Help Clients Connect with Intention and Meaning in the Face of Loss
10 CE hours
How can people live with intention and vibrancy when they stand to lose someone they love—or perhaps even their own life?
The cultural messages we receive about death don’t often equip us to answer that question. We’re taught not to talk about it, to treat it as taboo, and to guard ourselves against the pain it can cause.
So, while loss is a reality of human experience, few people have effective tools for coping when they encounter it.
ACT for Grief and End-of-Life offers an uplifting vision of how to help those facing loss connect with purpose and vibrancy in their lives.
Whether a client is facing anxiety about their own death, anticipating the death of a loved one, or finding their way after a loss, you’ll learn how to take a compassionate, effective, and process-based approach to treatment.
In 5 live online sessions, author and expert Jennifer Gregg, PhD, will take ACT skills and boil them down to their most essential elements so you’ll have a better understanding of how to work with the various parts of the model in a way that’s sensitive to this specific context. This will allow you to:
- Help clients develop psychological flexibility skills without requiring them to talk about death
- Be braver and more confident when working with clients facing loss
- Have a better understanding of the possibilities open to you and your clients when working in this area—including with those experiencing complicated grief
- Facilitate deeper work while respecting the client’s boundaries and supporting a stronger therapeutic relationship
- Give clients tools to take valued actions in the present moment even in the face of fear, grief, difficult stories about what might have been, or other challenging experiences
Weekly sessions on Mondays from 4–6 p.m. Eastern Time, held over Zoom. Participants from all time zones are welcome. Recordings will be available if you can't make it live.