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Curating Grief: A Creative Guide to Choosing What to Keep After a Loved One Dies

How do we decide what to keep after a loved one dies? This helpful guide from certified grief coach and curator Charlene Lam offers an innovative way of seeing meaningful objects, the physical belongings, and our relationships with the dead, the living, and ourselves.

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Do you have clients dealing with belongings after a major loss? Grief and Belongings: Sorting the Stuff of Life and Loss is a self-paced online course that offers the lens of Curating Grief to support grieving individuals as they choose what to keep and what to release. Originally developed in partnership with the What’s Your Grief Hub.

Charlene Lam is a certified grief coach, TEDx speaker, curator, and the author of Curating Grief: A Creative Guide to Choosing What to Keep After a Loved One Dies. After her mother died suddenly in 2013, Charlene leaned into her creativity and instincts as a curator to guide herself through grief.

With her creative platform The Grief Gallery® Charlene presents exhibitions internationally featuring the belongings of loved ones lost, including installations in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Lisbon.

She’s shared her life-affirming Curating Grief® approach with thousands of grievers through her individual client work, group programs, events, and talks. Her TEDx talk, “What Grief and Soy Sauce Taught Me About Life After Loss,” selected as a TEDx Editor’s Pick, has been viewed more than 20,000 times.

A proud Chinese-American New Yorker like her mom, she’s based in Lisbon, Portugal.