Virtual Grief Support Group - All Arms Locked
2025-09-15 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-22 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) and 15 more dates
Philly HEALs will be hosting a virtual support group for men who are experiencing grief from stigmatized loss. While we recognize that all grief can be difficult, when you lose a loved one in a stigmatized way, it can further impede the grieving process. Examples of stigmatized loss are losses due to overdose, addiction, homicide, or suicide. This group will assist in building community between men who have experienced similar losses as well as giving participants tools to deal with this type of grief. You can sign up for the group here: https://redcap.phila.gov/surveys/?s=A7FELKJWED

Grief & Loss Workshop
2025-09-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-30 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-27 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-29 18:30 - 20:00
Educational Workshop focused on a certain topic related to grief and loss of a loved one due to substance use. Sign up for the Zoom Link

Carrying Our Grief Together
2025-10-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Vernon Park, 5800 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, 19144, United States
The late African spiritual teacher Sobonfu Somé, who came from the Dagara people of Dano village in Burkino Faso, said: “Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing.”
Join Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective that has been holding community grief rituals since 2021, for its 5h annual community processional, Carrying Our Grief Together.
This is an invitation to reach across our cultural divide of individualism and privatization, to acknowledge the heartaches we carry, to stand on common ground, human to human, moving together with our grief. Together, we’ll create a pageantry of grieving as a collective protest, refusing to rise above and get over our experience. We will instead claim our grief as natural, as sacred, as a common, unifying mystery that softens and transforms how we relate to ourselves and each other.
We invite you to join us on Saturday, October 11, from 1-3 pm. in Vernon Park, 5800 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia. We will be joined by the Philadelphia Threshold Singers. Together we will walk through the park, using music, ritual and movement to express our grief.
You are encouraged to “wear your grief,” as you feel inspired. This event is free to attend but donations are appreciated.
The rain date is Sunday, October 12, from 1 – 3 p.m.

Ur Storytellers Storytelling Training
2025-10-29 09:00 - 13:30 | Zion Baptist Church, 3600 N Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19150, United States
Storytelling is a training facilitated by Ur Storytellers in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbility Services (DBHIDS). This training is one of many that are approved as a required prerequisite for applicants seeking to become a Certified Peer Specialist. Our goal is to inform the recovery and faith-based communities on how to share their stories and the importance of sharing them in community settings. This training will be 4 hrs. in length, delivered in a PowerPoint format, and interactive activities will enhance this training. After completing the training, all participants will receive a certificate of completion.
