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• Center For Loss: Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training

  • Start
    11/04/2018
  • End
    11/07/2018
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Center For Loss: Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training
  

  https://www.centerforloss.com/trainings/
  

  This course is a suggested foundational course for all other Center for Loss courses. However, we realize that for certain caregivers, taking just one or two of our specialty courses (such as Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief) without first completing Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training may make the most sense. Please e-mail or call us if you would like to discuss your unique needs.

  Whether you are new to the experience of caring for those in grief or are a veteran bereavement caregiver, we invite you to participate in this popular seminar.

  Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training explores a wide range of topics related to bereavement caregiving, including:

  • Exploring North America’s modern understanding of grief and loss
  • Introduction to the tenets of “companioning” versus treating
  • Understanding attachment and love influences on grief
  • Misconceptions surrounding grief and loss
  • Unique influences on grief: the whys of the journey
  • Exploring the six central needs of mourning and the companioning helping role
  • Encouraging self-compassion in mourners
  • Application of content to support groups
  • Exploring reconciliation versus resolution
  • Acknowledging the transformative nature of grief.

  Dr. Wolfelt’s bereavement caregiving philosophy is based on what he has termed “companioning”. All of the practical topics covered in this course will be viewed through the companioning lens, and the companioning tenets will be introduced and explored.

  Graduates of this comprehensive seminar will return home with a multitude of newly refined skills and abilities. This is a very popular seminar, so early application is a must!

  Participants will receive a copy of Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  • Start
    11/05/2018
  • End
    11/08/2018
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  $895.00

  This inspiring class will enhance your ability to support people impacted by the death of someone to suicide. Come join us and learn more about the normal and necessary journey into and through suicide grief.

  Topics include:

  The language of suicide

  Misconceptions

  Special features of suicide grief

  Dimensions of grief response and the caregiver helping role

  Application of Dr. Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning

  Exploring the transformative nature of suicide grief

  Participants will receive a copy of Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: PTSD: Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  • Start
    11/05/2018
  • End
    11/08/2018
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  $895

  This inspiring class will enhance your ability to support people impacted by the death of someone to suicide. Come join us and learn more about the normal and necessary journey into and through suicide grief.

  Topics include:

  • The language of suicide
  • Misconceptions
  • Special features of suicide grief
  • Dimensions of grief response and the caregiver helping role
  • Application of Dr. Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning
  • Exploring the transformative nature of suicide grief

  Participants will receive a copy of Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.

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• Cultural Competency and Grief

  • When
    11/13/2018

  This session was originally presented at NHPCO’s 2013 Virtual Conference 'Loss, Grief and Bereavement: Helping Patients, Families and Communities.' With the trend to increase hospice access to underserved communities, comes the importance of the hospice clinician’s understanding of the unique grief needs of individuals from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Since we look at life through our own cultural lens and this lens has the potential to distort what we observe, we must first develop awareness of our own multi-cultural heritage and values related to grief. Next is awareness of how these values play a part in the relationship with the mourner. This session will then proceed to outline key characteristics of a culturally-competent clinician, including knowledge of death and mourning practices, verbal and non-verbal communication cultural differences, and finally, culturally- sensitive bereavement interventions.
  

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• When The Dead Won't Rest: Survivor Guilt In Combat Veterans

  • When
    11/13/2018

  This session was originally presented at NHPCO’s 2013 Virtual Conference ‘Loss, Grief and Bereavement, helping patients, families and communities’. Among combat Veterans memories of friends killed in battle often remain vivid and laced with emotion even after the passage of decades. Some who survive carry a sense of guilt which can impact not only the way they live but how they die as they approach the end of life. Some of the driving factors of survivor guilt are explored and ways of supporting these Veterans toward healing are explored.
  

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• Center for Loss: Understanding and Responding to Complicated Mourning

  • Start
    12/03/2018
  • End
    12/06/2018
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Understanding and Responding to Complicated Mourning

  $895.00

  Complicated mourning is normal grief that has become stuck or made more complex by various circumstances, including traumatized or marginalized loss, personality or mental health issues, grief overload, and other factors.

  Together we’ll explore important topics such as:

  The distinction between “pathological” and “complicated” mourning

  Sudden, violent death

  The natural complications of suicide grief

  Multiple loss and bereavement overload

  Unmourned—or carried—grief

  Depression in grief—What’s normal? What’s clinical depression?

  Assessment model for complicated mourning

  Family systems issues

  The distinction between counseling and therapy

  Growth-oriented companioning strategies

  Those who would like to are encouraged to bring a case presentation to assist seminar participants in the learning process.

  Participants will receive a copy of When Grief is Complicated.

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  ***Registration for the May 7-10, 2018 training in Fort Collins, CO is now closed. Please call (970)226-6050 for more information.***

  
  

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• Center For Loss: Counseling Skills Fundamentals

  • Start
    01/14/2019
  • End
    01/17/2019
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Center For Loss: Counseling Skills Fundamentals
  

  https://www.centerforloss.com/trainings/
  

  This seminar evolved out of a need expressed by people working with the bereaved. Many have never had the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive yet practical counseling skills training program. We think this kind of training is a must for those working to “companion” people in their unique life and death journeys. The content of this seminar is appropriate both for novices and for experienced practitioners looking to update their counseling skills.

