Dina Bell-Laroche

Dina Bell-Laroche

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ottawa, Ontario

Business Leader & Leadership Coach | Expert In Designing Healthy Culture & Mitigating risk

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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

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Grief Unleashed | Rogers tv
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Podcast

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Transcript: Player's Own Voice podcast with Dina Bell-Laroche

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COACHES RISING

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The Wisdom of Grief

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Meander with Dina Bell-Laroche

Dina Bell-Laroche Related Content

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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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Ottawa woman honours sister's memory by building a school in Nicaragua

Ottawa citizen

How else would anyone explain why Bell-Laroche — a highly successful partner in Sport Law & Strategy Group — finds herself preparing to spend 10 days in one of the poorest parts of the second poorest country in Latin America, where 46.2 per cent of the population live on just over $2 a day?
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WALKER: Channelling grief into something positive

Ottawa Sun

Dina has been an amazing ambassador for SchoolBOX over the past seven years,” SchoolBOX executive director Jon Tam said. “She has worked tirelessly to build two schools, so far, and deliver a library in Nicaragua — all in memory of her sister, Tracy. Through her work, she has directly helped more than 415 kids get an education. Dina has found a profound way to channel her grief and in turn change the reality of children in our partner communities.
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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 Abcs 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’s presentation on grief and loss literacy was engaging, informative, and supportive to frontline professionals who deal with grief both professionally and personally.  Her exploration of self-care as an ethical imperative, how we can be disenfranchised grievers when wearing our professional hats, and how to think about grief in ways that can be more supportive to ourselves and clients (in a society that often can be dismissive), offered new perspectives and important food for thought on these topics. I would recommend it to all my colleagues. 

Carlie Graef (She/Her) from Hospice Yukon 

Like fish who don’t see water because they live in it, we all live in our experience of grief. A little distance from my experience, backed by some learning from Dina Bell-Laroche about how grief manifests in my life, has been illuminating for my own self-development and self-understanding. Dina Bell-Laroche is a gentle presence, and her knowledge can help us all. As she often says: Grief work, works! This s not just words, it has also been my experience. 

Trudy Chapman

Leadership Coach 

Exploring this space with Dina Bell-Laroche was an honor and a gift.  Dina Bell-Laroche has a unique and differentiated way of simultaneously leading and walking besides, sitting with you in everything so you never feel alone.  There’s no one I’d rather companion me on this journey.  Thanks to Dina Bell-Laroche and Grief Unleashed, I’ve seen the depths of my grief and the heights of my joy, opening myself to the idea of a fully lived life. Thanks to Dina Bell-Laroche, I’ve finally surrendered to the notion that grief is beautiful and healthy and all around us, a shared experience and shared language I can use if I simply shed the fear and allow it in.

Whitney Schmiesing

Google Account Executive

Dina Bell-Laroche, just thanks for helping me. The light shone through just a crack and with that light a bit of happiness, something that had been missing for a long time. I have promised myself to be kinder and gentler to myself and to listen, hear others grief. There is so much grief in my world of sports. There is so much work still to be done.

High Performance Sport Coach

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