Consultation & Mentorship
1:1 Consults | Group Mentorship | Consult Group

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATION
For grief tenders seeking guidance on a particular challenge or continuous, personalized mentorship.
Whether you’re preparing for a grief ritual, dealing with a specific challenge in your practice, or growing your capacities as a facilitator, you’ll receive personalized guidance to strengthen your skills and approach. Choose one-time consultations for focused support or ongoing mentorship for deeper, long-term leadership growth.
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE: Ritual design and planning, facilitator role and boundaries, ethical and cultural considerations, sensitive topics and difficult moments, logistical and practical considerations, holding complex grief, self-led leadership through IFS, and more…
SLIDING SCALE: $80 – $180 for a one-hour session
LEARN MORE: To learn more or schedule an appointment, please email Siena at nwgrieftending@gmail.com.

GROUP MENTORSHIP
For groups seeking to learn alongside peers in a shared space of reflection, practice, and dialogue, and who already have a group gathered for the process.
EXAMPLE GROUPS:
Foundations Mentorship Circle – For those newer to grief ritual facilitation, this format provides foundational support to build confidence, explore ritual design, and practice facilitation skills in a collaborative space.
Grief Ritual Practice Circle – Designed for those who have experience with grief tending and are ready to deepen their facilitation practice. This format offers opportunities to integrate your learnings, receive feedback, and lead rituals within a supportive community.
Community Ritual Preparation – For groups planning a 2-4 hour grief ritual for their local community, this format offers practical guidance, reflection space, support, and collaborative problem-solving as you plan and facilitate your event.
SLIDING SCALE: Varies by group size – please reach out for details.
LEARN MORE: To learn more or schedule an appointment, please email Siena at nwgrieftending@gmail.com. Free 20-minute exploration calls available upon request.

FACILITATOR CONSULT CIRCLE
For facilitators seeking to join a group dedicated to providing focused support, feedback, and collaborative problem-solving on topics related to leading grief rituals.
This group is ideal for grief tenders who are already facilitating grief rituals or preparing to step into a facilitation role. It’s an opportunity for fellow grief tenders to share learnings, seek collaboration, bring questions and discussion topics, and offer support to one another. It is also a space to build a supportive peer community — because we can’t do this work alone.
SLIDING SCALE: $20 – $50 per hour-and-a-half consult group
LEARN MORE: For updates about the next Facilitator Consult Group, please join the interest list.
“Siena held the circle in a way that invited trust—not just among our cohort, but in our own natural gifts and capacities. This circle marked a real threshold for me. Before this experience, I had never led a community ritual—but within this container, I stepped into facilitation in grounded, approachable ways. With Siena’s mentorship and the group’s dynamic perspectives and encouragement, I came to trust that I could hold space for others while staying rooted in my own practice.”
“Participation in Siena’s practice circle provided the framework and support to deepen my relationship with grief-tending and feel more confidence and ease integrating ancestral practices into my personal grieving and my professional services. The group encouraged me to trust my grief-tending gifts and skills, develop “right relationship” with ritual and working with spirit, and has inspired me to continue to learn from elders and connect with community.”
“Siena is a deeply caring and intuitive mentor. She has a gift for holding facilitation in its administrative and soulful needs, and I felt supported, guided, and spacious to explore doing my time in her grief practice group. I am leaving my time in the practice circle wiser, humbler, and inspired.”

