The premier virtual event for healing professionals working with grief and loss.
Death and loss feel so much closer now.
And grieving is so different…our journeys’ no longer focused on a single loss.
Instead, we're facing an accumulation of heartbreaks, sudden traumas, and a seemingly endless sense of uncertainty and collective loss.
It all adds up. Overwhelming us...
And it makes grief harder to process, leading to prolonged grief disorder, anxiety, depression and more.
That’s why we’ve teamed up with the biggest names and best instructors for our 2nd annual Virtual Grief Summit…
…the world’s largest gathering of professionals working with grief.
And because the tools and techniques shared at this summit are so critical to your work, we’re offering access to the entire 2-day live event absolutely free.
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Live 2-day Free Training
Grief Summit 2022:
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
April 28th & 29th from 9:00 AM - 4:40 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Featuring David Kessler, Megan Devine, Claire Bidwell Smith, Litsa Williams and 5 other acclaimed experts…
…this is the place to get the most up-to-date strategies and interventions so you can help clients cope and facilitate healthy grief in this unprecedented time.
In just 2 days, you’ll get a comprehensive toolbox for addressing the most challenging issues for grieving clients in today’s destabilizing world, including:- Techniques for navigating collective grief and uncertainty
- Proven strategies to promote connection and personal growth
- Practical tools for traumatic grief and mourning
- Unique strategies to create safe spaces for culturally diverse clients to grieve
- How to ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients
- Expressive arts interventions for grieving children
- And much more!
You’ll connect with an entire community of people just like you, so you can get the inspiration and support you need to feel re-energized and ready to tackle this most important work.
Whether you’re a psychotherapist, social worker, hospice worker, or anyone in the helping professions, this is your chance to feel more prepared than ever to counsel, treat and walk alongside the grieving.
Register today and get…- 2-days of LIVE presentations from the field’s leading experts
- The opportunity to upgrade and earn up to 12 LIVE CE hours
- Interactive Q&A and handouts for each session
- FREE archive access to ALL summit recordings for 14 days
Live 2-day Free Training
Grief Summit 2022:
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
April 28th & 29th from 9:00 AM - 4:40 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Summit Schedule — Day 1 — April 28th
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS | The 6th Stage of Grief: Why Meaning Making is More Important Than Ever
David Kessler | 9:00 AM to 10:05 AM CDT | Click here for information about David Kessler
“There is no meaning in dying in a pandemic.” I’ve heard this from so many people over the last two years. And they’re right. And the meaning isn’t in the “why.” The meaning is in us and what we do after…and today making meaning in the wake of loss is more important than ever before. In this incredibly moving session, you’ll join David Kessler, the world’s foremost expert on grief and loss, as he shows you how your clients can go beyond acceptance and find ways to replace painful memories with meaningful connections and move toward personal growth.
“There is no meaning in dying in a pandemic.” I’ve heard this from so many people over the last two years. And they’re right. And the meaning isn’t in the “why.” The meaning is in us and what we do after…and today making meaning in the wake of loss is more important than ever before. In this incredibly moving session, you’ll join David Kessler, the world’s foremost expert on grief and loss, as he shows you how your clients can go beyond acceptance and find ways to replace painful memories with meaningful connections and move toward personal growth.
Clinical Strategies for Collective Grief and Pandemic Fatigue
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT | 10:20 AM to 11:55 AM CDT | Click here for information about Diana Sebzda
The scale of loss your clients have been subjected to is unlike anything in a generation. Grief is now collectively woven into our experience—far-reaching with no discernible end. And the raw emotional weight of an ever-present pandemic reminds us all that death and loss is much closer than we realized. In this session grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC will show you how the added layers of collective grief and pandemic fatigue continue to impact your clients, and how you can adapt your work to help them better cope with the fallout. Includes concrete tools, techniques and strategies to facilitate healthy grief and overcome anticipatory grief in the age of COVID.
The scale of loss your clients have been subjected to is unlike anything in a generation. Grief is now collectively woven into our experience—far-reaching with no discernible end. And the raw emotional weight of an ever-present pandemic reminds us all that death and loss is much closer than we realized. In this session grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC will show you how the added layers of collective grief and pandemic fatigue continue to impact your clients, and how you can adapt your work to help them better cope with the fallout. Includes concrete tools, techniques and strategies to facilitate healthy grief and overcome anticipatory grief in the age of COVID.
From Loss to Resilience with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Leanne Campbell, PhD | 12:25 PM to 1:30 PM CDT | Click here for information about Leanne Campbell
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches available to clinicians today. Its attachment-based experiential approach makes it a perfect fit for grief work, giving you a roadmap and set of interventions to support your clients on their unique journeys to growth and resilience. Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally acclaimed expert on EFIT and co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) with Dr. Sue Johnson. In this session, Dr. Campbell will show you how attachment theory and science offer a guide to more fully understanding love and loss. Plus, Dr. Campbell will provide clinical demonstrations so you can witness for yourself how EFIT harnesses the power of emotion to help clients reach their goals in the aftermath of loss.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches available to clinicians today. Its attachment-based experiential approach makes it a perfect fit for grief work, giving you a roadmap and set of interventions to support your clients on their unique journeys to growth and resilience. Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally acclaimed expert on EFIT and co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) with Dr. Sue Johnson. In this session, Dr. Campbell will show you how attachment theory and science offer a guide to more fully understanding love and loss. Plus, Dr. Campbell will provide clinical demonstrations so you can witness for yourself how EFIT harnesses the power of emotion to help clients reach their goals in the aftermath of loss.