  Topics we will concentrate on include:

  • Development of the counseling relationship
  • Characteristics distinguishing effective from ineffective counselors
  • Counseling techniques and practice
  • Understanding the counseling process
  • Creating a personal theory of counseling
  • Issues and trends in counseling the bereaved

  Graduates of this seminar will be able to integrate theory, research, and practice in meaningful ways. You’ll return home with many newly learned and practiced counseling skills.

  Participants will receive a copy of Counseling Skills for Companioning the Mourner: The Fundamentals of Effective Grief Counseling.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies

  • Start
    02/04/2019
  • End
    02/07/2019
  • Location
    Scottsdale, AZ

  Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies

  $895.00

  As Dr. Wolfelt frequently states, “When words are inadequate, have a ceremony.” This seminar will help participants enhance their understanding of the WHY of meaningful funerals. For a multitude of reasons, which we will explore in this training, many people do not understand the value of various elements of funerals (viewing, music, reading eulogy/remembrance, symbols, actions, gathering). The result is that many families are “at risk” for eliminating or subverting these elements.

  This information-filled training will define these elements, review the functional value they bring to a meaningful funeral, and interface them with Dr. Wolfelt’s WHY We Have Had Funerals Since the Beginning of Time pyramid. You will be taught to theme everything you do with information, education, and honoring the family’s unique needs.

  Due to many requests for this training, we are opening the registration to any caregivers interested in enhancing their understanding of creating meaningful funerals.

  Topics include:

  • Learn how to help families make transformations and “decisions that are good for them”
  • Arrange meaningful funerals as a “facilitator” not a “functionary”
  • How to convey value during every step of the planning process
  • Understand that ritual means “to fit together”
  • Interface the Wolfelt WHY pyramid with the elements of ceremony
    How to care for yourself as you create meaningful funerals

  Participants will receive a copy of Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences: A Guide for Caregivers and A Tale of Two Funerals: The Throw Rug and the Tapestry.

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• Center for Loss: Living with Meaning and Purpose in Your Life

  • Start
    04/01/2019
  • End
    04/04/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Living with Meaning and Purpose in Your Life

  $895.00

  Without doubt, the conscious awareness of your losses and your own mortality can allow you to live with meaning and purpose in your life. Dr. Wolfelt created this enlightening and empowering seminar to help participants make the most of their unique and natural gifts.

  Come join us and explore the spiritual aspects of finding your place in the world. Learn how to marry your values, beliefs, and gifts with how you spend your time each and every day. Explore the concept of living your “calling” and discover how to use that talent which you uniquely came to earth to use. Major themes explored in this seminar:

  • Exploring the essence of purpose
  • Are you listening to your calling?
  • How to live from the inside out
  • The benefits of living congruently
  • Discovering and using your natural gifts

  Participants will receive a copy of One Mindful Day at a Time: 365 Meditations for Living in the Now

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• Center for Loss: Understanding and Responding to Complicated Mourning

  • Start
    05/06/2019
  • End
    05/09/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Understanding and Responding to Complicated Mourning

  $895.00

  Complicated mourning is normal grief that has become stuck or made more complex by various circumstances, including traumatized or marginalized loss, personality or mental health issues, grief overload, and other factors.

  Together we’ll explore important topics such as:

  The distinction between “pathological” and “complicated” mourning

  Sudden, violent death

  The natural complications of suicide grief

  Multiple loss and bereavement overload

  Unmourned—or carried—grief

  Depression in grief—What’s normal? What’s clinical depression?

  Assessment model for complicated mourning

  Family systems issues

  The distinction between counseling and therapy

  Growth-oriented companioning strategies

  Those who would like to are encouraged to bring a case presentation to assist seminar participants in the learning process.

  Participants will receive a copy of When Grief is Complicated.

  ***Please select “Free Shipping” at check-out***

  ***Registration for the May 7-10, 2018 training in Fort Collins, CO is now closed. Please call (970)226-6050 for more information.***

  
  

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• Center For Loss: Counseling Skills Fundamentals

  • Start
    06/17/2019
  • End
    06/20/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Center For Loss: Counseling Skills Fundamentals
  

  https://www.centerforloss.com/trainings/
  

  This seminar evolved out of a need expressed by people working with the bereaved. Many have never had the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive yet practical counseling skills training program. We think this kind of training is a must for those working to “companion” people in their unique life and death journeys. The content of this seminar is appropriate both for novices and for experienced practitioners looking to update their counseling skills.

  Topics we will concentrate on include:

  • Development of the counseling relationship
  • Characteristics distinguishing effective from ineffective counselors
  • Counseling techniques and practice
  • Understanding the counseling process
  • Creating a personal theory of counseling
  • Issues and trends in counseling the bereaved

  Graduates of this seminar will be able to integrate theory, research, and practice in meaningful ways. You’ll return home with many newly learned and practiced counseling skills.

