The Transformational Grief
Workshop Series
Wednesdays: December 3, 10, and 17 2025
10:00am – 12:00pm
Rancho Santa Fe Senior Center.
Grief changes us. But it doesn’t have to isolate us.
Join us for three Wednesday mornings where we’ll explore how nature, art, and connection can help us move through loss. You’ll write and listen to poetry, create expressive art, and share in conversations with others who understand.
Led by grief specialist Lori Krause and author Laing Rikkers (Morning Leaves: Reflections on Loss, Grief, and Connection), these sessions offer space for reflection and renewal.
$25 for all three sessions. If cost is a barrier, please come anyway—your healing matters more.
Space is limited and parking fills up, so please register in advance.
For more information, please email
lori@thehandholders.com
Laing Rikkers
Laing Rikkers is an executive coach and business advisor with over 30 years of corporate leadership experience, specializing in helping high-performing individuals find purpose, clarity, and joy amid personal and professional challenges.
She empowers executives to navigate pivotal moments with resilience and focus, integrating emotional intelligence with practical business strategies. Laing’s approach supports leaders in sustaining peak performance while emerging stronger and more purpose-driven.
As the author of “Morning Leaves: Cultivating a Life of Beauty, Meaning, and Joy,” (Red Hen Press March 2026), Laing blends leadership acumen with a deep understanding of grief’s impact. Her work fosters a culture of resilience within organizations, enabling leaders to overcome obstacles while driving successful outcomes. Through a structured, confidential approach, she partners with clients to develop tailored solutions that align individual and organizational goals.
Lori Krause
Grief is a deeply personal journey. It deserves a limitless exploration to breathe, be expressed, and to be given movement. Lori’s commitment to bringing greater awareness to and literacy around loss and grief has created the opportunity to work with individuals, families, and communities to reshape their loss to empower their future. It is the light that guides Hand Holders.
Lori’s unwavering belief in the beauty of community, connection, and compassion enhanced by her personal experience with loss is what led her to serve others as a death doula, grief specialist, and advocate for growth. She is an INELDA-trained End of Life Doula and has her professional coaching credential (PCC) with the ICF as an End of Life and Grief Coach. She has the privilege of serving as a Healing Hearts Bereavement Coordinator and Facilitator for MIB Agents, a leading pediatric osteosarcoma nonprofit organization, by conducting one-on-one work with bereaved parents, support group sessions, wellness workshops, and retreats for parents and siblings of OsteoAngels. Additionally, she leads support groups and workshops for the Fanconi Cancer Foundation, a leading nonprofit organization improving the lives of those affected by Fanconi anemia and associated cancers worldwide.