Step into your Grief Cocoon — your sacred space

DATE: Sunday 5 July 2026
TIME: 2pm UK | 9am EST | 90 minutes
LOCATION: Online | Plus replay (without circle for confidentiality and safety)
COST: £25 (supported and free places available for those who need - see FAQ)

In a busy life, grief can be left quietly waiting to be heard in the depths of your heart. If you’ve been carrying your grief in the background while life demands you to keep going. Grief Cocoon is your 90 minute pause.

Held and gently guided by Tanya Wilkinson, an AC Certified Grief & Life Transitions Coach.

Just like a caterpillar retreats into its cocoon before emerging as a butterfly. This is a soft, nurturing space to wrap yourself in a blanket of care, tend to your grief, and allow your gentle transformation through it.

Whether you’re grieving any human (including any stage of baby loss), infertility, pet, relationship or marriage, redundancy, or world events — all are welcome here.

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What makes this space unique?

In busy lives, you can push your grief aside as you hold it together for others. Or because you believe that feeling your grief might swallow you up. But just like the caterpillar, you need space to cocoon — where you can feel, process, rest and transform. This 90 minute grief support session is a gentle guided journey in the comfort of your grief cocoon at home, which will give you:

A sacred pause and nervous system support in a busy schedule
Space and ritual to honour your grief without judgment or rush
Softness and pacing so that you can come as you are and make it your own
Nature’s storytelling will guide our journey together
Tools to help you to listen within, to gather insights to light your forwards path
A focus on creating and earning safety held by a trauma informed coach

what you’ll experience in the cocoon:

ritual meaning

We start with an optional guided grief ritual — to honour your grief with intention and create sacred space for yourself. Don’t fancy doing and just want to watch? Don’t worry, you’ll receive a lot watching too

Rest, Reflect, Renew

We then flow into a guided meditation and grief journaling journey. Blending moments of stillness, followed by gently letting our words flow onto the page. With the invitation to take it at your pace

community connection

Space for a few shares from the Grief Cocoon Community, where you will be supported by me and held in community. Don’t want to speak or be on camera? That’s ok! Do what feels right for you

all grief is welcome here

You’ve been holding it all together and your grief has nowhere to land. Whether you’ve been going through grief for the loss of humans including any stage of baby loss, pets, relationships, health diagnoses, career endings, redundancy, big transitional moments in life, the devastation we’re witnessing against people and planet, and more.

If the £25 investment isn’t possible in this month’s budgets, but you want to join us — then head to the FAQ’s at the bottom of this page for how you can get a supported or free spot in the cocoon.

All tender hearts belong here.

want to gift grief cocoon to someone who’s grieving?

You can buy more than one ticket so you can gift this experience to a friend, colleague, or loved one. At checkout, simply select the number of tickets you’d like.

After purchase, you’ll receive a confirmation email with next steps — including how to pass on the names and email addresses of the people you’re gifting to (with their permission). Plus the option for a e-gift certificate if you would like.

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This is for you if…

**You feel like you’re holding it together** for work, family, friends and life — wanting to make space for you and your grief
**Your grief** **feels overwhelming and you don’t know where to start** — wanting a gentle space to explore it
**People are expecting you to “move on”** — and you want to be held, not pressured to sparkle
**You long for a soft space where you don’t have to be “fine”**, where your grief is welcomed rather than avoided.
**You crave connection with others who *really* get grief** — without pressure to talk, explain or wear a mask.

reserve your spot for £25

join grief cocoon and receive:

create your cocoon welcome video

A nourishing 5 minute Grief Cocoon welcome video, explaining how to create your perfect cocoon for our session

live 90 minute session with a group

Our Grief Cocoon main event is on 5 July — join live to connect with a group of fellow grievers

replay access for 1 month

Can’t make it live? Watch on replay minus the short sharing circle at the end for safety & confidentiality

Plus everyone who attends this month’s Grief Cocoon will be given an exclusive Early Bird offer to sign up for next month’s session

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Meet Tanya - your Grief Coach

