[Download Now] David Kessler On Grief and Grieving – David Kessler

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There is grief and grieving. It is traumatic. It is awkward. It hurts.

How often do you walk into a room knowing that your education did not prepare you for this? How many times do you miss having the right words, phrases and actions to console?

Professionals are expected to have the right words at hand, the right actions to recommend, and the right response. Most of us fail because of a lack of grief emphasis in our training. Loss will be experienced by every client we see.

David Kessler will help you transform your practice, your life, and learn the art of caring for the grieving. You will be able to help the dying and grieving by knowing the right words and actions.

As a child, David witnessed a mass shooting and its aftermath, which helped him begin his journey as a grief healer. He has helped thousands of people face life and death with dignity and courage. David lives the work he teaches, from working with Elizabeth Taylor to seeing the aftermath of 9/11.

If you feel unprepared to help your clients process their trauma, grief and heal, don’t let more time go by.

1. Explore the dynamics of different types of grief and the healing processes associated with each.
2. Specify age appropriate grieving milestones that occur across the lifespan.
3. Articulate the somatic response to grief and identify how to manage residual grief in the body.
4. Consider why children are often the “forgotten grievers” and identify strategies for helping this population.
5. Analyze the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in treating grief.
6. Ascertain the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process.

There are interventions that can shape grief.

Anticipatory grief.

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

The children are in grief.

• Tools for preparing for the loss
• Interventions for coping enhancement for funerals
• The forgotten grievers
• Learn the truth about children going to funerals and open caskets

Complicated grief.

• Simplifying the model
• Murder, multiple losses, sudden death, suicide
• Alzheimer’s

There are explanations of different types of grief.

• Delayed
• Disenfranchised
• Ambiguous
• Inconclusive
• Complicated
• Average response
• Resilience

Forgiveness.

• Learn alternatives to forgiveness
• Understand when it works and why it doesn’t
• Learn techniques your client can use to actually find forgiveness

The grief of suicide.

• Understand how grief of suicide is different
• Learn techniques for releasing feelings of responsibility
• Tools for healing grief after suicide

The body and grief.

• Help understand how we hold grief in our body
• Learn techniques your client can use to get in touch with residual grief in the body
• Understand the ways the body remembers

Trauma

• How we often re-traumatize ourselves in grief
• Learn the difference between releasing grief and replaying traumatic events
• How vicarious trauma can affect the clinician

Positive psychology and grief.

• Learn how positive psychology can be used in healing grief
• Understand why clients may treat themselves harshly in grief
• Learn new ways to decrease suffering after a loss

Pet Loss

• Learn why pet loss is just as significant as other losses
• Understand why clients may not reveal loss of a pet
• Learn new ways to help with feelings of exaggerated responsibility

Clinicians working with loss need self-care.

• Learn how to take care of ourselves when being surrounded by loss
• Understand why we sometimes over identify with clients
• Understand if it’s helpful to self-disclose about the clinicians loss

Supporting friends and family in grief.

• Learn what to say and what not to say
• Understand proven strategies that will help clients heal themselves while not getting lost in others’ grief
• Tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client

Tools for the Clinician to help their clients.

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

Disasters and how we deal with them.

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