Create a personalized memorial flag in honour of your little one to display along the memorial pathway at the 2026 No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk. This free workshop includes all supplies needed to create a meaningful tribute.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Getting to Know Grief & Understanding Loss

This session introduces participants to the experience of grief and explores how the loss of a sibling can affect thoughts, emotions, relationships, and everyday life. Participants learn that grief is not linear and that there is no single “right” way to grieve. The group creates a safe and supportive environment where participants can begin sharing their experiences and recognizing that their grief is valid.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Getting to Know Grief & Understanding Loss

This session introduces participants to the experience of grief and explores how the loss of a sibling can affect thoughts, emotions, relationships, and everyday life. Participants learn that grief is not linear and that there is no single “right” way to grieve. The group creates a safe and supportive environment where participants can begin sharing their experiences and recognizing that their grief is valid.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Getting to Know Grief & Understanding Loss

This session introduces participants to the experience of grief and explores how the loss of a sibling can affect thoughts, emotions, relationships, and everyday life. Participants learn that grief is not linear and that there is no single “right” way to grieve. The group creates a safe and supportive environment where participants can begin sharing their experiences and recognizing that their grief is valid.

A welcoming community playgroup where children can play, create, and connect with peers who understand, while parents enjoy a relaxed morning of conversation, community, and support with other families who have experienced pregnancy, infant, or child loss.

*There is no cost to attend

Holding It All: Parenting Through Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for parents navigating life after pregnancy, infant, or child loss while raising their children.

In this space, we acknowledge all of your children — the ones you carry in your arms and the ones you carry in your heart. There is no expectation to “move on” or separate your grief from your parenting. Instead, we make room for both.

In-person + virtual meetings designed to provide gentle and compassionate support for parents who have experienced the heartache of early pregnancy loss. These gatherings offer a safe space for individuals to connect with others who understand their grief and emotional journey.

Create a personalized memorial flag in honour of your little one to display along the memorial pathway at the 2026 No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk. This free workshop includes all supplies needed to create a meaningful tribute.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

When profound loss enters our story, it affects not just our hearts, but our physiology. This session explores the neurological responses to trauma and grief. By understanding the physical "fog" of grief, participants can externalize these responses—viewing them as natural reactions rather than personal failings—and discover gentle, grounding ways to navigate their daily lives.

Create a personalized memorial flag in honour of your little one to display along the memorial pathway at the 2026 No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk. This free workshop includes all supplies needed to create a meaningful tribute.

Join us for a delightful afternoon filled with creativity and meaningful connection at the Empty Arms office in Saskatoon, featuring the talented Sierra Banwarth.

No prior experience is necessary. All materials and supplies provided, ensuring everyone can fully engage in the creative process. By the end of the afternoon you’ll leave with an amazing piece of art, a newfound sense of community, and plenty of cherished memories to share with friends and family.

Space is limited. Sign up soon!

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

Partners often process the same loss through very different personal narratives. This session explores how couples can navigate their unique grieving timelines while maintaining connection. Counsellors will guide discussions on honoring individual processing styles, fostering mutual understanding, and co-authoring a shared story of survival and love.

Join us for the 2026 No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk as we come together to remember babies and children gone too soon, surround their families with love, and walk for all the footprints they never got the chance to make.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Naming My Big Feelings

This session focuses on identifying and expressing the many emotions that can accompany sibling loss. Participants may experience sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, loneliness, fear, relief, or even moments of happiness, sometimes all within the same day. Through discussion and activities, participants learn to recognize and name their feelings, understand that difficult emotions are a normal part of grief, and develop healthy ways to express and cope with them.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Naming My Big Feelings

This session focuses on identifying and expressing the many emotions that can accompany sibling loss. Participants may experience sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, loneliness, fear, relief, or even moments of happiness, sometimes all within the same day. Through discussion and activities, participants learn to recognize and name their feelings, understand that difficult emotions are a normal part of grief, and develop healthy ways to express and cope with them.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Naming My Big Feelings

This session focuses on identifying and expressing the many emotions that can accompany sibling loss. Participants may experience sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, loneliness, fear, relief, or even moments of happiness, sometimes all within the same day. Through discussion and activities, participants learn to recognize and name their feelings, understand that difficult emotions are a normal part of grief, and develop healthy ways to express and cope with them.

In-person and virtual peer support meetings held for parents who are navigating the profound and heartbreaking experience of the death of a child between birth and the age of 17. These gatherings provide a safe space where individuals can share their feelings, experiences, and challenges with others who truly understand their loss.

