Young Adult Grief Retreats

Arizona

Star Foundation Tubac, AZ

STAR takes special time and care to provide a supportive environment in which to heal from losses, be they long ago and still unresolved, or current. Their staff normalizes the process and provides a safe and nurturing space in which you can fully surrender to your process; going as deeply into your grief, and staying with it, as long as needed to find relief from the powerful and often overwhelming feelings of sadness, anger, fear, and guilt associated with the loss. At STAR, you are encouraged not only to allow yourself to grieve, but to express your feelings— whatever they may be. It is by allowing yourself to fully experience this process that you will find deep healing.

Sedona Sacred Earth – Spiritual retreat for grief, loss or depression Sedona, AZ

This program is designed to facilitate deep insight to our core beliefs, spiritual path and its obstacles, as well as our behavior as it manifests in our life-trajectory and in our relationships. It includes Western, Eastern and American indigenous practices and philosophy pertinent to clearing the road to healing and reclaiming our authentic selves. Each day includes a 4-6 hour land journey with a deliberate progression of clarifying our intentions and each land journey is aimed at prompting our increased capacity for living in authenticity and aiding our journey toward balance and healing on every level.

Selah Carefarm Sedona, AZ

The Selah Carefarm with its 40 rescue animals near Sedona Arizona encompasses 10-beautiful acres of farmland. For the traumatically bereaved, it’s a sacred place to be in nature and remember your beloved. You can schedule a visit to the carefarm for a few hours or for a few days, stay at their family guest house, and receive counseling and support services.

Stepping Stones of Hope Carefree, AZ

After many years of successfully sponsoring weekend camp programs for families grieving the loss of a loved one, Stepping Stones of Hope has designed a program for grieving adults whether or not they have dependent children living with them — Journeys, Pathways to Healing. This camp helps adults better understand and manage their grief after the death of a loved one.

California

Urban Adamah Berkeley, CA

Join Urban Adamah for a grief retreat for young adults ages 20 – 39 rooted in Jewish spirituality. They will build a weekend community of folks who’ve each experienced loss—whether a parent, sibling, partner, or dear friend.

Florida

Emotional Healing Orlando, FL

Emotional Healing offers Grief Loss And Difficult Emotions Retreat. At the retreats they create a loving environment to explore and work through sadness and hurt, anger and fear and numbness. Participants express their unexpressed feelings and heal old pain. Each participant has the opportunity to tell their story in a compassionate, loving setting, with others who are working through their own pain. In being heard and seen in this way, true healing can take place. The retreats are limited to 8-11 participants.

Massachusetts

Emotional Healing Western Massachusetts

Emotional Healing offers Grief Loss And Difficult Emotions Retreat and Breaking Free To Emotional Wellness Retreat. At the retreats they create a loving environment to explore and work through sadness and hurt, anger and fear and numbness. Participants express their unexpressed feelings and heal old pain. Each participant has the opportunity to tell their story in a compassionate, loving setting, with others who are working through their own pain. In being heard and seen in this way, true healing can take place. The retreats are limited to 8-11 participants.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Stockbridge, MA

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health offers various grief retreats and workshops for healing, renewal, and connection with adult peers who are also grieving. Their services are offered online and in person. Click here for upcoming events to support grief & trauma.

Pennsylvania

Experience Camps Camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge, PA

Experience Camps offers a weekend retreat for adults to grieve, connect, and play. This weekend will include many of the activities that make Experience Camps so special, like sharing circles, campfires, and other fun camp activities, plus authentic connection with your peers in a safe and supportive space.

Washington

Wild Grief Olympia, WA

Wild Grief believes in the healing power of both nature and peer support. At Wild Grief, they combine the two. They provide guided hikes at all levels, hour-long, day-long, and multi-day all focused on supporting each other while on our grief journeys. Grief is what we feel after the death of someone close in our lives and then the grief journey begins – we have to go through it and it is disorienting and often deeply painful. Their motto is Go Outside. Go Together. Go Through it. Wherever you are on your grief journey, they hope you can join on the trail.

National & International Programs

Wilderness Guides Council National & International Programs

The Wilderness Guides Council believes that being in right relationship with the natural world has great healing and inspirational qualities. Their goal is to re-introduce and increase the accessibility of meaningful, earth-based rites of passage in our modern culture, as well as nature-based healing and educational programs. They have various themed quests and programs includinig trauma & grief.

The Grief Cruises Carribean

Since 2016, The Grief Cruises is the only on-board program created specifically for grieving families. The program is for all loss types no matter how much time has passed.

Moving Through Grief Retreat Costa Rica

TwoCan Retreats’ Grief Retreats are a series of guided workshops, grief and praise rituals and embodied movement practices, including integrative yoga, meditation and breathwork, sharing stories, mindful journaling, song circle, ecstatic dance, sound-healing, reiki and so much more…we’ll grieve and explore our own mortality together.

TAPS Reteats Various Locations

TAPS is the national nonprofit organization providing compassionate care and comprehensive resources for all those grieving the death of a military or veteran loved one. TAPS Retreats take place over several days in a unique location and are often designed to bring together small groups of survivors who share similar losses to further build a sense of community. Each TAPS Retreat includes physical and emotional movement, time for conversation and reflection, and unique travel experiences. You’ll leave a TAPS Retreat with renewed confidence, a sense of triumph and lifelong friends.