Grief Unleashed: A Conversation with Dina Bell-Laroche Exploring Sport and Grief Literacy

We were thrilled to speak with Dina Belle La Roche, who among many other things is a grief and loss literacy expert. Dina has held several senior leadership positions through her three decades in Canada’s high performance sport sector including the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee and since 2010, as a Partner with Sport Law, a company devoted to elevating sport.
Dina’s life changed dramatically in 2001 after the death of her youngest sister Tracy. Since then, her journey through grief has inspired her to advocate for greater grief and loss literacy. As a death educator, integral mastery level coachTM, keynote speaker, and published author, Dina’s commitment to help the bereaved re-imagine a new relationship with loss is unwavering.
Join us as we explore many facets of Dina’s expertise as to how cultures of sport have historically discouraged grief literacy, and how we can change that, and the powerful implications of being able to create more compassionate containers for grief and loss.
Here are some facts shared in this episode:
👉Grief comes in many forms: the loss of a dream or goal, identity, relationship, job, pet, human, etc.
👉Loss is an unavoidable part of sport.
👉Billions of children and young adults play sports each day, where they have the opportunity to learn valuable life lessons.
👉The majority of coaches, athletes, and leaders have no training, permission or models, for holding space for grief.
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