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Who are your grief support session notes for?
Our students often ask for recommendations on the “best way” to take notes during or after grief support conversations. We love that the main concern that question seems to come out of is something along the lines of, “How do I be both a diligent note-keeper, and also...
Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Jess Ryan says…
"I initially had some hesitation signing up for this course because I have not experienced grief in the form of loss of a close loved one. However, I saw so many parallels between grief due to bereavement and my own grieving over losses due to depression and...
Session Notes
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Existential pain, isolation, and prison hospice
There are so many great resources online exploring various aspects of grief experiences and showing how creativity can be a useful approach. Here are a few we've found interesting... The pain of existence An appreciation for dark humour often emerges during grief....
Living With Grief: Contributing Author Interview with Kara Jones + Book Giveaway
Giveaway: 1 print copy of Living With Grief book We are giving away one copy of the anthology, Living With Grief. This giveaway is only open to those with a mailing address in the US. If you are in the US and win, a print copy will be mailed to you. The giveaway is...
Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner Elizabeth Berrien says…
"This course has helped me grow tremendously. I've already noticed a positive difference in the way that I facilitate my monthly support group. I have always considered becoming a coach, and the fact that this was specifically about issues surrounding grief and loss...
What if you made humility central to your grief support approach?
“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...
Narrative Humility
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Who do you think you are?
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...