like us to invoice your organisation, please email us at Hello@grieffirstaid.au.
Facilitator
Jessie Williams and Cathy Singleton
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