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David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief


Speaker:
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC054390
Brochure Code:
PLW75257
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $249.99 - Now:  $49.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Even as a grief expert, David was unprepared for the sudden death of his son, who died at age 21.

People asked him, “What’s it like for the grief expert to lose his son?” He would answer, “The grief expert did not lose his son, the father did.”

Everything he knew about grief turned out to be true. David had to go through the five stages of grief but found himself wanting more from the experience – he wanted to find meaning in his life after such a terrible loss.

He learned that broken heart syndrome is real and he realized he would either die of it or live with it, and that healing occurs not when grief gets smaller, but when life gets bigger. This led to the discovery of the 6th stage of grief – finding meaning.

Based on David Kessler’s new book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, this seminar is designed to help professionals guide people through life’s worst moments to find meaning after loss. All types of loss will be covered, including betrayal, loss of a parent or family member, and loss due to addiction, mental illness and suicide.

After watching this live webcast, you will be able to enhance your work with those who have dealt with any kind of loss.

It will fill you with new insight, tools, strategies, and inspiring information, leaving you looking forward to the next day … so you can immediately begin to use all you have learned!

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the world’s leading grief experts – sign up today!

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Speaker

David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE's Profile

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David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even after life’s tragedies.

He is the author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Life Lessons and On Grief and Grieving, updating her 5 stages for grief. He also co-wrote, You Can Heal Your Heart with Louise Hay. He authored Visions Trips and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die. His first book, The Needs of The Dying received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa.

David’s personal experience as a child witnessing a mass shooting while his mother was dying in a hospital helped him begin his journey. For most of his life, David has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about the end of life, trauma, and grief. However, despite his vast knowledge of grief, his life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son.

David’s volunteer work includes being a founding member of Project Angel Food, a well-known and loved non-profit organization. He currently serves on the board of The Farrah Fawcett Foundation which provides cancer research, patient assistance, and prevention efforts. He also serves as Specialist Reserve for the Los Angeles Police as well as having served on the Red Cross’s disaster services team.

He has a new online model of grief support called Tender Hearts with over 25 groups each as well as one of the most respected Grief Certification programs. He is the founder of www.grief.com, which receives millions of visits yearly providing helpful resources to over 167 countries.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is the is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He is a published author and receives royalties. David Kessler receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Kessler is a board member for the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. He is a team member of the Health Care Executives of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Red Cross.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Objectives

  1. Develop meaning-making principles to assist clients coping with various types of loss.
  2. Formulate ways to use meaning to help clients remember with more love than pain.
  3. Evaluate techniques for using meaning to help clients resolve the internal struggle of “why did this happen?” and “why did this happen to me?”
  4. Determine why children are often the forgotten grievers and how to help them through their grief.
  5. Develop strategies that incorporate meaning mechanisms to help clients cope with complicated grieving.
  6. 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
  • Non-directive ways to address guilt, shame and stigma in grief
  • How to increase resilience and the possibility for post-traumatic growth after loss
  • 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
  • Post traumatic growth vs post-traumatic trauma
  • Help release the obsessive replaying of the trauma/death
Help Bereaved Parents
  • Understanding the impact of child loss
  • Learn ways to be comfortable with treating this type of loss
  • Supporting parents who are often grieving differently
  • Help parents sustain the marriage through tremendous loss
  • Navigating the discomfort of living and loving again
  • Address intimacy issues that may come up in grief
The Grief of Suicide
  • Overcoming 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 ones sort through the shame and isolation
  • Understanding the role they did and didn’t play in an addiction death
Shootings and Other Disasters
  • Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorist acts
  • Guidelines for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
  • The impact of natural vs. manmade disasters
Healing Complicated Relationships after Death
  • Understand patterns that can heal that relationship and help in all future relationships
  • Learn ways to help find peace in difficult relationships
Death and Dying
  • How hospice and palliative care professionals can facilitate meaning making
  • Understand how the death shapes the grief
  • Re-interpret the meaning behind false end-of-life beliefs
  • Why meaning can be the key to a “good” death
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
  • Normalize experiences around continued connections with loved ones who have died

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Thanatologists
  • Chaplains/Clergy Hospitals
  • Palliative Care Professionals
  • Hospice Professionals
  • Funeral Directors
  • Other Mental Health and Bereavement Professionals

Reviews

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Total Reviews: 26

Comments

Angie Z

"Outstanding presenter!!!"

Dana Z

"I have taken many workshops by David Kessler and love them all. "

BETTE W

"Excellent course!"

Reginald M

"very good presentation"

Marcy H

"Excellent seminar and presenter "

Kenneth R

"Excellent discussion, thanks so much!"

Michelle S

"Great training! It kept me interesting and provided new and useful information. "

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"Great presentation!!"

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"This is the best, most useful seminar I've ever participated in!"

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