Bradley Vinson

I’m Bradley Vinson — a grief educator, chaplain (fire, police, and emergency response), speaker, and trainer.

My work is shaped by both lived experience and years of walking with people through some of life’s hardest moments. In 2016, my 4-year-old granddaughter, Alanna, died in a tragic accident. That loss changed my life — and revealed how under-equipped families, churches, schools, and workplaces often are when grief shows up.

Since then, my work has focused on two sides of the same reality:

• Helping individuals and families navigate their own grief in healthy, honest ways

• Helping leaders, teams, and organizations learn how to respond well when grief, loss, or crisis impacts their people

I’m the creator of the GRIEVE Method and the HELP Method — practical frameworks used to guide both personal healing and grief-informed care for others.

I regularly speak and train on topics including:

• How grief shows up in everyday life and work
• What to say (and not say) when someone is hurting
• How leaders and teams can support people without causing more harm
• Men’s grief, couples’ grief, child loss, and family systems
• Grief care, chaplaincy, and crisis response

In addition to my speaking and training work, I serve as a Fire and Police Chaplain. I am trained in areas including Critical Incident Stress Management, suicide prevention, and crisis response.

Whether the audience is grieving personally or responsible for supporting others, my focus is always the same:

Helping people respond to grief with presence, clarity, and compassion — not confusion or avoidance.

I work with:

• Individuals and families navigating loss

• Churches and faith-based organizations

• Schools and nonprofits

• Leaders, managers, and teams in workplaces who want to be better prepared for grief, loss, and crisis