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Siena Tenisci, MA, LMHC is a therapist, community organizer, and founder of Northwest Grief Tending. She is a descendant of Abruzzese and Celtic peoples – lineages where keening women once held dedicated and respected roles in society as vocal rituals who supported communal grief work.
Siena has been facilitating grief rituals for over a decade and continues to mentor in grief ritual leadership with Therese Charvet, Laurence Cole, Francis Weller, and Vince Horan. She completed her Masters in Counseling at Antioch University in Seattle – a program focused on advancing social, racial, economic, and environmental justice – and integrates Internal Family Systems, body-based methods, and anti-oppression frameworks into her work.
PAST EVENTS
Hosting community grief rituals in the PNW since 2017:
PNW EVENTS
Greiving White Supremacy | June 2025
Grieving with Mother Earth | May 2025
Community Grief Choir | May 2025
Rite of Passage Journeys Retreat| Mar 2025
Community Grief Choir | Feb 2025
Grieving White Supremacy Retreat | Jan 2025
Rite of Passage Journeys Retreat| Dec 2024
Comox Valley Grief Retreat | Nov 2024
Vashon Island Grief Retreat | Oct 2024
Bellingham Grief Retreat | Oct 2024
Rite of Passage Journeys Retreat| Fall 2024
Rite of Passage Journeys Retreat| Spring 2024
Wilderness Awareness School Grief Guild | Feb 2024
Seattle 6-Week Grief Circle | May 2024
Olympia Grief Retreat| Dec 2023
Rite of Passage Journeys Retreat| Fall 2023
Spokane Grief Retreat | Oct 2023
All-Day Meadow Grief Retreat | July 2023
Seattle Grief Retreat | April 2023
Camp Samish Grief Retreat | April 2023
All-Day Meadow Grief Retreat | July 2023
All-Day Meadow Grief Retreat | Aug 7, 2021
All-Day Meadow Grief Retreat | July 10, 2021
Midwinter Grief Tending Ritual | Feb 23, 2020
Holiday Season Grief Tending Ritual | Dec 15, 2019
Fall Grief Tending Ritual | Oct 5, 2019
Spring Grief Tending Ritual | April 13, 2019
Post-Holiday Grief Tending Ritual | Jan 19, 2019
#MeToo Women’s Healing Circle | Oct 5, 2018
October Grief Tending Ritual | Oct 20, 2018
September Grief Tending Ritual | Sept 15, 2018
July Grief Tending Ritual | July 14, 2018
June Grief Tending Ritual | June 9, 2018
May Grief Tending Ritual | May 12, 2018
April Grief Tending Ritual | Apr 7, 2018
March Grief Tending Ritual | Mar 10, 2018
February Grief Tending Ritual | Feb 10, 2018
January Grief Tending Ritual | Jan 6, 2018
Holiday Season Grief Tending Ritual | Dec 16, 2017
ONLINE EVENTS
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | April 2025
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | Mar 2025
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | Feb 2025
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | Nov 2024
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | Oct 2024
Grief & Gratitude Ritual | Sept 2024
6-Week Lean In Circle | July 2024
6-Week Lean In Circle | Nov, 2023
6-Week Lean In Circle | Sept, 2023
4-Month Staying the Course Circle | Sept, 2023
3-Month Staying the Course Circle | Apr, 2023
6-Week Lean In Circle | Mar, 2023
3-Month Staying the Course Circle | Jan, 2023
6-Week Lean In Circle | Jan, 2023
6-Week Lean In Circle | Nov, 2022
6-Week Lean In Circle | Oct 11, 2022
6-Week Lean In Circle | May 27, 2022
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Mar 26, 2022
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Feb 27, 2022
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Jan 29, 2022
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Dec 12, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Nov 14, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Oct 9, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Jun 5, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | May 8 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 17, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 4, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Mar 20, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Mar 7, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Feb 20, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Feb 7, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Jan 24, 2021
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Jan 9, 2021
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Holiday Grief Tending Ritual | Dec 26, 2020
Holiday Grief Tending Ritual | Dec 12, 2020
Thanksgiving Grief and Gratitude Ritual | Nov 28, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Oct 25, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Oct 11, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Sept 27, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Sept 13, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Aug 30, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Aug 23, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Aug 9, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | July 26, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | July 12, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | June 28, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | June 14, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | May 31, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | May 17, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | May 10, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | May 3, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 26, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 19, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 12, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 5, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Apr 1, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Mar 29, 2020
Virtual Grief Tending Series | Mar 24, 2020
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