Welcome to The Grief Center of Vermont,
where we hold endings and changes together.

The Grief Center officially opens in the heart of Essex Junction on October 17! We are a place of refuge and retreat within the busyness of life, a place to land within yourself and with a small community of people facing the terrain of grief, death, and loss.

Your patience is appreciated as this site is under construction. As we polish calendars, curriculum, and opening day ceremony schedules, your cheerleading makes heavy work lighter—thank you! Follow along @griefcenterofvermont for behind-the-scenes looks into the opening of a community-based grief center. Stay tuned for updates or sign up for our newsletter. Hope to see you in circle!

Support Circles
DEAD LETTER PROJECT
GRIEF & DEATH DOULA SERVICES
RETREATS
View fullsize The change in seasons and soggy day have me particularly sleepy today. I have no energy for social media or my amateur graphic design. I’m at The Center cleaning, organizing, nesting in, and dreaming of when there will be a sliver of time to ta
View fullsize What to Expect at The Grief Center Vol. 3: normalizing and neutral language grief and death literacy where welcome meets action a Vermont cemetery tour of sorts October is right around the corner! Hope to see you for the official opening October 17
View fullsize Okay, but if only maybe 10% of the books are here yet…then if I put the old teaching books I have no business carting to the grave behind the books I access more in recent years…then it’ll be like they aren’t even there&hell
View fullsize A waiting and gathering room worth coming early for.
View fullsize This poem. I’ve returned to this poem so much, maybe not as much as The Peace of Wild Things or Manifesto over my life, yet definitely most often over the last few years. So many significant elders are moving on. Some of them raised me and didn
View fullsize Where are you gonna go? Here. Where that afternoon and evening light pour in from the back. Where the space has been designed to welcome you. The art room is seeing more shape lately. The circle? Pretty close to ready. Here it is awaiting you in Oc
View fullsize So much cerebral, computer, and sitting work lately! Social media, planning and logistics, sitting vigil, phew, I need to move. I got in early to tackle the bookshelves and am posting here to keep myself accountable for ACTUALLY BUILDING THEM today a
View fullsize Friends, this one feels a little different. Walk downtown anywhere these days and you’ll see human beings near death from substance use. Everyone you work with, shop around, walk past on the bike path, and eat lunch near is someone, or is one d
View fullsize The third Monday of each month brings together a small community of folks who are walking the terrain of losing their spouse/significant other. So much varies in how people arrive holding this grief. No matter how long you were together, or whether t
View fullsize The loss of a parent can bring up big shifts in family dynamics, relationships and roles, and your own sense of identity. Whether suddenly, after a period of caregiving following terminal illness, years of estrangement or distance, or all of the in-b
 

The Grief Center of Vermont

137 Iroquois Avenue
Suite 101
Essex Junction, VT 05452

currently open by event or appointment only

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.