Suggested Topics for the 2027 Conference

Our goal is to have diverse and broad representation in our programming. We invite proposals in your area of interest and expertise, welcoming the breadth of knowledge in our community. Feedback from our past conference highlights the following areas that participants are interested in hearing more about. This is informational and does not guarantee that abstracts related to these topic areas will be chosen.

• Suicide Loss
• Role of rituals and ceremonies
• Trauma informed grief care
• Grief of individuals with special needs
• Care for the terminally ill and dying
• Supporting veterans at end of life
• Spirituality and grief
• Working with children in schools
• Attachment informed grief therapy
• Anticipatory Grief
• Perinatal loss
• Grief considerations for the Latinx community
• Experiential and somatic approaches in grief
• Supporting grieving communities
• Digital Afterlife, Grief and Mourning
• Disenfranchised and Marginalized Grief
• Collective trauma and global grief