Beyond Words: effective ways to support miscarriage, stillbirth and Infant Loss survivors
A compassionate, practical workshop equipping healthcare professionals to support families through pregnancy and infant loss.
Beyond Words is a workshop designed to equip healthcare professionals and support staff with deeper insight into the lived experience of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss.
This training is shaped by the voices of loss mothers, who share firsthand what was helpful and what was unintentionally hurtful during their care and grief journey.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Every year, families experience the heartbreak of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss.
In those moments, healthcare providers and ministry leaders are often the first to respond. What is said, and what is not said, can leave a lasting impact.
Many professionals want to offer meaningful support, but feel unsure how to do that well in such a tender and complex space.
Without guidance, even well-intentioned care can feel clinical, rushed, or unintentionally isolating.
This workshop is designed to bridge that gap and help you offer care that feels both compassionate and grounded.
“This showed me how to show up even when I don’t have the “right” words to say…my presence means more than I even realized.”
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
What makes this workshop especially impactful is simple.
You hear directly from loss moms.
They share their stories with honesty and vulnerability, reflecting on the care they received, what helped, what hurt, and what they needed most.
Their voices offer a perspective that clinical training alone cannot provide.
WHAT YOU’LL GAIN
Insight from Patient Stories
Hear how care teams impacted a mother’s experience and long-term healing
Practical Tools for Compassionate Care
Learn simple, meaningful ways to support grieving families through your presence and actions
Language That Honors Loss
Gain confidence in what to say, what not to say, and how to hold space well
WHO THIS IS FOR
Doctors, nurses, nursing students, and healthcare professionals across labor and delivery, NICU, postpartum care, and clinical training environments.
DFW WORKSHOPS
We are currently planning in-person workshops in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Join the interest list to receive dates and details as they are finalized.
Because of current grant funding, we are able to offer this workshop at no cost to select hospital partners for a limited time.
FACILITATOR
Peyton Lauderdale is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Gathering Hope, a Texas-based nonprofit helping loss moms find healing through community.
A loss mom herself, Peyton’s work is shaped by both personal experience and over a decade of walking closely with women navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss. Through the Beyond Words workshop, she equips healthcare and ministry professionals with practical, compassionate ways to support grieving mothers.
Peyton is also the host of The Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and author of Cherished: A Devotional About Loss.
You will not always have the perfect words.
But with the right tools and understanding, you can offer care that helps families feel seen, respected, and not alone.