Speaking from Experience.
Guided by Purpose.
AmarAtma Singh Khalsa speaks to the heart of what it means to live, love, and grieve in a world that rarely teaches us how.
His talks blend real-world experience, spiritual wisdom, clinical insight, and embodied practice — offering both inspiration and practical tools for individuals, professionals, and communities.
Grief Literacy & Emotional Education
Compassionate Leadership
Healing, Wholeness & Inner Resilience
Caregiving, Healthcare & Community
Spirituality, Meaning & Human Connection
Four talks, shaped to your audience.
Each talk can be delivered as a keynote, an extended workshop, or a facilitated session — and is adapted to the language, pressures, and realities of the room.
The Tender Art of Grieving
Why grief is not a problem to be solved, and what changes when we stop trying to fix it. The signature talk drawn from AmarAtma's book and ten years at the bedside.
Staying Steady in Hard Moments
How to stay regulated, present, and steady when emotion runs high — in a hard conversation, a crisis, or a room full of grief. Practical tools drawn from clinical training and contemplative practice.
Leading Through Change
What leaders owe their people during change, restructuring, illness, and death — and how compassionate presence becomes an organizational capability rather than a personal talent.
Toward Wholeness
An experiential session on integrating the parts of a life that loss has scattered — body, identity, relationship, and meaning. Includes guided practice and small-group dialogue.
Rooted in Practice.
Speaking from the Heart.
With more than fifteen years as a hospital chaplain, educator, and healer, AmarAtma brings a rare depth and authenticity to every stage he steps onto. He has accompanied thousands through loss, illness, transition, and the in-between spaces that are so often overlooked.
Whether speaking to healthcare professionals, organizations, academic institutions, or community groups, AmarAtma invites audiences to move from understanding to embodiment, and from inspiration to meaningful action.
Toward Wholeness: Tending the Hidden Grief of Unacknowledged Losses
Spiritual Lives of Leaders
Grieving as Grounding and Transforming
Diverse Audiences
Single talks that open a conference or set the tone for a gathering.
Experiential sessions with practice, reflection, and dialogue.
Conversation formats, podcasts, and moderated discussions.
Author of The Tender Art of Grieving (Shambhala, September 2026). Board Certified Chaplain. Founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving.
What to know before you reach out.
Keynotes (45–60 min), half- and full-day workshops, multi-session training, panels, podcasts, and fireside conversations.
Based in [City, State] and available to travel domestically and internationally. Virtual sessions welcome for teams and distributed organizations.
Speaking fees vary by format, length, travel, and audience size. Reduced rates are available for nonprofits, hospices, and educational institutions. Share your details and you'll receive a range.
Six to eight weeks is ideal. Earlier inquiries are welcome for conference calendars and annual programs.
A pre-event call to tailor the talk, promotional copy and headshots for your channels, and moderated Q&A.
Bulk copies of The Tender Art of Grieving and signings can be arranged alongside any event.
Bring depth, compassion, and meaningful conversation to your next event.
Available for keynotes, workshops, panels, and podcasts.
Speaking from Experience.
Guided by Purpose.
AmarAtma Singh Khalsa speaks to the heart of what it means to live, love, and grieve in a world that rarely teaches us how.
His talks blend real-world experience, spiritual wisdom, clinical insight, and embodied practice — offering both inspiration and practical tools for individuals, professionals, and communities.
Grief Literacy & Emotional Education
Compassionate Leadership
Healing, Wholeness & Inner Resilience
Caregiving, Healthcare & Community
Spirituality, Meaning & Human Connection
Four talks, shaped to your audience.
Each talk can be delivered as a keynote, an extended workshop, or a facilitated session — and is adapted to the language, pressures, and realities of the room.
The Tender Art of Grieving
Why grief is not a problem to be solved, and what changes when we stop trying to fix it. The signature talk drawn from AmarAtma's book and ten years at the bedside.
Staying Steady in Hard Moments
How to stay regulated, present, and steady when emotion runs high — in a hard conversation, a crisis, or a room full of grief. Practical tools drawn from clinical training and contemplative practice.
Leading Through Change
What leaders owe their people during change, restructuring, illness, and death — and how compassionate presence becomes an organizational capability rather than a personal talent.
Toward Wholeness
An experiential session on integrating the parts of a life that loss has scattered — body, identity, relationship, and meaning. Includes guided practice and small-group dialogue.
Rooted in Practice.
Speaking from the Heart.
With more than ten years as a hospital chaplain, educator, and healer, AmarAtma brings a rare depth and authenticity to every stage he steps onto. He has accompanied thousands through loss, illness, transition, and the in-between spaces that are so often overlooked.
Whether speaking to healthcare professionals, organizations, academic institutions, or community groups, AmarAtma invites audiences to move from understanding to embodiment, and from inspiration to meaningful action.
Toward Wholeness: Tending the Hidden Grief of Unacknowledged Losses
Spiritual Lives of Leaders
Grieving as Grounding and Transforming
Diverse Audiences
Single talks that open a conference or set the tone for a gathering.
Experiential sessions with practice, reflection, and dialogue.
Conversation formats, podcasts, and moderated discussions.
Author of The Tender Art of Grieving (Shambhala, September 2026). Board Certified Chaplain. Founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving.
What to know before you reach out.
Keynotes (45–60 min), half- and full-day workshops, multi-session training, panels, podcasts, and fireside conversations.
Based in [City, State] and available to travel domestically and internationally. Virtual sessions welcome for teams and distributed organizations.
Speaking fees vary by format, length, travel, and audience size. Reduced rates are available for nonprofits, hospices, and educational institutions. Share your details and you'll receive a range.
Six to eight weeks is ideal. Earlier inquiries are welcome for conference calendars and annual programs.
A pre-event call to tailor the talk, promotional copy and headshots for your channels, and moderated Q&A.
Bulk copies of The Tender Art of Grieving and signings can be arranged alongside any event.
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Available for keynotes, workshops, panels, and podcasts.
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AmarAtma Singh Khalsa is a grief specialist, educator, Board Certified Chaplain, and founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving. A Harvard Divinity School graduate with a Master’s in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, he brings fifteen years of experience supporting people through grief, loss, and life transitions. Reaching a global community of 350,000+, he created the Compassionate Grieving Model and authored The Tender Art of Grieving (Shambhala, 2026).
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AmarAtma Singh Khalsa is a grief specialist, educator, Board Certified Chaplain, and founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School with a Master’s in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, he brings more than fifteen years of experience accompanying individuals, families, healthcare professionals, and communities through grief, loss, and life transitions. His work integrates spiritual care, somatic practices, contemplative wisdom, and grief literacy, reaching a global online community of more than 350,000 people. AmarAtma is the creator of the Compassionate Grieving Model, an embodied approach that expands how we understand and respond to loss, including the many losses that often go unnamed or unrecognized. He is the author of The Tender Art of Grieving (Shambhala, 2026), which offers practices for meeting grief with greater compassion, presence, connection, and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.