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Conscious Grief Journey for All Loss
I invite you to this sacred space of being with loss and navigating grief, towards coping, resilience, healing, growth and transformation, with Mindful and Compassionate Awareness and the power of Community. We embark on a journey of moving through grief, healing, and reconnecting with life.
Yasemin
In service of healing since 2014
Where to begin to support navigating your grief journey?
Start Building Resilience
Transform YOUR Grief in Service of Your HEALING
LEARN and PRACTICE ways to gain solace and respite in the midst of grief, giving you tools and agency. You can stay simply introduced, per below, or go deeper, in your own terms and timeline. I created a program for you that takes you through a proven system.
Start right away to support your grief:
Understand that grief is a natural response to loss and can manifest in various ways.
Acknowledge your feelings and allow yourself to experience them without judgment.
Seek support from friends, family, or a therapist to help you navigate through the grieving process.
Practice self-care activities such as exercise, meditation, or journaling to cope with your emotions.
Remember that healing from grief takes time and it's okay to seek help when needed.
Stay connected with others who can provide empathy and understanding during this challenging time.
Embracing Mindfulness in Times of Grief
Mindfulness involves being fully present and aware of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the moment.
By practicing mindfulness, individuals can cultivate a sense of acceptance and non-judgment towards their grief.
It allows for a deeper understanding of one's emotions and helps in processing and navigating through the grieving process.
Finding Solace Through Self-Compassion
Self-compassion involves treating oneself with kindness, understanding, and acceptance during difficult times.
By practicing self-compassion, individuals can offer themselves the same care and support they would give to a loved one in distress.
It helps in easing the emotional pain of grief and fosters a sense of inner peace and comfort.
Seeking Respite in Support Systems
Building a support network of friends, family, or a therapist can provide comfort and solace during times of grief.
Sharing your feelings and experiences with trusted individuals can lighten the emotional burden and offer a sense of connection and belonging.
Support systems can offer different perspectives, guidance, and assistance in coping with grief, empowering individuals to navigate through their healing journey.
Yasemin Isler
Please take your time to peruse the site for what you need the most. Below, I offer some suggestions, followed by my approach on tending to grief.
If you wish to go directly to what may support you the most, here’s a list of most common ones that people seek, Your needs may vary, I offer services including the following, Please click on what you need the most at this time on your journey, or email me for guidance.
Grief education programs including self-paced on-demand courses to learn at your own time and pace:
Individual and personalized grief guidance:
Supportive grief groups and circles:
If you are supporting others in their grief. whether you are a professional, community leader or volunteer:
If you need support for yourself or your loved one with managing end-of-life related matters:
For lectures, workshops, retreats and community gatherings for your organization or community - please contact to discuss:
If you would like to organize a grief circle or healing community gathering, lead by Yasemin:
These are all founded on grief research, time tested experience leading and perfecting the program, personal experiences, accompanying the grief journeys of fellow humans, mind-heart-presence wisdom and practices supported by neuroscience.
My Approach to Navigating Grief:
Our hearts know when they are ready to heal and often guide us, when we listen. Deeply sorry for your grief. So glad that you found Grief Circles - Center for MCCG. You are welcomed with a tender heart.
Grief Circles in light of Mindfulness, Compassion and Community for Grief™ and the MCCG™ program were created out of love, living and witnessing of suffering, curiosity of life and for healing, in order to companion others in their grief, human to human, with love, wisdom and compassion.
When I started on a healing grief journey, I did not find one method that incorporated all of the wisdom of contemplative traditions and grief research in one place. Based on personal and professional experiences, I created a comprehensive program, which is the foundation of everything you find here. It has been adopted by more people recently, which is a good sign of my vision that holds true and continues to expand, in service of supporting grief, loss and ways of healing. The reason that I have not yet published a book is directly due to life, specifically caregiving and illnesses. I am holding them dearly in heart and mind, allowing what is here to be as is. I hope that we can work together on uncovering what is here for you and how to let go what is possible to let go of.
