Navigating Through Loss and Grief: Meaning Making Along the Journey


Friday, April 21st, 2017

The Brattleboro Retreat
Brattleboro, Vermont

AGENDA

 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Coffee and Registration 
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Overview of the Day 
  • What does it mean to be a grief therapist? 
  • Assumptions and expectations about grief and loss
  • Psychological theories and approaches to grief and loss 
   
10:00 AM -10:15 AM Break & Refreshments
10:15 AM - 11:30  AM
  • Cultural embeddedness in approaches to grief 
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
  • Self-reflection: where do participants recognize themselves within the conceptual frameworks, culture, religion/spirituality, etc?
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM
  • Special Circumstances: disenfranchised grief, complicated grief, traumatic loss
  • Special Modalities
  • Where do I go from here?                                                                                 
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM  Questions and Answers