Online Learning
Self-paced courses built from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s own books, recordings, and workshops, taught by the Foundation and by people who worked beside her. Available worldwide, with lifetime access.
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On Death and Dying
The book that changed how the world talks about dying, taught chapter by chapter. Learn what Dr. Kübler-Ross’s patients taught her, how the model developed, and how it holds up against the challenges of today’s medicine. For clinicians, chaplains, nurses, death doulas, students, and readers of the book.
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The Five Stages of Grief®
Most people think they already know the Five Stages. Go back to the source: four stages first published in 1968, ten overlapping responses on her chart in On Death and Dying, and why five became the number the world remembered.
The Kübler-Ross Change Curve®
Loss and change through Elisabeth’s original work: how her model grew beyond dying patients to families, organizations, and major life transitions, and why change cannot be reduced to a simple sequence.
Kübler-Ross: The Patient as the Teacher
Her simple, radical principle: the patient is the teacher. Learn to listen without imposing, learn from the person in front of you, and let patients and families guide the encounter.
The 4 Quadrants
Her map of the whole person: physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. See where a patient or mourner is being cared for, and where they are being missed.
Unfinished Business
The concept she returned to more than any other: the unspoken words, unresolved conflicts, and unlived parts of life that surface at the end, and how to help people complete them while there is still time.
Kübler-Ross on Symbolic Language: The Verbal Language of the Dying
When dying patients cannot say it plainly, they say it another way. Learn to recognize symbolic language and answer inside the symbol, including a real exchange in her own words from 1974.
Kübler-Ross on Symbolic Language: The Nonverbal Language of the Dying
What the dying and children show us when they cannot say it directly: through the body, silence, objects, play, and drawings, and how to respond without forcing meaning onto what you see.
The Universal Laws of Kübler-Ross
The principles she taught in her Life, Death, and Transition workshops, drawn from the material of workshop leader Larry Lincoln. For workshop alumni and anyone seeking her broader teaching.
Kübler-Ross for Funeral and Cemetery Professionals
For professionals who meet families at one of the most intense moments of their lives: recognizing grief, fear, anger, and unfinished business, and supporting the family in front of you without a formula or checklist.
Grief and Bereavement in Childhood
How children understand death at each age, how their grief differs from adult grief, and how to support a grieving child at home, at school, and in care settings.
The Trauma of Loss
An introduction to grief for everyone: seventeen short lessons on what loss does to a person and what actually helps, grounded in Dr. Kübler-Ross’s work.
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Introduction to Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Her life and work, told with firsthand recollections from her family and the people who worked beside her.
Listening to the Dying
Her interview method: how she got patients to speak, what she did with silence, and what she learned to hear.
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Community Outreach
The Foundation also offers live events on grief, loss, and Dr. Kübler-Ross’s work, led by Susan Barber, our Community Outreach Manager. Talks, workshops, and community gatherings, online and in person, open to everyone.
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Rooted in Elisabeth’s Original Work
Our online courses are created from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s own books, recordings, and workshops, and taught by the Foundation, her colleagues, and people who worked directly with her.