Grief & Life Transitions · GR-02
Grief Experience Cards
Explore words and images for varied grief experiences without placing them into stages or a required sequence.
Clinician-created · specialist review requiredFor clinician-facilitated use
This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.
The full-resolution WebP includes print-safe margins and should be downloaded by an adult professional. Read the guidance below before using the page.
How to use it
- Look through the cards and choose any that fit a little, a lot, not now, or not at all.
- Arrange them in any pattern, overlap them, or leave them separate.
- Add your own word or image, or pass on explaining a choice.
- Stop if the activity feels too much.
Reflection prompts
- Which experiences can exist together for you?
- What do you want others to understand or not assume?
Facilitator guidance
Normalize change, contradiction, numbness, relief, anger, longing, connection, and absence without suggesting universality. Do not infer a stage, timeline, diagnosis, or level of love from selected or unselected cards.
Adaptations & accessibility
- Use images without emotion words or words without images.
- Offer private sorting, AAC, gesture, or a smaller set.
- Create cards for culturally or personally meaningful experiences.
Professional-use review
Enhanced licensed grief-specialist and cultural-responsiveness review required before use; ensure the set does not prescribe stages, timelines, intensity, or a correct way to grieve.
