AI for Grief & Loss Support
Navigate grief and loss with AI support — process emotions, manage practical tasks, communicate needs, and rebuild meaning. 8 compassionate, structured lessons.
What You'll Learn
- Identify the grief patterns you're experiencing and use AI to understand what's normal and when to seek professional help
- Use AI to organize the overwhelming practical tasks that follow a loss — funeral arrangements, legal paperwork, account closures, and notifications
- Apply AI-supported journaling and reflection techniques to process difficult emotions at your own pace
- Use AI to draft communications during grief — thank-you notes, workplace notifications, social media announcements, and responses to condolences
- Recognize different grief experiences across ages and relationships, and use AI to support children and others who are grieving
- Create a personal meaning-making practice that honors your loss while building toward a changed but meaningful future
Course Syllabus
When the World Keeps Moving and You Can’t
Grief doesn’t follow a schedule. It arrives on its own terms and stays as long as it needs to. Meanwhile, the world demands things from you — decisions about funerals, paperwork for insurance claims, responses to the hundreds of people reaching out, and somehow getting through the workday.
AI can’t carry your grief. But it can carry some of the load that surrounds it — the practical tasks, the communications, the organization — so you have more space to feel what you need to feel.
What You’ll Learn
This course covers both the emotional and practical sides of grief:
- Understanding grief: What’s normal, what’s concerning, and why grief doesn’t follow a neat timeline
- First days and weeks: Immediate decisions and the overwhelming wave of tasks
- Practical tasks: Funeral planning, legal paperwork, accounts, and notifications
- Emotional processing: Journaling, reflection, and AI-supported ways to work through pain
- Supporting others: Helping children, friends, and family members who are also grieving
- Rebuilding meaning: Finding a way forward that honors your loss
Who This Course Is For
- Anyone navigating grief from any type of loss — death, divorce, health, job, relationship, pet
- People supporting someone who is grieving
- Those feeling overwhelmed by the practical demands that accompany loss
- Anyone wondering whether their grief response is “normal”
Prerequisites: None. Only your willingness to engage at whatever pace feels right.
Important: This course is educational support, not therapy. If you’re in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) or the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741).
Frequently Asked Questions
Can AI really help with something as personal as grief?
AI doesn't replace human connection, therapy, or the healing that comes from community. But it helps with the practical and communicative sides of grief — organizing tasks you can't think through clearly, drafting messages when you don't have the words, providing journaling prompts when you need to process emotions at 3 AM, and researching what's normal when you're worried about your grief response.
Is this course a replacement for grief counseling?
No. This course provides practical tools and frameworks for navigating loss, but it's not therapy. If your grief is significantly impairing your daily life for more than a few weeks, please seek professional support. Many therapists specialize in grief and bereavement. The course helps you identify when professional help is needed.
My loss isn't a death — is this course still relevant?
Yes. Grief accompanies many types of loss — divorce, job loss, health diagnosis, estrangement, miscarriage, pet loss, loss of independence. The emotional patterns and coping strategies apply broadly, though some practical lessons (funeral planning, estate tasks) are specific to death.
How soon after a loss should I take this course?
Whenever you're ready. Some people find the practical lessons (tasks, communication) helpful within the first weeks. Others aren't ready to engage with educational content for months. There's no wrong timeline — come back to different lessons as they become relevant.