Educational advice for coping with loss and resolution of grief: VIVER®, proposes new method of research and action in the field of thanatology and grief psychology through systematic meetings, group in which the intervention takes place under the simultaneous care professionals of thanatology and psychology.

To present the principles that underlie the research typology and grief subject, its implications in the grieving process and the service to the mourning proposed by VIVER® assistance.

Thanatological hermeneutics and literature review were used to develop this work.

The educational assistance VIVER® offers a useful tool in the care of the mourning by the method, created by Färber and Färber, composed of two pillars: the presentation of educational content about loss and grief, and artistic, playful and expressive experiences.

The work on operational groups listening and intervention assists the development of losses and reinterpretation of the history of the participants.

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.