Sarah Hines

Speaker  |  Facilitator  | 
Founder, Grief Advocacy

Legacy is not what we leave at the end.
It is what we practice while we are still here.

Bring Sarah to your stage For organizations: Grief Advocacy
The Work

Building connection in hard places.

Some transitions are chosen. Some arrive without permission. A relationship ends. A role changes. A career closes. A body shifts. A loss redraws the room. What once held shape no longer does.

Loss is not only what ends. When it is honoured, something real grows in the space it leaves: deeper connection, clearer purpose, a truer sense of what we carry forward. That is the work, on stages, with leadership teams, and in private conversation.

Loss

The terrain most of us were never taught to navigate.

Connection

Finding our way back to ourselves, and to each other, when the roles that defined us fall away.

Legacy

Understanding what we want to carry forward and what we are ready to set down.

How the work happens
01

Speaking

Speaking engagements for organizations, conferences, and communities navigating grief, transition, identity, leadership, and change. What is offered is not a motivational arc with a tidy landing. It is an honest accounting of what happens at the threshold, and what becomes possible when we stop pretending we know what comes next.

All topics customized to your audience.

Speaking Topics

Holding Shape in a Shifting World
Compassionate Leadership with Healthy Boundaries
Beyond the Summit
Transitions and Legacy
Speaking
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For organizations

Grief Advocacy

Grief-informed leadership for first responders, healthcare teams, and the leaders who keep them standing. Built in long-term care homes across Canada through COVID-19.

Leading Through Loss workshops
Grief-informed leadership series
Retirement and role transition
Team facilitation after loss
Explore Grief Advocacy
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Private Work

A small number of private engagements each year for leaders and men in defining roles: when a career closes, a role ends, or a loss changes the shape of a life.

This is not advice-giving. It is honest, grounded work informed by Internal Family Systems and somatic practice, built around where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

Engagements begin with a conversation and are offered by fit, not by volume.

Private work
A guiding belief
Change is not about forgetting who we have been.
It is about discovering how we belong
in what comes next.
About

Sarah Hines

Sarah Hines

Sarah Hines works at the intersection of loss, leadership, and transition. She is a speaker and facilitator who has spent years sitting with people in the hard middle of change, the space between who they were and who they are becoming.

As founder of Grief Advocacy, she supported long-term care homes across Canada through COVID-19 with a national network of 35 facilitators. She led the leadership programs herself, including a grief-informed certification delivered across North America. Leaders called her in after deaths on their teams and through decisions that tested their people's values.

She brings both the personal and the professional to everything she does, because she believes the two were never meant to be separate.

Certifications & Training

Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
IFS Therapy Informed Practitioner
Mental Health First Aid
Trauma Informed Practice
Death Doula Accreditation
Clinical Trauma Professional Level 1
Certified Funeral Celebrant
Integrative Somatic Parts
Home Hospice Training
Movement for Trauma Therapy Training
Rites & Rituals Practitioner
Edu-Therapy CBT for Grievers Trainer
Field Notes

Field Notes.

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May 2026

Leading While Grieving

Writing in McKinsey Quarterly, researchers reported unresolved grief in one-third of the 7,000-plus executives they had worked with, and organizations consistently ill-equipped to handle it.

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January 2026

When the Mission Ends

Military-to-civilian transition is one of the most significant identity shifts a person can move through. Not because the skills disappear, but because the framework that gave them meaning does.

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December 2025

When the Title Was the Whole Story

For decades, the role provided daily confirmation that you were someone it was worth being. When it ends, what remains? On executive identity, transition, and what comes after special.

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For conversations that shape what comes next.

Begin with a private conversation. No performance. No tidy script. Just the first honest threshold.