Podcast Guests
Be a guest on Grief Support in Practice
The show is a conversation among professionals whose work regularly meets grieving people. If that describes your work, we would like to hear from you.
If your work regularly brings you into contact with grieving people, Grief Support in Practice exists to hear from you. This page covers who we invite, what the conversation involves, and how the recording works.
Guests
Who we invite
Practitioners and program leaders rather than personalities. If grieving people are part of your working week, or you run a program that serves them, you are the person the show exists to hear from.
Hospice and palliative care
Bereavement coordinators, social workers, program directors, and clinicians working with families before and after a death.
Funeral and death care
Funeral directors, aftercare coordinators, and memorial professionals who meet families at the moment of loss and afterward.
Chaplaincy and clergy
Hospital and hospice chaplains, pastoral caregivers, and faith leaders carrying grief work alongside everything else.
Clinical mental health
Therapists, counselors, and psychologists working with bereavement, prolonged grief, and loss of every kind.
Employers and employee support
Human resources leaders and employee assistance program directors handling bereavement policy, workplace loss, and return to work.
Researchers and educators
Thanatologists, academics, and educators whose work shapes how the field understands grief and trains for it.
Adjacent fields are welcome. Senior living, home health, family law, financial and estate professionals, veterinary medicine, and disaster response all meet grief regularly and are almost never asked about it. For the full picture of the show, see Grief Support in Practice.
Subject matter
What we would talk about
Your practice. The questions that produce the best episodes are the ones professionals rarely get asked in public.
- What your work actually involves, including the parts that appear in no job description.
- How you decide where to send someone, and what you wish you had when the answer is not obvious.
- Where your scope ends, how you recognize it in the moment, and what happens next.
- Grief that goes unrecognized, including non-death loss and the losses nobody around a person names as grief at all.
- Where the system fails, particularly the spaces between disciplines where people are handed off and lost.
- Carrying this work over a career, and what sustains the people who do it.
You are the expert on your own work. That is the reason you are being asked.
You are not expected to speak about grief coaching or about board certification, and most guests do not. Appearing on the show creates no relationship with the board and no obligation of any kind.
The process
What to expect
Approvals
If you need sign-off from your organization
Many hospices, health systems, and employers require approval before staff appear publicly. That is a reasonable process and we are used to it.
On request, you receive a written description of the show, the topic areas planned for your episode, the recording format, and the review-before-publication terms, in a form you can forward to communications, legal, or a supervisor. Ask before you commit to anything, and take whatever time the approval needs.
Guests speak about patterns and decisions rather than identifiable people. Any confidentiality obligation that applies to your practice applies on the show.
Next step
Tell us about your work
A few sentences about your role and what you would want to talk about is enough. If there is an episode there, we will be in touch to talk it through before anything is scheduled.
Recommending a colleague is equally welcome. The best guests are usually named by someone else rather than by themselves.
Common questions
Get in touch
Your work belongs in this conversation
A few sentences about what you do and what you would want to talk about is enough to start. There is no commitment until you decide there is an episode worth recording.