Build a Grief‑Resilient Organization
Facilitated workshops with training that strengthen psychological safety and cohesion across your workplace or community.
LR Wellness translate 36 years of community-building practice into practical tools leaders can use today—no therapy required, just better leadership.
The Business Case for Grief Warrior Training
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Unaddressed grief costs organizations through lost productivity, increased absenteeism, and higher employee turnover. Most companies want to help but lack the specific tools and training to do so effectively. -
The Grief Warrior Training fills this critical gap. By investing in this program, you will:
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Boost Productivity: Help employees navigate loss and return to focused work.
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Improve Retention: Show your team they are valued as whole people, fostering loyalty.
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Strengthen Culture: Build a work environment rooted in psychological safety and mutual support.
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Empower Leaders: Give managers the confidence and language to have supportive, non-clinical conversations about grief.
Ignoring grief creates a culture where people hide pain to look professional.
LR Wellness help you change that.
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At the heart of the Grief Warrior Training is Lise Robinson, a Community Building Social worker with 36 years of experience with a proven track record of helping organizations like yours build supportive and resilient teams.
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Lise's journey into this specialized field began when she had gone through six loses in her family and was able to help shift the culture in wordplace to being more empathetic to loses. .\
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Personal experience of dealing with multiple losses my parents, three brothers and my ex-husband.
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Coordinated emergency support for Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees relocating to Edmonton. Dealt with a lot of loss of homes, jobs and people being displaced for months.
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Launched a COVID-19 food pantry that fed thousands of families.
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Led social workers who were part of Truth & Reconciliation gatherings where 6,000+ people shared residential school stories. Leading a team of social workers who recorded stories and was there to support individuals through sharing the facts of the abuses suffered.
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Built programs in food security, poverty reduction, diversity & inclusion, and nation-to-nation partnerships with First Nations and Metis Nation of Alberta.
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This insight led her to create the Grief Warrior Framework, a methodology that empowers leaders and colleagues with the confidence and skills to hold supportive space for grief. Her work ensures that compassion becomes a integral part of your company's culture, leading to tangible improvements in morale, retention, and overall well-being.
Grief Warrior is not a generic wellness program. It’s built on real-world community development leadership and crisis response. Lise Robinson turn that lived, evidence-informed experience into simple tools leaders can use to strengthen psychological safety and team cohesion.
LR Wellness give leaders simple, humane tools that turn difficult moments into trust-building culture.— Lise Robinson, Founder of LR Wellness, Community Building Social Worker.
Being Grief-aware leadership isn’t soft—it’s how communities stay strong in hard times
Meet the Founder: Lise Robinson
Your Guide in Building a Grief-Informed Workplace
Practical, scalable programs for a healthier culture
Grief Warrior turns lived community experience—wildfire evacuations, COVID food security, large-scale reconciliation work—into simple, humane tools leaders can use to build psychological safety and cohesion.
Who LR Wellness serves:
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HR & People Leaders
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DEI/ERG Leads • Municipalities
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• First Nations & Indigenous Organizations
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• Healthcare
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• Education
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• Non-profits
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• Mid-size enterprises
Download the Guide: The Grief-Aware Leader
A clear, 5-step framework leaders can use right away to build psychological safety and team cohesion—grounded in 36 years of community-building practice.
What you’ll get (3–5 bullets):
The 5-Step Grief Warrior Framework (acknowledge → advocate)
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Conversation scripts for tough moments (what to say / avoid)
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A manager quick-start checklist for the next 7 days
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A 10-item self-assessment to spot growth areas
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A mini case snapshot (how a team rebuilt trust)
Programs
1) The Grief-Aware Leadership Workshop (90 minutes)
Format: Virtual or in-person; managers & leaders
Outcomes:
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Understand the spectrum of grief (beyond bereavement)
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Apply the 3 pillars of a grief-aware response
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Use empathetic scripts for hard conversations
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Boost psychological safety quickly
Ideal for: Leadership days, manager series, executive retreats,
2) Community Capacity Bootcamp (6 weeks)
Format: Virtual cohort; weekly 2-hour sessions; HR, ERG leaders, community champions
Outcomes:
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Shared Grief Warrior framework grounded in community practice
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Practical skills (listening protocols, peer support, response playbooks)
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Tailored implementation plan for your context
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Internal Grief Warrior Champions certified
3) Grief Warrior Circles — Facilitator Certification (1 day)
Format: Virtual or in-person; up to 10 facilitators
Outcomes:
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Certification to run peer-support circles
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Sustainable internal support model
