Practical grief expertise for mission-led organisations.
Whether you’re facing grief directly or noticing it surfacing in your organisation, we can help you work out what’s needed and how to respond.
About us
We’re Navigating the Wilderness, a specialist grief practice with expertise in how grief shapes people, organisations and communities.
Our work draws on research, professional practice and lived experience. We bring specialist knowledge of grief and loss, including how it is shaped by the systems and conditions in which people live and work.
We work with you and your team to gather your bearings, and plot a course to walk alongside grief.
About you
You know your organisation, your people and the context you work in. You might be responding to a death or significant loss, noticing grief affecting your team or community, or trying to understand an issue that doesn't have an obvious solution.
We bring our grief expertise; you bring your knowledge of your context. Together, we can work out what is happening, what matters and what a useful response might look like.
We bring the tools and supports that will equip your team to walk in confidence, and move at the pace of the pack.
Our navigators lead from experience. Our boots are well worn, and we are surefooted in grief.
Who We Work With
We collaborate with organisations and communities seeking clearer insight into how grief affects their people, places and decision making.
Together, we build understandings that informs practice, strengthens relationships and enhances how we collectively respond to grief.
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We support organisations to understand how grief affects staff, culture and decision-making.
Our work includes:Policy and practice review
Workplace grief audits
Grief literacy training
Team workshops and reflective exercises
Consultancy for HR and OD teams
Guidance after a death in the workplace
Research into grief within specific organisational contexts
Participatory methods for linking grief and systems change
Grief-informed supervision
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We help teams understand how grief is present in the communities they work with and how to respond effectively.
Our support includes:Designing and delivering grief-engaged programmes
Workshops and facilitated sessions
Advisory roles for community projects and cultural spaces
Developing grief-literate approaches for volunteers and facilitators
Lived experience and community-led research
Coproduction and community development methods
Support for frontline customer-facing teams to respond with compassion
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We work with education settings to build grief-literate environments for staff and students.
Our services include:Inset day training and staff development
Consultancy after a death in an education or youth setting
Media and communication guidance
Support with pastoral approaches and whole-school environments
Training for governors, safeguarding leads and support staff
Reflective supervision and grief coaching for staff
(We work with educators and staff — not directly with children or young people.)
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We support health and care teams to understand grief as part of everyday practice.
Our work includes:Coproduced research on the clinical and social impacts of grief
Insight for social prescribing and community health roles
Training for frontline practitioners and carers
Consultancy for service design and delivery
Grief literacy as part of public health approaches
Support for teams navigating loss, change and complexity
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We work with organisations shaping strategy, funding and policy to bring grief literacy into decision making.
Our services include:Systems-focused consultancy
Wellbeing and reflective support for grantees
Grief-informed supervision for funded partners
Advisory roles on programme design and engagement
Longer-term grief strategy development
Coproduced approaches to understanding community impact
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We help media professionals represent grief responsibly and support people who share their stories.
Our work includes:Guidance on narrative framing and representation of grief
On-site or remote support for interviewees and contributors
Aftercare systems for people sharing lived experience
Reflective supervision for journalists working with grief stories
Training in grief literacy and equitable reporting
Support for journalism students and emerging storytellers
