Grief Education Webinars
Grief is a natural and organic response to loss.
During Conversations On Grief™ webinars, you'll learn how grief and mourning impacts our life physically, emotionally, cognitively, socially, and spiritually.
You will receive proven, practical ways to help navigate the wilderness of your grief day by day.
Grief and the Holidays
How to Make a Practical Plan for Dealing with Grief and the Holidays
Someone you love has died. How do you face the holidays without them? How do you cope with the pain of your loss when everyone around you is so joyful? How will you deal with the empty chair at the holiday table? Holidays are some of the most challenging
times to navigate after a loss.
In this webinar you’ll learn how to make a practical plan for coping with your holiday grief, eliminate unnecessary stress, reevaluate holiday rituals, and
how you integrate your loved one and your
loss into this holiday season.
During this webinar, we will explore how to develop
a practical plan for dealing with grief during
the holidays including:
- What You Need to Do to Eliminate Unnecessary Stress
- How to Talk About the Person Who Died
- Decide What to Do About Traditions
- Explore How to Have a “This Will Do” Christmas
- Identifying “Triggers” to Help Minimize Your Holiday Grief Surprises
- How to Take Tender Loving Care of Yourself
Date
December 13, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
Conversations On Grief
If You're Lonely
Finding Your Way
Ironically, if you are lonely, you’re not alone. People the world over are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. In the US, one in five of us reports feeling lonely, and almost half of seniors are lonely on a regular basis. Loneliness hurts, and it can lead to depression, addiction, physical problems, and other harmful consequences.
When you attend this compassionate webinar, you'll learn:
How to Better Understand
Your Loneliness
The Important Distinction
Between Isolation and Solitude
Practical Suggestions
for Reclaiming Community
How to Build Meaningful
Connections In Ways That Suit You
Finding your way back to companionship and hope is not only possible, it’s essential. You deserve to feel better. You deserve connection. This webinar will help
you find your way.
This webinar is based on a book written
by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, If You’re Lonely: Finding Your Way. Visit www.centerforloss.com
to learn more.
Date
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
Helping Yourself Heal
First Aid for Broken Hearts
Life is both wonderful and devastating. It graces us with joy, and it breaks our hearts. If your heart is broken, this workshop is for you.
Whether you’re struggling with a death, break-up, illness, unwanted life change, or loss of any kind, this workshop will help you both understand your predicament and figure out what
to do about it.
Loss may be an unavoidable part of human life, but it doesn’t have to prevent you from living well. You can and will survive this. If you adopt the basic principles, revealed and tested by one of the world’s beloved grief counselors, you’ll learn in this workshop; you will even go on to thrive.
When you attend this webinar,
you'll learn:
How to Honor Your Unique Grief
Why Mourning Is the Secret Sauce of Grief
The 3 Degrees of Brokenness and How They Affect Your Healing
How to Triage Your Broken Heart
How to Find Short-Term Care Where to Go for Long-Term Care
How to Let the Mending Begin
The webinar is based on a book written
by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled First Aid for Broken Hearts. Visit www.centerforloss.com to learn more.
Date
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
Find Meaning After Loss
Grief is extremely powerful. It’s easy to get stuck in your pain and remain bitter, angry, or depressed. Grief grabs you by the heart ad doesn’t seem to let go.
But if you can manage to find meaning in even the most senseless loss, you can do more that get unstuck. When circumstances are at their worst, you can find your best.
You can keep growing and finding ways to live a good and someday even joyful life, one enriched by the lessons and love of the person who died.
When you attend this webinar,
you’ll learn:
Why the 6 Stages of Grief Were Never Meant to Be Linear
What Is Meaning Making in Grief
Types of Meaning Making
How Meaning Making Can Help You Remember the Person Who Died with More Love Than Pain
Why Meaning Making is the Key to Recovery from Grief
The Keys to Finding Acceptance and Moving into Meaning Making
Why Post-Traumatic Growth Is an Important Part of Meaning Making
This webinar is based on a book written by David Kessler titled, Finding Meaning, The Sixth Stage of Grief. Visit www.grief.com to learn more.
Date
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
The Guilt of Grief
Guilt and regret are two of the most common feelings in grief. The finality
of death allows no more time for apologizing or making amends. There’s no longer room for second chances.
And so for many grievers it’s normal to ponder “if-onlys” and experience the pain of mistakes made and opportunities squandered.
Yet shining the healing light of understanding and forgiveness on the guilt and regret of grief is within your power. If you befriend and find restorative ways to express these natural feelings, they will soften.
This webinar offers the compassionate insight and tools you need to evolve from guilt to grace, one healing
day at a time.
This webinar is based on a book written by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, The Guilt of Grief: How to Understand, Empress and Restoratively Express Gruilt and Regret After Loss. Visit www.centerforloss.com to learn more.
Coming Soon
2023 Scheudle
The Anger of Grief
Anger in grief is natural. It’s normal to feel anger and other explosive emotions such as hate, blame, terror, resentment, rage, and jealousy after the death of someone you love or another
significant life loss.
Yet it’s challenging to experience these feelings day after day. And it can be hard knowing what to do about them. Allowing them to seethe and build up inside you is not the answer. Neither
is lashing out at people who
care about you.
When you attend this webinar,
you’ll learn how to;
Understand and be with your
anger as a natural part of mourning
Express your anger and other
explosive emotions in restorative ways
Soothe your anger to help
your healing journey in grief
Use time tested tips, tools, and proven techniques for living the remainder of your days with less suffering
and more joy.