Creating Safe Spaces for Culturally Diverse Clients to Grieve
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS | 1:45 PM to 2:50 PM CDT | Click here for information about Tiffani Dilworth
Culturally unique ways of mourning have often been overlooked or unacknowledged, abruptly derailing the grieving process for many. Without empowering clients to openly feel and express grief within the cultural contexts of their pain, they’re missing an essential element to healing. Led by Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, this session will illuminate a path of skills, understanding, intersection and compassion that will leave you better prepared than ever before to help client from diverse cultures, subcultures and religions openly express emotional experiences, work through the grief of racism and injustice, and much more.
Culturally unique ways of mourning have often been overlooked or unacknowledged, abruptly derailing the grieving process for many. Without empowering clients to openly feel and express grief within the cultural contexts of their pain, they’re missing an essential element to healing. Led by Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, this session will illuminate a path of skills, understanding, intersection and compassion that will leave you better prepared than ever before to help client from diverse cultures, subcultures and religions openly express emotional experiences, work through the grief of racism and injustice, and much more.
Narrative Therapy Techniques for Navigating Grief and Uncertainty
Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC | 3:05 PM to 4:40 PM CDT | Click here for information about Claire Bidwell Smith
The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what’s around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My mother died when I was eighteen and my father died when I was twenty-five. Life was hard after that. I felt very alone in the world and unsure of my purpose. But through it all I wrote -- writing had always been my outlet and eventually it became my salvation. As a therapist I’ve found it to be one of the most powerful tools for working with grieving clients. Join me as I share narrative exercises you can use to cultivate self-compassionate, facilitate emotional expression, and help clients find peace and connection in times of uncertainty and crisis.
The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what’s around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My mother died when I was eighteen and my father died when I was twenty-five. Life was hard after that. I felt very alone in the world and unsure of my purpose. But through it all I wrote -- writing had always been my outlet and eventually it became my salvation. As a therapist I’ve found it to be one of the most powerful tools for working with grieving clients. Join me as I share narrative exercises you can use to cultivate self-compassionate, facilitate emotional expression, and help clients find peace and connection in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Summit Schedule — Day 2 — April 29th
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS | Seizing the Moment: Re-Humanizing Grief Care for Our Clients and Ourselves
Megan Devine, LPC | 9:00 AM to 10:05 AM CDT | Click here for information about Megan Devine
I thought I knew quite a bit about grief. Then on a beautiful, ordinary summer day in 2009, I watched my partner drown. If anyone could be prepared to deal with that kind of loss, it should have been me. But none of what I’d learned as a psychotherapist mattered. And when I found myself on the other side of the clinician’s couch, I discovered firsthand how outdated beliefs about grief fail us after loss. It’s time for a change. Join me for a critical session on the future of grief work, exploring the skills needed to de-pathologize and rehumanize grief…for our clients, for ourselves, and for the wider world.
I thought I knew quite a bit about grief. Then on a beautiful, ordinary summer day in 2009, I watched my partner drown. If anyone could be prepared to deal with that kind of loss, it should have been me. But none of what I’d learned as a psychotherapist mattered. And when I found myself on the other side of the clinician’s couch, I discovered firsthand how outdated beliefs about grief fail us after loss. It’s time for a change. Join me for a critical session on the future of grief work, exploring the skills needed to de-pathologize and rehumanize grief…for our clients, for ourselves, and for the wider world.
Expressive Arts for Children and Adults: Giving Grief a Voice
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT | 10:20 AM to 11:55 AM CDT | Click here for information about Diana Sebzda
Many people are left speechless when death and loss tears their world apart. And when you have clients grieving so intensely that words won’t come, being creative isn’t an option…it’s a necessity. In this can’t miss session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how you can use transformative expressive arts interventions with clients from a wide range of ages, backgrounds and abilities. Simple to add to your toolbox and implement in sessions, you’ll leave with creative techniques to give your clients a place to hold their pain, externalize their grief, and express emotion and love in ways that other techniques simply can’t replicate.
Many people are left speechless when death and loss tears their world apart. And when you have clients grieving so intensely that words won’t come, being creative isn’t an option…it’s a necessity. In this can’t miss session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how you can use transformative expressive arts interventions with clients from a wide range of ages, backgrounds and abilities. Simple to add to your toolbox and implement in sessions, you’ll leave with creative techniques to give your clients a place to hold their pain, externalize their grief, and express emotion and love in ways that other techniques simply can’t replicate.
Ethics and Personal Loss: Using Self-Disclosure in Grief Support
Litsa Williams, LCSW-C | 12:25 PM to 1:30 PM CDT | Click here for information about Litsa Williams
So many professionals drawn to grief work have experienced their own personal losses. And a growing body of research shows us that self-disclosure can be a tremendous asset in our work with clients. But handled incorrectly it can do more harm than good. In this session, Litsa Williams, LCSW-C, grief expert and co-founder of whatsyourgrief.com, explores personal loss, countertransference and how to ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients.
