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Moving our Minds and Bodies Through Grief: Experiential Techniques to Facilitate Healing from Loss

Broken-hearted, bereaved clients just want the pain to stop, and they often expect their therapist to have a map to find their healing. Although everyone’s loss and pain are unique, this session offers tools and techniques to help your clients normalize the grief experience and move toward healing the mind and body. You’ll have an opportunity to experience these techniques for yourself, many of which can be done in the chair so it can easily be translated into your practice. You’ll discover how to help clients:

Learn the keys to finding acceptance, excavating pain, and exploring meaning after loss
Use their mind and body to transform anger and fear, two common responses to loss, into fuel for healing
Tap into a source of resilience through cognitive awareness, flexibility, and intentional body movements
Address guilt, shame, and stigma associated with grief by understanding how the mind finds control in guilt, isolates in shame, and can release stigma though movement

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Objectives

Evaluate techniques for using meaning to help clients resolve the internal struggle of “why did this happen and why to me?” and to move from “Why” to “How” can I move forward.
Develop and use tools for helping our clients address trauma, grief and the traumatic moment.
Assess how all losses impact one’s life, from death, divorce, job loss and the pandemic.
Utilize techniques on how to release grief that has become stuck in our body.

Copyright : 16/03/2023

Healing After Loss: Tools for Navigating Grief

Grieving is an act of love, a love letter to what has been lost, and it lasts for the rest of our lives. But grief and loss can test our sense of resilience and render many of our usual coping strategies for difficult times obsolete. So how can therapists help clients who know grief is a process but want the pain to end? What does healing look like, in a space where so many of our tried-and-true strategies fall short? And when therapists and grieving clients encounter emotional roadblocks along the way, how should they proceed? In this session, you’ll explore the nuances of the grief process and learn ways of helping clients release grief. You’ll discover how to:

Determine what healing means for each client given their individual loss and their blocks to it
Guide clients through releasing feelings of guilt and self-blame
Navigate old wounds that may come up when a client is grieving
Help clients talk about grief with friends and family

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Objectives

Conduct strategies to help clients unhook from their judgements of self-blame.
Utilize techniques to deal with painful images.
Formulate how previous loss can complicate grief and employ techniques to cope.
Create healthy boundaries in grief and utilize them appropriately when encountering barriers in treatment.

Copyright : 17/03/2023

Finding Meaning in Loss: The Sixth Stage of Grief

Many clients look for “closure” after a loss, but the process of finding meaning and a clear direction out of their pain can transform therapy into a deeper, more hopeful experience. How can therapists help their clients shift from simply exploring pain to experiencing healing and even posttraumatic growth? Learn new ways to help your clients relate to their suffering and move on in a way that honours the loved one they’ve lost. You’ll explore how to:

Identify strategies to address guilt, shame, and stigma in special circumstances, such as child loss, sibling loss, parental loss, addiction, death by suicide and pandemic losses
Develop a better understanding of the strength and limitations of the Kubler-Ross’s stage model as well as how a new stage can enhance posttraumatic growth and resiliency
Explore powerful techniques for using grounded positive psychology to help witness vs. “fixing” grief

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Objectives

Analyze four strategies to address guilt, shame, and stigma in special circumstances, such as child loss, sibling loss, parental loss, and death by suicide or addiction.
Assess and evaluate the strengths and limitations of the Kubler-Ross’s stage model as well as how a new stage can enhance posttraumatic growth and resiliency.
Evaluate three techniques for using grounded positive psychology to assist clients who are grieving.

Copyright : 21/03/2021

Grief and Addiction

As a result of the opioid epidemic, the United States saw its largest recorded increase in overdose deaths last year, which is now officially the leading cause of death among adults under 50.

What do we need to do differently for clients grieving for a loved one who overdosed? And how do therapists themselves deal with the loss of an addicted client?

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Objectives

Determine why addiction grief is often weighted in self-blame and guilt
Determine how to help loved ones sort through the shame, isolation, and the roles they played in an addiction death
Assess tools for helping clients deal with addiction grief and the “if only’s” that accompany it, such as responsibility clarification and separating out the loved one’s voice from the addiction

Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing

While most therapists are experienced in exploring the pain of grief, their clients may be asking for a clear direction out of their pain. How does the therapist deal with questions of “When will this pain end?” How and when can the therapists help the client shift from feeling pain to experiencing healing?

David Kessler, one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss, will look closely at how death shapes our grief and explore appropriate interventions and talking points to use in your session. This recording will help you better understand how to approach the sensitivities of grief and, learn the importance of grieving for the healing process to begin in your clients.

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Objectives

Assess the dynamics of different types of grief in clients and the healing processes associated with each.
Determine the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process within clients.