  Participants will receive a copy of Counseling Skills for Companioning the Mourner: The Fundamentals of Effective Grief Counseling.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief

  • Start
    07/08/2019
  • End
    07/11/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief
  

  $895

  This seminar takes a comprehensive look at a variety of subtopics related to child and adolescent mourning. Come join us and learn from one of North America’s leading grief educators about:

  • The major factors influencing the child’s response to loss
  • Dimensions of childhood grief and helping roles
  • Six central reconciliation needs of childhood mourning
  • Tools and techniques used in counseling bereaved children
  • Potential inhibitors in the child’s capacity to mourn
  • Guidelines for facilitating bereaved child and adolescent support groups
  • Special consideration for the adolescent mourner
  • Identifying the “detached child”
  • Referral criteria and recommended reading lists

  Participants will receive a copy of Companioning the Grieving Child: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Death, Grief, and Mourning Training

  • Start
    07/22/2019
  • End
    07/25/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Death, Grief, and Mourning Training

  $895.00

  Bereavement naturally results in the “dark night of the soul,” writes Dr. Wolfelt. A central need of those in grief is to rejuvenate the spirit, to discover a reason to get one’s feet out of bed in the morning. Dr. Wolfelt will explore

  • The importance of “companioning” vs. “treating” the bereaved
  • Definitions of spirituality and faith
  • Themes of spiritual importance to the bereaved
  • Helping the bereaved reconstruct meaning and purpose in life
  • A spiritual assessment tool
  • Pain and suffering in the context of loss and grief
  • Grief as a transformative experience

  Plan to join us as we explore the very heart — spirituality — of death, grief, and mourning.

  Participants will receive a copy of Dr. Wolfelt’s book Healing Your Grieving Soul.

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• Center for Loss: Support Group Facilitator Training

  • Start
    08/05/2019
  • End
    08/08/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Support Group Facilitator Training

  $895.00

  Enthusiasm for bereavement support group counseling has burgeoned in recent years. And while training opportunities that advance our understanding of the bereavement process have become more available recently, less work has been done on the support group models of care. This seminar helps fill this gap.

  Topics covered will include:

  Support group leadership skills

  Barriers to effectiveness in support group counseling

  Detailed guidelines for operational practices (such as size of group, length, and frequency of sessions)

  Development of ground rules

  Distinguishing open-ended from closed-ended groups

  Elements of pre-screening group members

  Intervening with disruptive group members

  Publicizing your group

  Participants will receive a copy of Understanding Your Grief, The Understanding Your Grief Journal, and The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: PTSD: Companioning the Traumatized Griever

  • Start
    08/26/2019
  • End
    08/29/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  PTSD: Companioning the Traumatized Griever

  $895

  As our cultural and medical awareness of post-traumatic stress have grown, we as a society and as caregivers have begun to realize the sheer magnitude of the issue. It’s now thought that about eight percent of us are experiencing the condition called PTSD at any given time.

  In this training, Dr. Wolfelt will explore PTSD not as a “disorder” but instead as a component of normal, though complicated, grief. He will explain his belief that the term “traumatic grief” captures better the totality of people’s experience following traumatic loss. The symptoms of grief, normal or traumatic, are care-eliciting symptoms—not signs of illness but rather symptoms of an injury that needs careful and compassionate tending. What’s more, the missing piece in the puzzle that is traumatic grief is mourning, or the expression of grief.

  Topics we will cover include:

  • Traumatic versus normal grief symptoms
  • Traumatic grief as a form of complicated grief
  • Medical model therapies as treatment
  • Mourning as “treatment”
  • Catch-up mourning for traumatic grief

  Participants will receive a copy of Reframing PTSD as Traumatic Grief: How Caregivers Can Companion Traumatized Grievers Through Catch-Up Mourning.

  
  

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• Center For Loss: Exploring the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief

  • Start
    09/09/2019
  • End
    09/12/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, Co

  Exploring the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief

  $895.00

  This seminar will help participants learn more about Dr. Wolfelt’s concept of the “shadow of the ghosts” of grief. The person living in the shadow of the ghosts of grief has symptoms that suggest the pain of grief has been inhibited, suppressed, converted, or denied. Come learn about:

  • The concept of “carried grief”
  • Sociocultural contributions to “carried grief”
  • A five-phase wounding process
  • Categories of “complicated mourning”
  • Family system influences: trans-generational passing town
  • The process of “catch-up” mourning

  Participants will receive a copy of Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief.

  
  

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• Center for Loss: PTSD: Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  • Start
    10/07/2019
  • End
    10/10/2019
  • Location
    Fort Collins, CO

  Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner

  $895

  This inspiring class will enhance your ability to support people impacted by the death of someone to suicide. Come join us and learn more about the normal and necessary journey into and through suicide grief.

  Topics include:

  • The language of suicide
  • Misconceptions
  • Special features of suicide grief
  • Dimensions of grief response and the caregiver helping role
  • Application of Dr. Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning
  • Exploring the transformative nature of suicide grief

  Participants will receive a copy of Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.

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