Ann Weiser Cornell’s newest on-demand course
21 Days on Navigating Transitions, Grief & Loss
A gentle, guided journey through grief, loss, and life’s biggest changes, so you can move forward without leaving behind what mattered.
Class starts July 14 • Includes 3 live Q&A calls
Ann Weiser Cornell’s newest on-demand course
21 Days on Navigating Transitions, Grief & Loss
A gentle, guided journey through grief, loss, and life’s biggest changes, so you can move forward without leaving behind what mattered.
Class starts July 14 • Includes 3 live Q&A calls
—Pema Chodron
Something in you knows this isn’t a moment to push through.
Grief doesn’t follow a timeline. Transitions don’t wait until you’re ready. And between the loss itself and what comes next, it’s easy to lose track of yourself entirely.
Maybe you’re still doing your best to show up. Still functioning. But inside, something feels off. Numb, restless, or even angry. You don’t quite know who you are in this new landscape, or whether you’re allowed to still be grieving or confused.
Maybe the people around you have moved on. Maybe they don’t understand the particular shape of what you’ve lost or what’s changed. Perhaps you don’t even have words for it yet
21 Days on Navigating Transitions, Grief, & Loss was created for times like these. The ones between where you were and where you’re going after life took a different turn.
Where You May Be Now:
Where You’ll Be After 21 Days:
That quiet knowing that this is too big to carry alone is worth trusting. You don’t have to find your way through this by yourself. That’s what these 21 days are for.
A 21-day journey inward. Through loss and change, toward yourself.
If you’ve ever felt like the feelings that come up around loss are something to brace for, frustratingly persistent, or that you just want them to go away, that’s all perfectly normal. And…those feelings are all signs that something in you is still waiting to be met.
We’re often given the impression that grief and major life changes are things to get over, or just push through. IRF offers something different.
Instead of trying to change what you feel, you learn to be with it. To sit beside it. To listen to what it carries. And this turns out to be what actually helps with grief and transition. Not forcing or trying to ignore it, but accompanying it. By meeting yourself where you are.
Each of the 21 lessons builds gently on the one before. Through Ann’s video guidance and thoughtful reflection practices, you’ll move from the first rawness and disorientation of grief or a major transition, through the harder questions of identity and meaning, and toward what becomes possible on the other side.
You won’t be asked to rush or let go before you’re ready. And you won’t be doing this alone.
If you’ve ever felt like the feelings that come up around loss are something to brace for, frustratingly persistent, or that you just want them to go away, that’s all perfectly normal. And…those feelings are all signs that something in you is still waiting to be met.
We’re often given the impression that grief and major life changes are things to get over, or just push through. IRF offers something different.
Instead of trying to change what you feel, you learn to be with it. To sit beside it. To listen to what it carries. And this turns out to be what actually helps with grief and transition. Not forcing or trying to ignore it, but accompanying it. By meeting yourself where you are.
Each of the 21 lessons builds gently on the one before. Through Ann’s video guidance and thoughtful reflection practices, you’ll move from the first rawness and disorientation of grief or a major transition, through the harder questions of identity and meaning, and toward what becomes possible on the other side.
You won’t be asked to rush or let go before you’re ready. And you won’t be doing this alone.
What this course can help with
This course is particularly helpful if you’re navigating:
—Old Chinese Proverb
Navigating Transitions, Grief & Loss At A Glance
Daily Practices
Every day for 21 days you get one new practice to explore. Short enough to fit into real life, meaningful enough to stay with you.
Online Video Support
Daily videos to help you put the practices to work. Easy-to-use online course you can access from anywhere.
Supportive Community
A forum where you and other people in the course can share, reflect, and feel less alone in the process.
3 Live Q&A Calls
Let’s deepen the conversation around transitions, grief, and loss and all that brings up.
(The calls will be recorded if you can’t join live.)
When: 3 Thursdays, July 16, 23 & 30 from 10 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time.
Get Support Navigating Grief, Loss, and Life’s Biggest Changes
Some of the Topics We’ll Cover
- Loss, Grief, Transition — and the Importance of Feelings
- The Healing Power of Time — Really?
- The Support You Need and How to Ask for It
- Regrets, Guilt, and What-Ifs
- The Grief that Others Can’t See
- Big Life Change – Rebuilding Your Sense of Self
- Setbacks vs Losses
- Anger – Who Expected Anger?
- Dealing with Denial from Society and Other People’s Discomfort
- Managing Solitude and Loneliness
- Honoring What is Precious
- The Support You Need and How to Ask for It
- New Life Emerging
- What Remains, What Endures
- And more…
A Message From Ann
I’ve sat with many people over the years who were navigating grief and loss. The death of someone beloved, the end of a relationship, a life that no longer looked like the one they’d imagined. And what I’ve noticed again and again is that the hardest part isn’t usually the feeling itself. It’s the sense that you’re not doing it right. That you’re too much. That you should be over it by now. That moving forward means betraying what you loved.
What I’ve learned, from decades of teaching and from my own losses, is that grief needs to be accompanied. When something inside you finally feels truly met, something shifts. Not all at once, and not the way you expect. But it does shift.
