Processing the Weight: Operational Grief Skills for Corrections Professionals

A Three-Part Online Webinar Series

Corrections work involves repeated exposure to situations that accumulate over time. Mental health crises you can't fully address. Human deterioration you witness shift after shift. System constraints that prevent you from doing what you know would actually help.

You've been ignored long enough.

You're an entire first responder system rolled into one person. You manage the impact of other people's grief and trauma. You respond to medical emergencies. You're constantly monitoring and de-escalating behaviours. You're literally and figuratively putting out fires every single shift.

And you barely show up in the first responder literature.

It's as though you're serving your own sentence alongside everyone else behind those walls.

Most training addresses critical incidents - the big, obvious events.

This addresses what builds up between them.

The grief of watching preventable harm happen over and over. The moral complexity of confinement being your job requirement. The environmental impact of working inside a high-stress facility permanently . You can't leave the scene, you have to return to it tomorrow.

That weight has nowhere to go. And it affects everything: your decision-making, your focus, your relationships with colleagues and family, how long you can sustain this work.

What This Series Builds

Webinar 1: Recognizing and Processing Operational Weight

• Recognize patterns of cumulative stress in yourself and colleagues EARLY (before it breaks you or them)

• Differentiate between acute reaction and cumulative weight - they need different interventions

• Understand the operational impact of unprocessed grief on decision-making, focus, and interpersonal effectiveness

• Identify the common ways people try to deal with this (and why they don't actually work)

• Learn to process operational grief to maintain performance and wellbeing

Webinar 2: Peer Support Skills for Operational Weight

• Create conversations that work within corrections culture (because "just be vulnerable" doesn't fly when trust is survival-critical)

• Recognize when a colleague is carrying too much

• Open conversations that invite without demanding

• Know when peer support is enough and when someone needs more

Webinar 3: Daily Operational Maintenance

• Corrections-specific practices that actually work (not generic "self-care" nonsense)

• Somatic tools for managing hypervigilance without compromising safety awareness

• Physical protocols for anger that has no outlet at work

• Grief processing that doesn't require tears or prolonged emotional exposure

How It Works

Three 75-minute live online sessions for your team (up to 20 participants) - this is designed to be done by teams in one facility.

Confidential space - not recorded, what's shared stays shared

Supported between sessions - if material comes up for you between webinars, you'll have access to a registered psychotherapist and peer support specialist in drop in online peer support sessions (optional to attend).

Follow-up resources after each session to keep the work going

For Your Facility:

Investment: $4,900 for the complete series (for up to 15 people, includes psychotherapist assisted drop-in sessions between each session (x2)

This is operational skills training for people doing work that involves cumulative exposure nobody talks about.

Register your team today: info@goodgriefacademy.com

Questions before registering? We expect you’ll have questions + we’re happy to discuss whether this is the right fit for your team.