So many professionals drawn to grief work have experienced their own personal losses. And a growing body of research shows us that self-disclosure can be a tremendous asset in our work with clients. But handled incorrectly it can do more harm than good. In this session, Litsa Williams, LCSW-C, grief expert and co-founder of whatsyourgrief.com, explores personal loss, countertransference and how to ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients.
Survivors’ Guilt, Regret, and Shame: Interventions for Today’s Grieving Clients
Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT | 1:45 PM to 3:20 PM CDT | Click here for information about Christina Zampitella
Guilt, regret, and shame are common emotions to experience after a loss or traumatic event. But the pandemic has added unique and complicated elements to counseling and treatment that we must account for. In this timely session, Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT will show you how to help clients manage the “should’s” of regret, end self-blame and shame, and overcome the profound sense of guilt they may feel because loved ones succumbed to the virus while they survived.
Guilt, regret, and shame are common emotions to experience after a loss or traumatic event. But the pandemic has added unique and complicated elements to counseling and treatment that we must account for. In this timely session, Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT will show you how to help clients manage the “should’s” of regret, end self-blame and shame, and overcome the profound sense of guilt they may feel because loved ones succumbed to the virus while they survived.
EMDR Toolbox for Traumatic Grief and Mourning
Megan McQuary, LCSW, EMDR-C | 3:35 PM to 4:40 CDT | {719000_Megan_McQuaryWithBio}
Sudden or traumatic losses can leave clients stuck in the mourning process, unable to let go of the pain. Avoidant, hyperaroused and inundated with intrusive images and flashbacks, these clients cannot progress though the natural process of grief and form a new kind of loving relationship with the deceased. EMDR is one of today’s most in-demand therapies and has proven itself to be particularly effective in working with grief and mourning. In this session you’ll join EMDR expert Megan McQuary, LCSW, EMDR-C, as she shows you how EMDR can help you free your clients from the cycle of complex symptoms they worry they’ll never escape.
Sudden or traumatic losses can leave clients stuck in the mourning process, unable to let go of the pain. Avoidant, hyperaroused and inundated with intrusive images and flashbacks, these clients cannot progress though the natural process of grief and form a new kind of loving relationship with the deceased. EMDR is one of today’s most in-demand therapies and has proven itself to be particularly effective in working with grief and mourning. In this session you’ll join EMDR expert Megan McQuary, LCSW, EMDR-C, as she shows you how EMDR can help you free your clients from the cycle of complex symptoms they worry they’ll never escape.
Live 2-day Free Training
Grief Summit 2022:
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
April 28th & 29th from 9:00 AM - 4:40 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
And when you upgrade to lifetime access you get 4 BONUS sessions you can watch on-demand!
Unattended Grief: Interventions to Facilitate Healthy Grieving
David Kessler | Click here for information about David Kessler
When social connections, routine and sense of security are disrupted its difficult to fully acknowledge the losses in our lives amongst the chaos. But left unattended, grief can negatively impact every aspect of our being — altering our physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual health. In this session David Kessler shares the tips and interventions he’s found most helpful in facilitating healthy grieving, even in unprecedented times.
When social connections, routine and sense of security are disrupted its difficult to fully acknowledge the losses in our lives amongst the chaos. But left unattended, grief can negatively impact every aspect of our being — altering our physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual health. In this session David Kessler shares the tips and interventions he’s found most helpful in facilitating healthy grieving, even in unprecedented times.
Grief and Addictions
David Kessler | Click here for information about David Kessler
The grim news surrounding opioid abuse continues to make headlines. 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?
The grim news surrounding opioid abuse continues to make headlines. 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?
Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing
David Kessler | Click here for information about David Kessler
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?” David Kessler will look closely at how death shapes our grief and explore appropriate interventions and talking points to use in your session.
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?” David Kessler will look closely at how death shapes our grief and explore appropriate interventions and talking points to use in your session.
Kids and Loss: How to Work with the Uniqueness of a Child’s Grief
Erica Sirrine, PhD, LCSW, FT | Click here for information about Erica Sirrine
Children are often impacted most intensely following the loss of an immediate or extended family member. Trauma, pain and confusion replacing safety and securing. But their understanding of death, and responses to the grief that follows, are largely influenced by their developmental level, making their treatment much different from that of an adult. In this powerful session you’ll learn to better understand the unique nature of grief in children and adolescents and get developmentally appropriate treatment strategies to help these clients find hope and healing.
Children are often impacted most intensely following the loss of an immediate or extended family member. Trauma, pain and confusion replacing safety and securing. But their understanding of death, and responses to the grief that follows, are largely influenced by their developmental level, making their treatment much different from that of an adult. In this powerful session you’ll learn to better understand the unique nature of grief in children and adolescents and get developmentally appropriate treatment strategies to help these clients find hope and healing.
Live 2-day Free Training
Grief Summit 2022:
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss
April 28th & 29th from 9:00 AM - 4:40 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.