This webinar is based on a book written by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, The
Anger of Grief: How to Understand and Restorative Express Explosive Emotions After Loss. Visit www.centerforloss.com
to learn more.
Coming Soon
2023 Schedule
Why Men Grieve Differently and
How to Support Them
Men grieve differently than women. Their grief languages are not the same. Yet grief does not have to divide. We will explore the differences and learn practical, loving ways to support
men in grief.
There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Our grief as a man or a woman is as unique and individual as we are, however, there are differences.
Men tend to think their way through grief, women seem to feel their way. Women often perceive men as being void of emotions, reluctant to share their feelings. Maybe it’s because men are taught to honor the pain of loss, then hide any feelings associated with it. And when men and women try to talk with one another about their grief they quickly find they are speaking two different grief languages.
In this webinar, we will explore the root cause of these differences. We will discuss how to replace expectation and judgement with understanding and compassion. You will learn practical helping skills you can use to give the men in your life heart
centered support.
The webinar is based on a book by Elizabeth Levang, Ph.D., titles When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently
and How You Can Help. Visit www.levangandassociates.com
to learn more.
Coming Soon
2023 Schedule
What to Say and What NOT
to Say to Someone Grieving
Someone you care about has suffered a loss. As a supportive friend or family member, you instinctively want to offer comfort but don’t know what to say. Then in a moment
of emotional awkwardness and with the best of intentions, you say:
“He’s in a better place.”
“There is a reason for everything.”
“Aren’t you over him yet, he has been dead for a while now?”
"You can have another child still.”
"She was such a good person God wanted her to be with him.”
“I know how you feel.” “Be strong.”
You meant no harm; however, what you just said was not helpful or supportive. So, what do you say, and what do you not say when someone -is grieving?
When you attend this webinar,
you'll learn:·
64 of the Worst Things You Can Say and How to Avoid Them.
64 of the Best Things You Can Say and the Best Ways to Say Them.
Why Grief is a Journey, NOT a Destination.
How to “Companion” the Griever on Their Journey Through the Wilderness of Grief.
Six Common Grief Emotions and How They Impact a Griever’s Daily Life.
How to Deal with the Physical Symptoms of Grief.
6 Grief Myths and How They Can Prevent the Griever from Moving Forward.
This webinar in part is based on a book written by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, Sympathy and Condolances: What to Say and Write to Convey Your Support After Loss. Visit www.centerforloss.com
to learn more.
Coming Soon
2023 Schedule
Expected Loss
Coping with Anticipatory Grief
We don’t only experience grief after a
loss we often experience it before.
If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we’re concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal, but it can also be confusing and painful.
This compassionate guide will help you understand and befriend your grief as
well as find effective ways to express
it as you live your daily life.
Life is change, and change is hard. This webinar will help see you through.
When you attend this webinar,
you will learn:
What anticipatory grief is
What causes anticipatory grief
How anticipatory grief is different
from regular grief
Why grief and mourning
are not the same
How to care for and love
someone who is dying
This webinar is based on a book written
by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, Expected
Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief. Visit www.centerforloss.com to learn more.
Date
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
Coming Soon
2023 Scheudle
Too Much Loss
Coping with Grief Overload
If you are feeling overwhelmed by too much loss in your life, this webinar
is for you.
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up,
the grief often seems especially
chaotic and defeating.
The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to
hope and healing.
When you attend this webinar,
you’ll learn:
What grief overload is
and how to cope with it
·
What you may think and feel when you are experiencing grief overload
·
Your six needs of mourning and
how they will help you heal
How to make a mourning plan
What reconciling your grief
looks and feels like
How the Grief Overload Mourner’s Bill of Rights can help you
actively mourn
This webinar is based on a book written
by Alan D Wolfelt, PH.D. titled, Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload.
Visit www.centerforloss.com
to learn more.
Date
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time
10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT
Location
Zoom
Coming Soon
2023 Scheudle
Meet Your Facilitator
Garrick Colwell
Garrick Colwell has been a Hospice Volunteer since 1987, providing respite care and as a hospice chaplain. He has also served as a volunteer on-call hospital chaplain.
Garrick is a Respecting Choices®, Person-Centered Care, First Steps®, Advance Care Planning Certified Instructor and Facilitator.
As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Garrick co-created with Hospice Austin Conversations On Grief, a monthly online grief education and support program. He is a Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler at grief.com. Garrick holds a Death and Grief Studies Certification from the Center for Loss and Life Transition under the direction of Alan D Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Garrick is a widower. During his late wife, Kinsloe’s five-year illness, Garrick was her patient advocate, full-time caregiver, and end of life companion. Recently he lost his dad.
Grief and Mourning Support Resources
Alan Wolfelt, Ph. D, CT
Alan Wolfelt, Ph. D, CT
Alan Wolfelt, Ph. D, CT
Author, educator, and grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt is known across North America for his inspirational teaching gifts.
https://www.centerforloss.com/
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The Golden Sweater: Free PDF download of the book, The Golden Sweater. The Golden Sweater is a book published by the National Alliance for Grieving Children, and it tells the story of a little boy named Kai, who learns how to navigate a loss in his family.
Teenage Grief Sucks A website written by grieving teens. Teens can read stories written from the perspective of their grieving peers. They can share their own stories as well.
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Slapd: Online community and website supporting teens who’ve lost a parent.
Grief in Pixar's Coco - WYG podcast episode
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The Widowed Parent Podcast - a whole podcast dedicated to parenting after the loss of a spouse or partner.
Dougy Center - The Right Place When Nothing Feels Right. When someone dies, it can feel like you’re alone in your grief. At Dougy Center, you will find support, resources, and connection before and after a death.