Expecting After Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for individuals who are pregnant or trying to conceive after pregnancy, infant, or child loss. This space recognizes the emotional complexity of expecting after loss. For many, this journey is not only filled with hope, but also with fear, anxiety, and deep vulnerability. It can be a time of constant wondering, heightened awareness, and holding your breath through each stage of pregnancy or the waiting that comes before it.

Join us for a welcoming evening of beading, bannock, tea, storytelling, and connection at Empty Arms in Riversdale.

Guided by facilitators and an Elder, each monthly gathering will feature a simple beading project alongside opportunities to learn, share, and connect through cultural teachings and traditional practices.

These gatherings are free and open to everyone — First Nations, Métis, and non-Indigenous community members alike. No connection to Empty Arms or experience with pregnancy or infant loss is required.

All supplies are provided. No beading experience necessary. Come as you are, learn something new, and spend an afternoon in community.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Remembering My Sibling

This session provides an opportunity for participants to celebrate and remember the sibling they have lost. Participants can share memories, stories, photographs, meaningful objects, traditions, or special qualities they remember about their sibling. The focus is on honouring the sibling’s life and exploring how memories can help maintain a continuing connection while moving through grief. This session will ensure to include subsequent children in a meaningful way encouraging celebrations and remembrance of stories and imagined lives.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Remembering My Sibling

This session provides an opportunity for participants to celebrate and remember the sibling they have lost. Participants can share memories, stories, photographs, meaningful objects, traditions, or special qualities they remember about their sibling. The focus is on honouring the sibling’s life and exploring how memories can help maintain a continuing connection while moving through grief. This session will ensure to include subsequent children in a meaningful way encouraging celebrations and remembrance of stories and imagined lives.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Remembering My Sibling

This session provides an opportunity for participants to celebrate and remember the sibling they have lost. Participants can share memories, stories, photographs, meaningful objects, traditions, or special qualities they remember about their sibling. The focus is on honouring the sibling’s life and exploring how memories can help maintain a continuing connection while moving through grief. This session will ensure to include subsequent children in a meaningful way encouraging celebrations and remembrance of stories and imagined lives.

A welcoming community playgroup where children can play, create, and connect with peers who understand, while parents enjoy a relaxed morning of conversation, community, and support with other families who have experienced pregnancy, infant, or child loss.

*There is no cost to attend

In-person and virtual peer support specifically for parents who have experienced a loss of their babies due to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), or neonatal death. This supportive environment provides a space for individuals to connect with others who share similar experiences and emotions, fostering understanding and healing.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

Partners often process the same loss through very different personal narratives. This session explores how couples can navigate their unique grieving timelines while maintaining connection. Counsellors will guide discussions on honoring individual processing styles, fostering mutual understanding, and co-authoring a shared story of survival and love.

Join us for a delightful afternoon filled with creativity and meaningful connection at the Empty Arms office in Saskatoon, featuring the talented Sierra Banwarth.

No prior experience is necessary. All materials and supplies provided, ensuring everyone can fully engage in the creative process. By the end of the afternoon you’ll leave with an amazing piece of art, a newfound sense of community, and plenty of cherished memories to share with friends and family.

Space is limited. Sign up soon!

Holding It All: Parenting Through Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for parents navigating life after pregnancy, infant, or child loss while raising their children.

In this space, we acknowledge all of your children — the ones you carry in your arms and the ones you carry in your heart. There is no expectation to “move on” or separate your grief from your parenting. Instead, we make room for both.

In-person + virtual meetings designed to provide gentle and compassionate support for parents who have experienced the heartache of early pregnancy loss. These gatherings offer a safe space for individuals to connect with others who understand their grief and emotional journey.

Expecting After Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for individuals who are pregnant or trying to conceive after pregnancy, infant, or child loss. This space recognizes the emotional complexity of expecting after loss. For many, this journey is not only filled with hope, but also with fear, anxiety, and deep vulnerability. It can be a time of constant wondering, heightened awareness, and holding your breath through each stage of pregnancy or the waiting that comes before it.

Join us for a welcoming evening of beading, bannock, tea, storytelling, and connection at Empty Arms in Riversdale.

Guided by facilitators and an Elder, each monthly gathering will feature a simple beading project alongside opportunities to learn, share, and connect through cultural teachings and traditional practices.

These gatherings are free and open to everyone — First Nations, Métis, and non-Indigenous community members alike. No connection to Empty Arms or experience with pregnancy or infant loss is required.

