THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT
Helping bereaved parents and siblings to understand grief as a creative and active process
OUR NEXT ACTIVE GRIEF WEEKEND RETREAT IS 19th - 21st september 2025
Our Mission
Changing the landscape and language of grief
The Good Grief Project is the brainchild of bereaved parents Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds whose son Josh died in a road accident in Vietnam in 2011. Jane is a psychotherapist and Jimmy is a filmmaker.
Our mission is to support families grieving after the untimely death of a loved one, particularly the death of a son or daughter of any age. And to promote an understanding of what it means to grieve in a society that often has difficulty talking openly about death, dying and bereavement.
Our own response to Josh’s death has been to use both the still and the moving image to articulate our grief. We now want to help you to find your way of expressing your grief.
upcoming events
1st June 2025
GRIEF – fit (9 weeks online)
18th – 20th July 2025
Yorkshire 3 Peaks Fundraising Challenge
19th – 21st September 2025
ACTIVE GRIEF WEEKEND retreat (Dartmoor)
12th October 2025
GRIEF – fit (9 weeks online)
4th January 2026
GRIEF – fit (9 weeks online)
1st March 2026
GRIEF – fit (9 weeks online)
8th – 10th May 2026
ACTIVE GRIEF WEEKEND retreat (Dartmoor)
18th -20th September 2026
ACTIVE GRIEF WEEKEND retreat (Dartmoor)
our latest news
New video for Martlets Hospice
Listen to Jane on The Bereaved Parents’ Club podcast
ARE YOU Grief-Fit?
Intentional Grief: Review of September’s Active Grief Weekend
“Grief is about doing…if you do stuff, you express stuff, that’s when you move forward in grief.”
ACTIVE GRIEF RETREATS
We have developed a number of workshops, courses and weekend retreats all designed to help you to manage and express your grief in ways that are both active and true to you.
Our next retreats are
19th – 21st September 2025
8th – 10th May 2026
18th – 20th September 2026
Blackadon Farm,
Nr Ivybridge Dartmoor
a love that never dies
A Film by Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris
A Love That Never Dies documents our journeys to Vietnam, India and across the USA – a trip made in honour of Josh who was also on his travels when he died.
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