Dina Bell-Laroche

Dina Bell-Laroche

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ottawa, Ontario

Business Leader & Leadership Coach | Designing Healthy Cultures | Grief & Loss Literacy

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    • Business & Corporate
    • Business Growth
    • Leadership
    • Personal Leadership
    • Women's Leadership
    • Innovation & Creativity
    • Leadership Development
    • Peak Performance
    • Health & Wellness

    DINA BELL-LAROCHE BIOGRAPHY

    Dina Bell-Laroche’s life changed dramatically in 2001 after the death of her youngest sister Tracy. Since then, her journey through grief has inspired her to advocate for a humanistic approach to grief and loss.  As a death educator, Certified Thanatologist (CT), grief doula, keynote speaker, and published author, Dina Bell-Laroche’s commitment to help the bereaved re-imagine a new relationship with loss is unwavering. She activates this through trainings, workshops, speaking engagements, Grief Cafés, her weekly newsletter called The Grieving Place, and her book Grief Unleashed: Moving from the hole in our hearts to whole-hearted (2023).

    Dina Bell-Laroche completed a cross-country tour over 2023-24, hosting Grief Cafés, book signings and educational workshop to enhance the grief and loss literacy of hospice workers, caregivers, and helping professionals. Dina Bell-Laroche brings a hope-filled perspective to a topic that is too often dismissed, inviting participants to understand and honour their grief. Dina Bell-Laroche volunteers her time with Bereaved Families of Ottawa, Hospice Care Ottawa, Bridge C-14 and the Ottawa Cancer Foundation, bringing hope to the bereaved and the broken-hearted.

    Dina Bell-Laroche has held several senior leadership positions through her three decades in Canada’s high-performance sport sector including the Equestrian Canada, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee, and the True Sport Secretariat. Since 2010, Dina has served as a co-Partner of Sport Law, a company that provides legal and leadership support to sport organizations from playground to podium. Dina Bell-Laroche is a certified Integral Master CoachTM and is an accredited Professional Coach in good standing with the International Coaching Federation. In 2019, she enrolled as a thanatology student at King’s University College (University of Western Ontario) where she continues to immerse herself in topics related to social justice, trauma, children and adolescent loss, ethical issues in thanatology, and so much more. Throughout her extensive journey, she has discovered many gems that she is inspired to share with others including building classrooms in Nicaragua, and more recently in Northern Ontario on Treaty 3, in honour of her deceased sister. More recently, she is collaborating with the Ottawa Cancer Foundation to bring the first Wind Phone to Ottawa, a way to provide solace to the bereaved and honour the memory of her deceased father.

    Dina’s knowledge runs deep. Her teachings are wise. Her practical way of demystifying a taboo topic will leave you feeling more resourced and less isolated. Her hope is to inspire a healthier way for people to re-imagine a new relationship with loss.

    Dina Bell-Laroche Related Media

    Media Interview

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    Grief Unleashed | Rogers tv
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    Dina Bell-Laroche Related Content

    Articles & Magazine Feature

    Grief Unleashed by Dina Bell-Laroche about facing the pain

    NNSL

    Dina Bell-Laroche’s new book, Grief Unleashed, was inspired by her own experience of losing her sister, Tracy, to cancer 22 years ago. She said that for the first decade after her sister Tracy’s death, she was busy raising her children and growing her career, and did not give herself enough time to grieve. It was only later that she started to immerse herself in what had happened to her by reading her mother’s journals and going back to school to study grief and loss.
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    Dina Bell-Laroche Topic Presentations

    Let’s Talk About Grief: What Leaders Need to Know

    Stop Making My Grief A Problem to Fix: Learning How to Walk Alongside the Bereaved and the Broken-hearted

    From Death Denying to Life Affirming: Learning the A B Cs and 123 of Grief and Loss Literacy

    Dina Bell-Laroche Speaking Testimonials

    Having the language to make sense of the complexity of sports and life is a powerful tool. Dina Bell-Laroche has helped me understand the mechanics of grief, which has allowed me to process some of the negative moments I’ve experienced throughout my career in sports.

    Mark de Jonge

    Retired Olympian

    Dina Bell-Laroche Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Dina Bell-Laroche Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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