Full Course Description
David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
Program Information
Objectives
- Develop meaning-making principles to assist clients coping with various types of loss.
- Formulate ways to use meaning to help clients remember with more love than pain.
- Evaluate techniques for using meaning to help clients resolve the internal struggle of “why did this happen?” and “why did this happen to me?”
- Determine why children are often the forgotten grievers and how to help them through their grief.
- Develop strategies that incorporate meaning mechanisms to help clients cope with complicated grieving.
- Utilize strategies to help clients address guilt, shame and stigma associated with grief.
Outline
The Sixth Stage of Grief: Finding Meaning
- Why the stages were never meant to be linear
- What is making meaning in grief?
- Types of meaning making
- How meaning can help remember the person who died with more love than pain
- Why a sixth stage is the key to recovery from grief
- Keys to finding acceptance and moving into the sixth stage
Witnessing vs “Fixing” Grief
- Mirroring techniques
- The cost of trying to “fix” those who are grieving
- Go beyond active listening skills to connect
- The consequence of trying to find meaning too early
Help Clients Change Their Thinking Around Loss
- Strategies to address guilt, shame and stigma in grief
- How to increase resilience after loss
- Use positive psychology to increase the possibility of post traumatic growth
- Understand the “meaning” we attach to the traumatic loss or death
- How to decrease catastrophizing after loss
- Learn ways to instil good memories instead of painful ones
Complicated Grief
- Simplifying grief models and exploring new models, including resiliency and Option B
- Meaning making as a new tool for dealing with murder, multiple losses, Alzheimer’s
- Techniques for strength-based grief counselling
- Post traumatic growth vs Post traumatic trauma
- Techniques for releasing the obsessive replaying of the trauma/death
Help Bereaved parents
- Understand the impact of child loss
- Learn ways to be comfortable with treating this type of loss
- Techniques for helping parents who are often grieving differently
- Learn ways to help sustain the marriage through tremendous loss
- Ways to help parents deal with the discomfort of living and loving again
- Address intimacy issues that may come up in grief
The Grief of Suicide
- Tools for dealing with the “what if’s” and “if only’s”
- Understand the true “why” of death by suicide
- Ways to help others find peace again
Loss by Addiction
- Meaning making for healing self-blame
- How to help loved one’s sort through the shame and isolation
- Understand the roles they did and didn’t play in an addiction death
Shootings and Other Disasters
- Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorist’s acts
- Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
- The impact of natural vs. manmade disasters
Healing Grief in Divorce
- Use meaning to reframe divorce and heal shame
- Heal after betrayal by understanding its meaning
- Understand the true meaning of marriage after it ends
- Interpret the meaning behind negative reoccurring patterns
- Negative meanings we make after a relationship ends
Healing Complicated Relationships after Death
- Learn techniques to heal a relationship after death
- Understand patterns that can heal that relationship and help in all future relationships
- Learn ways to help your client find peace in difficult relationships
Meaning and the Afterlife
- Effective and ineffective models of continuing connections for living a full life
- Use the model of continuing bonds and connections for healing
- Learn ways to normalize client experiences around continued connections with loved ones that have died
Copyright :
12/03/2020
Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing
Program Information
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.
Outline
- Background
- The Death Shapes Grief
- River of Grief
- Witnessing Grief
- Pure Grief vs. External Triggers
- Grief vs. Trauma
- Positive Psychology
- Survivor’s Guilt
- Grief Needs
- Grief in Therapy
- Worst and Best Things to Say
- Pitfalls of Getting Over Loss
- Healing
- Complicated Grief
- Goals of Grief Work
Copyright :
23/03/2018