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When offering groups to support the processes of loss and grieving we have to be aware that the cause of death and the relationships and age of those involved have consequences for the grieving process. It is important to take this into account when offering such groups. Therapeutic groups work with agreed aims and with predictable structures, such as time boundaries. These groups offer a possibility for integrating the loss and grief in participants’ lives and a step-by-step guide to acceptance of the loss and to finding meaning for life in the future. Other groups are often offered by public agencies and are led by professionals with some competence with grieving processes, group processes and grief- and trauma-reactions. Some open groups are run by leaders who have their own experience of loss under similar conditions. When newcomers share their experience this might reactivate experiences for those who have been in the group for a while and thereby prevent progress in their own lives. Those bereaved after suicide need to be together with others with the same experience. They have some extra dimensions in their grieving process since it is often combined with guilt – shame – and reconciliation. Those who have been bereaved as a result of violence, experience some of the same dynamics. In this article there are also examples of interventions like offering school classes to share experiences about loss and grieving and collective gatherings after severe accidents. Such interventions may also be defined as interventions that work with grieving processes.

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