Deepen Your Grief Literacy and Strengthen Your Professional Practice
For professionals who want to go further, the Premier Grief Literacy Program offers advanced training designed to deepen your understanding of the widowed experience and strengthen your ability to support widowed clients and customers with clarity, steadiness, and care.
Building on the foundation of Basic Certification, this program provides eleven additional modules that explore complex aspects of widowhood through the lens of the professional relationship.
Each module is designed to provide greater perspective, practical insight, and additional tools that help professionals maintain meaningful, long-term relationships with widowed clients.
Advanced Learning Modules
Premier participants receive access to eleven additional modules that explore the evolving realities of widowhood, including solo parenting, dating and repartnering, shifts in identity and faith, the impact of trauma, suicide death, and other complex life circumstances.
Participants are also introduced to the Widowed Resilience Scale, research developed through the Soaring Spirits Resilience Center that offers insight into how widowed people adapt over time.
Completion of all modules is optional. Premier access allows professionals to engage with this material as needed—whether to deepen their understanding, prepare for a specific client situation, or revisit topics as a refresher—for as long as their subscription remains active.
Advanced Grief Literacy Certification
Premier access provides flexibility, depth, and ongoing resources beyond the foundational training.
Premier Level Benefits Include:
- All benefits of Basic Grief Literacy Certification
- Access to 11 advanced training modules exploring complex aspects of the widowed experience
- The ability to use modules as on-demand learning, returning to specific topics when a client situation calls for deeper perspective
- Unlimited access for as long as your subscription remains active, allowing the training to serve as an ongoing professional resource
- The ability to request up to five Newly Widowed Packets each month with free shipping while your subscription is active
- Custom bereavement cards designed to help professionals communicate thoughtfully with grieving clients
- The opportunity to complete all modules and a final competency assessment to earn Advanced Grief Literacy Certification
- Recognition on the Soaring Spirits International website, where professionals who complete the Advanced Grief Literacy modules are listed in acknowledgement of their commitment to grief literacy and support of SSI’s mission
- A wooden desk totem recognizing your Advanced Certification and visible commitment to compassionate service
- Optional upgrade for Advanced Grief Literacy Certification holders to include a live link from the SSI website to your professional website
Premier certification reflects a deeper investment in grief literacy and demonstrates a commitment to serving widowed clients with informed care, professionalism, and respect.
Program Cost: $100 per month
Go Further in Your Practice
Professionals who invest in grief literacy often find that widowed clients remember the people who showed up with steadiness and care during one of the most difficult moments of their lives.
The Premier Grief Literacy Program helps you deepen that capacity—strengthening trust, supporting long-term client relationships, and building the kind of professional reputation that naturally leads to referrals.
