by Tamara Beachum | Jan 31, 2023 | Events, Free Resources, Happy Hour, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
As we navigate our busy lives and work as grief support practitioners, it can be a challenge to connect with others who share similar perspectives. But for those of us who regularly attend the Creative Grief Studio’s First Friday Happy Hour, we are lucky to have found...
by Kara Jones | May 6, 2019 | Certification in Creative Grief Support, Creative Grief Support Prompts, Lit Review, Reflect on Your Grief Support Practice
“Narrative humility allows clinicians to recognise that each story we hear holds elements that are unfamiliar – be they cultural, socio-economic, sexual, religious, or idiosyncratically personal. Assuming that our reading of any patient’s story is the definitive...
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 | 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...
