Registration is now open for Archeologies of Grief!

Series Overview

IDHA’s 2026 training series, Archeologies of Grief: Unearthing Our Wisdom, is for those interested in understanding what has been stolen or lost while being supported by intentional grief practices and wisdom reclamation. Whether you're working in clinical spaces, organizing communities, supporting loved ones, or navigating your own lived experience, this space offers frameworks, practices, and community centered around honoring the complexity of grief.

Grief is everywhere, especially now, and yet many of us are never taught how to hold it. Dominant western paradigms tend to rush, polish, and hide grieving practices, leaving little room to process the pain inflicted by those same forces. All of us have lost something at the hands of structures of domination, and for communities most harmed, grief, remembrance, and reclamation practices are transformative.

This series offers space to explore grief through disability justice, decolonial, relational, and embodied frameworks. Our faculty will draw on a range of practices to help you engage grief more fully – in yourself, in your clients, and in your communities. Across three participatory classes, we will examine topics including neurodivergent and disabled grief, epistemicide and the suppression of indigenous and lived wisdom, and alternatives to dominant Western grief paradigms rooted in collective care and embodied practice.

Together we will engage questions of survival, adaptation, and remembrance while developing more culturally responsive and justice-oriented approaches to supporting grief in ourselves, our communities, and our work.