All supplies are provided. No beading experience necessary. Come as you are, learn something new, and spend an afternoon in community.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

Society often imposes rigid storylines on how men "should" respond to loss. This dedicated space invites grieving fathers and men to deconstruct these dominant societal expectations. Participants will explore their own unique processing styles and find supportive, authentic ways to express their grief and ongoing connection to their child.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Creating Rituals

This session explores the role of rituals and meaningful activities in coping with loss. Participants learn how rituals can provide comfort, create opportunities for remembrance, and help mark important dates or transitions. The group may explore existing family traditions or create personal rituals that honour their sibling, such as lighting a candle, visiting a meaningful place, creating a memory box, listening to a favourite song, or participating in an activity their sibling enjoyed. Together we will create a grief ritual individuals can take home.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Creating Rituals

This session explores the role of rituals and meaningful activities in coping with loss. Participants learn how rituals can provide comfort, create opportunities for remembrance, and help mark important dates or transitions. The group may explore existing family traditions or create personal rituals that honour their sibling, such as lighting a candle, visiting a meaningful place, creating a memory box, listening to a favourite song, or participating in an activity their sibling enjoyed. Together we will create a grief ritual individuals can take home.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Creating Rituals

This session explores the role of rituals and meaningful activities in coping with loss. Participants learn how rituals can provide comfort, create opportunities for remembrance, and help mark important dates or transitions. The group may explore existing family traditions or create personal rituals that honour their sibling, such as lighting a candle, visiting a meaningful place, creating a memory box, listening to a favourite song, or participating in an activity their sibling enjoyed. Together we will create a grief ritual individuals can take home.

In-person and virtual peer support meetings held for parents who are navigating the profound and heartbreaking experience of the death of a child between birth and the age of 17. These gatherings provide a safe space where individuals can share their feelings, experiences, and challenges with others who truly understand their loss.

Join us for a delightful afternoon filled with creativity and meaningful connection at the Empty Arms office in Saskatoon, featuring the talented Sierra Banwarth.

No prior experience is necessary. All materials and supplies provided, ensuring everyone can fully engage in the creative process. By the end of the afternoon you’ll leave with an amazing piece of art, a newfound sense of community, and plenty of cherished memories to share with friends and family.

Space is limited. Sign up soon!

In-person and virtual peer support specifically for parents who have experienced a loss of their babies due to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), or neonatal death. This supportive environment provides a space for individuals to connect with others who share similar experiences and emotions, fostering understanding and healing.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

Society often imposes rigid storylines on how men "should" respond to loss. This dedicated space invites grieving fathers and men to deconstruct these dominant societal expectations. Participants will explore their own unique processing styles and find supportive, authentic ways to express their grief and ongoing connection to their child.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

My Changed Family

The loss of a sibling can change family relationships and the way family members communicate, support one another, and experience grief. This session explores how each person may grieve differently and how those differences can sometimes create misunderstanding or distance. Participants are encouraged to identify changes within their family, consider what support they need, and explore healthy ways to communicate their feelings and needs.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

My Changed Family

The loss of a sibling can change family relationships and the way family members communicate, support one another, and experience grief. This session explores how each person may grieve differently and how those differences can sometimes create misunderstanding or distance. Participants are encouraged to identify changes within their family, consider what support they need, and explore healthy ways to communicate their feelings and needs.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

My Changed Family

The loss of a sibling can change family relationships and the way family members communicate, support one another, and experience grief. This session explores how each person may grieve differently and how those differences can sometimes create misunderstanding or distance. Participants are encouraged to identify changes within their family, consider what support they need, and explore healthy ways to communicate their feelings and needs.

A welcoming community playgroup where children can play, create, and connect with peers who understand, while parents enjoy a relaxed morning of conversation, community, and support with other families who have experienced pregnancy, infant, or child loss.

*There is no cost to attend

Holding It All: Parenting Through Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for parents navigating life after pregnancy, infant, or child loss while raising their children.

In this space, we acknowledge all of your children — the ones you carry in your arms and the ones you carry in your heart. There is no expectation to “move on” or separate your grief from your parenting. Instead, we make room for both.

In-person + virtual meetings designed to provide gentle and compassionate support for parents who have experienced the heartache of early pregnancy loss. These gatherings offer a safe space for individuals to connect with others who understand their grief and emotional journey.

Expecting After Loss is a support group through Empty Arms for individuals who are pregnant or trying to conceive after pregnancy, infant, or child loss. This space recognizes the emotional complexity of expecting after loss. For many, this journey is not only filled with hope, but also with fear, anxiety, and deep vulnerability. It can be a time of constant wondering, heightened awareness, and holding your breath through each stage of pregnancy or the waiting that comes before it.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

In narrative therapy, grief is not about "moving on" or severing ties, but rather finding new ways of "saying hullo again." As the holidays approach, this session explores how to actively honor and integrate the memory of a baby or child into the present. Participants will discuss how to create meaningful personal rituals that foster "continuing bonds" and redefine what healthy grieving looks like for them.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Coping & Moving Forward