That’s what this course offers. Not a map through grief, because grief doesn’t move in a straight line. You’ll get a way to be with yourself inside it, with more steadiness, more self-compassion, and more access to what’s actually alive in you.
I hope you’ll join me.
—Jeanette Winterson
Grief isn’t a problem to solve. Transition isn’t a detour from your real life. They are part of it. Part of you.
These 21 days will help you explore what changes when you can be with what’s here.
Enroll for Your Course Here
Class starts July 14 • Includes 3 live Q&A calls on July 16, 23 & 30 from 10 AM to 11 AM Pacific
21 Days on Navigating Transitions, Grief & Loss
You may be carrying more than anyone around you realizes — a loss that arrived without warning, a change that asked you to become someone you don’t quite know yet, or a grief that others don’t quite see or have words for. 21 Days on Navigating Transitions, Grief & Loss offers a gentle, guided path through the feelings and challenges that come with loss and major life change, so you can move forward without leaving behind what mattered.
Get Even More Support with Helpful Program Bonuses!
Available as soon as you sign up.
Touchstones for Tough Moments
There are moments in grief and transition when you don’t need more to do. You need something to hold onto. This guide offers gentle body-friendly invitations you can scan and land on, whenever you need them most. They’ll help you find a little ground beneath your feet whether you’re in the rawness of a fresh loss, the fog of a major life change, or somewhere in the long middle of it all.
Guided Self-Compassion Practice Collection
Some moments call for more than understanding. They call for being met. This collection of short, guided IRF practices offers you a way to turn toward yourself with genuine compassion during grief, loss, and the disorientation that major life change can bring. Each practice stands on its own, so you can return to whichever one fits where you are.
When Someone You Love Is Hurting: A Compassionate Presence Guide
We often hear from people that wish they knew how to be there for friends, family, or clients, “Am I saying the wrong thing?” “Am I rushing their process?” “Am I just making things harder?” This guide offers simple, IRF-informed ways to be present with someone in grief or change: how to listen without fixing, how to stay when it’s uncomfortable, and how to offer the kind of company that actually helps.
—Victoria Alexander
How This Course Works
Learn Wherever You Like
This course is accessible by computer, tablet, or smart phone. If you can connect to the internet, you can connect to this course!
Be Supported In Your Process!
You won’t be going it alone! You’ll have access to a forum to chat with other students, plus access to Ann for parts where you might feel stuck.
Available at Your Convenience!
Access new content (delivered daily) whenever it works for you. You get lifetime access, so you can revisit the material anytime
Interactive Materials
This course includes a beautiful PDF practices to help you integrate your learning. There will also be checkpoints during the course to check-in on your progress.
Some things people often ask before enrolling
What types of grief and loss does this course address?
This course is designed for the full range of what grief can look like. Not just the death of a loved one, but the end of a relationship, a major life transition, the loss of a future you’d planned on, health changes, estrangement, and the kinds of loss that don’t have a name but are just as real. It also addresses what’s sometimes called ambiguous grief or invisible grief: mourning something that others don’t recognize or acknowledge. If you’re not sure whether your particular loss “counts,” it does.
How is this different from grief therapy or grief counseling?
This course isn’t a substitute for therapy, and Ann isn’t functioning as your therapist here. What it offers is something complementary: a set of body-based, self-compassion practices grounded in Inner Relationship Focusing that you can use on your own, in your own time, to develop a different relationship with what you’re carrying.
Is this a somatic or body-based approach to grief?
Yes. IRF is grounded in the understanding that grief lives in the body, not just the mind. And that lasting change comes through turning toward those bodily felt experiences with curiosity and compassion, rather than trying to think your way through them. You don’t need any prior experience with somatic or body-based work. Ann teaches everything you need to engage with the supportive practices in this course.
I’m not sure I’m ready for this. Is there a right time?
If you’ve read this far, something in you is looking for a way through. That’s all the readiness you need. This course meets you wherever you are. Whether you’re in the acute rawness of a recent loss, navigating a grief that arrived years ago and never fully moved, or sitting with a loss that’s still approaching.
My grief feels different from other people’s. Will this still apply to me?
Yes. Grief takes many forms, and the IRF approach is built to meet whatever is most present in your own particular experiences. The course was designed with the uniqueness of each person’s experience of grief in mind.
I’ve tried therapy, journaling, and other approaches. What makes this different?
Many participants come to this course with a meaningful history of self-work, and still find themselves stuck in the same loops or caught off guard by the same feelings. What IRF offers that most approaches don’t is a way to turn toward difficult emotions rather than observe, analyze, or think through them. People who already have self-awareness often find the process moves quickly for them, because they’re not starting from scratch. They’re adding a missing piece.
Will this course be emotionally overwhelming?
The course is gentle by design, and Ann’s guidance is warm and steady throughout. You’ll never be pushed faster than feels right, and the practices are structured to support you, not flood you. That said, grief is real, and some lessons may bring things up. Part of what the course teaches is how to be with that so you’re not alone in those moments, and you have tools for them.
Can I take this course if I’m also in therapy?
Yes, the course works well alongside therapy. If anything comes up that feels like more than you can hold on your own, please do reach out to your therapist or another mental health professional. The IRF practices in this course are designed for personal growth and self-support, not as clinical treatment.
