by Kara Jones | Apr 22, 2019 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
As grief support practitioners, we’re having conversations and working creatively with our clients in ways that we hope will help our clients to explore their grief and to make meanings that are comforting, sustaining, and hopeful, after loss. Contrary to popular and...
by Kara Jones | Apr 16, 2019 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Lit Review, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
Grief can be a part of the experience of so many different kinds of losses, not just the death of a loved one. And yet, very few other kinds of losses are ever validated in our society, and we don’t really have social rituals for them, sympathy cards, or support...
by Kara Jones | Mar 19, 2019 | Alumni Experiences, Certification in Creative Grief Support
“The content was thorough, compelling, revealing and intriguing. Completing the training has provided me with resources, practices and tools through which I have grown and look forward to encouraging future clients. “This course has been fruitful on many...
by Kara Jones | Feb 14, 2019 | Alumni Experiences, Certification in Creative Grief Support, Co-Founders Experiences, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
You are invited We know that you really want to be good at what you do, and make a difference in people’s lives. If you want to be a highly effective helping professional, it’s vital to understand grief. Grief is powerful and it can really get our clients “stuck” in...
by Kara Jones | Jan 28, 2019 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
Research consistently shows that people who have compassionate social support and a sense of belonging cope much better after loss, so we certainly have a responsibility to explore with our clients what their experiences are of social support. Social location and...
by Kara Jones | Jan 7, 2019 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
Sometimes we’re asked by grief support professionals why we don’t teach Elizabeth Kubler Ross’ “5 stages of grief” model in our Creative Grief Support Certification course. One of the reasons for this is because of what Kubler Ross’ model leaves out. With its focus on...
