- Are you a professional who wants real, innovative, effective techniques to work with your clients’ grief around death, divorce, and loss of identity and social interaction
- Do you want to learn how to create a safe container for your clients to move through grief in their own unique way?
- Do you want to be able to advocate for your clients and empower them to advocate for themselves as they navigate grief and the mourning process?
- Do you want to feel prepared, confident, and empowered when it comes to supporting your clients through the grief process with methods backed by years of research and proven to work?
- Are you tired of protocols that don’t honor each clients’ unique, individual needs as they heal?
- Do you want to benefit from experienced answers to all of your questions about working with grief?
For Those Grieving
- Do you desperately wish that there was a safe way to heal from your loss of a loved one, your partner, your pet, a job, or friends without losing yourself in it?
- Have you ever thought you were “over it”, only to have big, painful emotions triggered in times of stress, or even somewhere completely unexpected?
- Have you Googled “the stages of grief” just to find a bunch of impersonal definitions and jargon that didn’t feel like it applied to you?
- Do you sometimes feel disconnected from the other people in your life because of your grief?
- Do you want tools that actually work to lessen your pain, but are still unique to you and your personal experience?
- Do you long for a way to move forward and still honoring your loved one?
In this powerful workshop, you’ll learn:
- How to identify and bring awareness to your own losses that have not been processed and that could interfere with you facilitating the mourning process in clients
- How to identify your losses or the losses of clients that have not been processed and are keeping them stuck in their lives
- What specific aspects of loss need to be dealt with for the greatest healing impact
- How loss causes instability and dysregulation and how to create a safe, stable container to explore and ultimately heal the chaos caused by loss
- The necessary components of the mourning process for healing to occur
- Emotions that arise in the grieving process and how to deal with them: Pain, anger, hostility, sadness, tears, blame helplessness.
- How to transform grief from a negative to a positive.
- The importance of mourning rituals and how to co-create unique rituals for yourself or your clients
- The important differences between men and women in the grieving process
- Specific exercises that facilitate healing through the grieving process
- How to be stay present during the mourning process.
- How to be prepared for occasional relapses
The most important thing you can know right now is that no matter how overwhelming and intense grief and pain can seem, it is possible to have ways to process your loss in measured, effective, and transformative ways.
When we don’t process the difficult feelings associated with loss and grief, those losses eventually turn into Post Traumatic Stress! What we process and come to peace with in the present moment determines our future. This workshop will teach you safer, more effective ways to process your loss– whether it be the death of a loved one, loss of a relationship, loss of identity, or just the sheer amount of loss we’ve all faced over the past year and a half.