This session focuses on developing healthy coping strategies for managing grief in everyday life. Participants explore what helps them when grief feels especially strong and identify supportive people, activities, routines, and resources they can turn to. The group also discusses the idea that moving forward does not mean forgetting or “moving on” from their sibling. Instead, participants explore how grief and love for their sibling can remain part of their lives while they continue growing and finding moments of meaning, connection, and hope.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Coping & Moving Forward

This session focuses on developing healthy coping strategies for managing grief in everyday life. Participants explore what helps them when grief feels especially strong and identify supportive people, activities, routines, and resources they can turn to. The group also discusses the idea that moving forward does not mean forgetting or “moving on” from their sibling. Instead, participants explore how grief and love for their sibling can remain part of their lives while they continue growing and finding moments of meaning, connection, and hope.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Coping & Moving Forward

This session focuses on developing healthy coping strategies for managing grief in everyday life. Participants explore what helps them when grief feels especially strong and identify supportive people, activities, routines, and resources they can turn to. The group also discusses the idea that moving forward does not mean forgetting or “moving on” from their sibling. Instead, participants explore how grief and love for their sibling can remain part of their lives while they continue growing and finding moments of meaning, connection, and hope.

Join us for a welcoming evening of beading, bannock, tea, storytelling, and connection at Empty Arms in Riversdale.

Guided by facilitators and an Elder, each monthly gathering will feature a simple beading project alongside opportunities to learn, share, and connect through cultural teachings and traditional practices.

These gatherings are free and open to everyone — First Nations, Métis, and non-Indigenous community members alike. No connection to Empty Arms or experience with pregnancy or infant loss is required.

All supplies are provided. No beading experience necessary. Come as you are, learn something new, and spend an afternoon in community.

Join us for a delightful afternoon filled with creativity and meaningful connection at the Empty Arms office in Saskatoon, featuring the talented Sierra Banwarth.

No prior experience is necessary. All materials and supplies provided, ensuring everyone can fully engage in the creative process. By the end of the afternoon you’ll leave with an amazing piece of art, a newfound sense of community, and plenty of cherished memories to share with friends and family.

Space is limited. Sign up soon!

In-person and virtual peer support meetings held for parents who are navigating the profound and heartbreaking experience of the death of a child between birth and the age of 17. These gatherings provide a safe space where individuals can share their feelings, experiences, and challenges with others who truly understand their loss.

In-person and virtual peer support specifically for parents who have experienced a loss of their babies due to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), or neonatal death. This supportive environment provides a space for individuals to connect with others who share similar experiences and emotions, fostering understanding and healing.

Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting

In narrative therapy, grief is not about "moving on" or severing ties, but rather finding new ways of "saying hullo again." As the holidays approach, this session explores how to actively honor and integrate the memory of a baby or child into the present. Participants will discuss how to create meaningful personal rituals that foster "continuing bonds" and redefine what healthy grieving looks like for them.

Designed for our youngest siblings, this group gently introduces big feelings through stories, play, creative activities, and simple conversations in a safe and welcoming space.

Wrap-Up & Continued Support

The final session provides an opportunity to reflect on the group experience, recognize personal growth, and acknowledge the ongoing nature of grief. Participants can share what they have learned about themselves, their grief, and their sibling. The session emphasizes that the end of the group does not mean the end of support. Participants identify ongoing sources of support and coping strategies they can continue using, while recognizing that grief may resurface at different times throughout life. The group closes by honouring each participant’s journey and the unique relationship they shared with their sibling.

A welcoming space where kids can ask questions, share their experiences, remember their sibling, and discover they're not alone through creative activities, games, and meaningful conversations.

Wrap-Up & Continued Support

The final session provides an opportunity to reflect on the group experience, recognize personal growth, and acknowledge the ongoing nature of grief. Participants can share what they have learned about themselves, their grief, and their sibling. The session emphasizes that the end of the group does not mean the end of support. Participants identify ongoing sources of support and coping strategies they can continue using, while recognizing that grief may resurface at different times throughout life. The group closes by honouring each participant’s journey and the unique relationship they shared with their sibling.

Designed for youth ages 11–14, Together Tweens offers a supportive space to explore grief, navigate life's changes, build healthy coping skills, and connect with peers who truly understand.

Wrap-Up & Continued Support

The final session provides an opportunity to reflect on the group experience, recognize personal growth, and acknowledge the ongoing nature of grief. Participants can share what they have learned about themselves, their grief, and their sibling. The session emphasizes that the end of the group does not mean the end of support. Participants identify ongoing sources of support and coping strategies they can continue using, while recognizing that grief may resurface at different times throughout life. The group closes by honouring each participant’s journey and the unique relationship they shared with their sibling.