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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.

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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
    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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