**“Grief has catalysed some of the biggest shifts in my life. Now, I help people to turn life’s tender endings into opportunities for transformation and growth.”**
I’m Tanya, bereaved mother to our darling daughter Ngākau Raiona (lioness heart). I discovered that being present with her death and my grief did not make my heartbreak worse. Instead, it revealed the truth of the depth of feelings that I can hold. The beauty in the impermanence of everything. How joy and heartbreak can co-exist. Opening my heart up to more life, love and meaning - and presence, no matter what.
Now a Holistic Grief, Life & Leadership Coach (AC, ACCPH and IPHM accredited), who helps high functioning, heart led people to navigate life’s defining moments. Including death and endings we didn’t choose, the transitions we didn’t see coming, the grief that we carry with us for life, and the quiet longing for something more.

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An important note

Grief Cocoon is a space for ritual, meditation, self-connection and gentle journaling where you are guided by an AC certified trauma informed Grief & Life Transitions Coach. It is not a form of therapy or counselling, or a replacement for either of them. Nothing shared in this session should be understood as medical advice or used as a replacement for professional mental health support.

By signing up, you take full responsibility for your wellbeing before, during, and after the event. You are always in control of how deeply you engage in these events, with every exercise a suggestion with you in full control of what you choose to do. Please honour your own pace — you are always free to pause, step out, or take space if you need it.

If you are currently receiving support from a doctor, therapist, counsellor, or other healthcare professional, please speak to them before attending to ensure this experience is appropriate for you.

See you on Sunday 5 July at 14:00 GMT | 15:00 CET | 09:00 EST | 06:00 PST

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faqs

If you’re carrying grief — recent or old, loud or quiet — and you’re craving a gentle space to land, then this is a space for you. With all types of grief welcome here.
It is important to note that everyone’s grief journey is unique. Sometimes these spaces will be supportive and right. But other times we might need to give these spaces a miss, or need the dedicated support of a therapist or counsellor.
Yes. A replay will be sent to everyone who registers. Please note that the sharing circle at the end won’t be included in the replay for confidentiality reasons and to ensure a safe and trauma informed experience for those watching on replay.
You’ll have access to the replay for 1 month and be able to revisit the practices in your own time, at your own pace, whether that’s later the same day or a week or two after. There’s no pressure to show up live to receive the support.
Creating grief spaces that are inclusive is one way that I live my values. If the £25 investment for this Grief Cocoon event is not possible this month, then please reach out to me. Just let me know if there’s a smaller amount you could contribute, or if you need a free ticket. No questions asked - we’ll get you in!
You can message me at tanya@greeninthegrey.com.
Grief Cocoon could be a supportive gift to someone in your life who is grieving.
You can buy more than one ticket so you can gift this experience to a loved one, friend or colleage. At checkout, simply select the number of tickets you’d like.
After purchase, you’ll receive a confirmation email with next steps — including how to pass on the names and email addresses of the people you’re gifting to (with their permission). Plus the option for a e-gift certificate if you would like.
No — Grief Cocoon is not therapy or counselling. Nor is it a replacement for these.
It’s a gentle, supportive space focused on ritual, rest, self reflection, self-care and community.
Whereas therapy is focussed on supporting you to process the past. Grief coaching is about meeting yourself in the present and navigating the forwards path with deepened intention.
Note that this is a live event and not 1:1 or group coaching, or a support group. It is not a replacement for therapy, counselling and other mental health support.
The majority of the content will be self reflection, with some time at the end for a few optional shares.
No - sharing is always optional.
You’re invited to show up exactly as you are — camera on or off, in silence or in conversation in our sharing space at the end. Your comfort and care comes first — so show up exactly as you are with no pressure.
Yes. If you register and later realise this isn’t right for you, you can request a full refund within 48 hours of purchase — no questions asked. Note that for any purchases within 48 hours of the live session start date, refunds cannot be given after the live session has started.
Please contact me at tanya@greeninthegrey.com if this is required.
After 48 hours from purchase there are no refunds. But also know that you’ll get the replay into your inbox if you can no longer make it live.
Not at all. Everything is guided, simple, and accessible. All you need to bring is yourself.

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Step into your Grief Cocoon — your sacred space