Our capacities for deep grief, suffering, expression of all that’s lived, surviving the unbearable, supporting one another through turmoils, healing, post traumatic growth and transformation are vast. There is no single recipe for living, grieving, dying. This is an invitation to be with all that there is. When grief arrives, looking into its depth, unassumingly working through its arduous path, along the highways and rugged roads of our life as presented to us. Recognizing that even when it feels overwhelming, there will be a time when radically accepting and turning towards our grief is where the healing will take place. Bringing our humanity in, for our sake, for our loved one’s sake and for the sake of all of us.
This, is the start of our work together: being present to our grief. You are invited to lay out the welcome mat for yourself, too, as you bring mindful awareness and kind attention, under my guidance, to your grief experience.
You may be new to mindfulness and that is great. It allows a clean slate to learn from. I have been practicing for over forty years, teaching it for over ten years. I also train and mentor mindfulness and meditation teachers. You may have dabbled in mindfulness before or have been practicing for a while. That is great, too. My students and grief support clients range from novice (beginner) to advanced mindfulness and meditation practitioners.
You may be curious about how it may affect or interfere with your belief systems. I do not include any specific faith based training nor religious rituals. If it is meaningful for you, you could, of course, add your own and create your personalized healing space honoring your belief system. Some clients find this very meaningful and supportive. Others do not. It is very personal. We can incorporate them to our work together or you can keep them separate. What is important is to create an authentic and meaningful space for you to navigate and process your grief.
You are invited to learn and experience with us, the reality and practicality of grief, and to equally honor and normalize your grief as it is manifested. Tend your grief, heart and soul. You are invited to come as you are, to be here fully with your grief.
May your healing journey hold you steady.
Yasemin Yamodo-Isler, Founder
About the name
Healing Circles have been used by the indigenous people across the land for millenia. Mindfulness and compassion practices were introduced by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. Support Groups have been around since more recently. I created this program long before a pandemic swept the world and the concept of grief became a household name. It was created after deep research and study into the nature of grief, how best to accompany it, and inviting in the potential of healing, from the onset. Join and learn from the original Mindful Grief Circles program and Mindfulness, Compassion and Community for Grief™ (MCCG™) which is trademarked.
“Grief is timeless.
Grief is deep. Grief is mysterious.
Grief is painful. Grief is scary. Grief is messy.
Grief will be sticky. Grief will feel stuck.
Grief keeps on taking and giving.
Grief works us in ways we haven’t planned.
Grief can make us grow and expand.
Grief can feel lonely. Yet Grief connects us with common humanity.
Grieving is part of being human.
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Grief has knocked on your door. Invite it in.
“It has been a privilege, heartfelt and humbling experience to sit with those who grieve many losses, in their unique ways, while they also sit connected to the common human experience.
I wish I’d say my experiences of grief and loss are over and I can only offer you what I learned already. That would be arrogant and naive. Joys and sorrows keep up with our lives, until our last breath. All I can do is stand in awe of love, courage, resilience and wisdom, of many.
It is an honor to keep these grief circles ⭕️ and support groups going.
Do not grieve alone.
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If you are looking for a grief support group to process your grief and move towards healing, consider our program.
Our next Grief Circles support group is starting soon. Learn more and see if this is right for you. I hope you will join us.
If you are looking to start learning on your own how to support your grief, consider self-based introductory course.
The self-paced, online, on-demand, Mindfulness for Grief: Course 1, is designed just for that purpose.
There is something here for everyone experiencing depths of grief, no matter your loss. Join our community. Work with us in a way that is the most supportive for you at this time, one-on-one, in community, or both.
Explore ways to navigate your grief or allow us to help you with it.
Grief Circles, Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Community, is woman-minority founded and led. Thank you for considering supporting and engaging with small and mighty organization with solid expertise.
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