On Grief and Grieving

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David Kessler

Renowned End-of-Life Expert, Author

Featured on “Oprah & Friends”, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, People Magazine, “Entertainment Tonight”, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times

David Kessler, best-selling author, collaborator with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and well-known expert on palliative care, hospice and end-of-life care, will provide you with the newest information on grief and grieving. Mixing compassion and understanding with an unequalled depth of experience, David will help to normalize living for those left behind. This seminar combines real information and practical wisdom with profound insights to help those shattered by grief to return to a sense of wholeness. Grievers and clinicians alike can learn how, after a loss to reinvest in life again and to put loss in perspective, while commemorating and honoring the death of a loved one.

This seminar is guaranteed to enhance your work as a caregiver and fill you with insight, tools, strategies, and inspiring information, you’ll look forward to the next day… so you can immediately begin to use all you have learned.

• Learn healthy and supportive ways to respond to grief
• Help loved ones learn to live with loss instead of “getting over loss”
• Kübler-Ross’ stages revisited and updated

OUTLINE

Inner World of Grief

• Interpret and treat the feeling of “relief” in grief
• The role of dreams and their archetypes
• Navigating the loss and replacement of roles in loss
• Use of “Life Beliefs” in bereavement
• Dealing with “secrets” that may be revealed after death
• Tools for clinicians when “angels” appear in the bereaved person’s narrative

Interventions that can Shape Grief

Anticipatory Grief

• Treatment strategies
• Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client

Deathbed Visions and Their Impact on Grief

• Effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration
• Religion in patients’ deathbed visions
• Clinical/palliative care studies, research of near death awareness
• Using the law to normalize the dying experience

Kübler Ross’ Stages Revisited and Updated for 2013

• The possibility of a sixth stage?
• Interpreting the relevancy of the stages today
• Going beyond Kübler-Ross

Children in Grief

• Tools for preparing for the loss
• Intervention for coping enhancement for funerals
• The forgotten grievers

Complicated Grief

• Simplifying the model
• Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide,
• Alzheimer’s
• Helping families reframe near death

Tools for the Clinician to Help Clients Cope with:

• Bullycide
• Anniversaries
• Holidays – the seen and unseen
• Birthdays

Disasters and How We Cope

• Shootings/hurricanes/earthquakes and terrorists acts
• Techniques for approaching horrific crime and/or disaster scenes
• The impact of natural vs. manmade disasters

OBJECTIVES

• Discuss how the stages of grief influence our healing after loss.
• Identify the milestones that often occur after a loss including anticipatory grief
• Summarize appropriate responses to grief and mourning within the care team.
• Outline how the updated stages of grief influence our healing after loss.
• Explain why children are often the forgotten grievers and how to help them.
• Identify mechanisms to help with complicated grieving.
• Compare and contrast the impact of natural disasters vs. manmade disasters.
• Identify dozens of tools and interventions to be used by clinicians, hospitals, palliative care services and hospices when working with grief and loss

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