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David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

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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 instill 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 counseling
  • 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

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Nurses
  • Case Managers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Chaplains/Clergy Hospitals
  • Palliative Care Services
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/12/2020

Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing

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Objectives

  1. Assess the dynamics of different types of grief in clients and the healing processes associated with each.
  2. 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
    • The Sixth Stage of Grief
  • Complicated Grief
    • Multiple Losses
  • Goals of Grief Work

Target Audience

Psychologists, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/23/2018