Bereavement Training for Professionals
In association with Living through Loss Counselling Society of BC the Vancouver Center for Loss & Bereavement, will be providing training for social workers, teachers, funeral home employees, school counselors, crisis workers, therapists, palliative care nurses, or any individual who wants to explore bereavement issues related to their clients or communities.
Training will cover:
- Understanding “the brain on grief” and impact on grievers; effective interventions, e.g. EMDR, Nuerofeedback
- Reality therapy: examination of an effective model for working in bereavement and grief
- Suicide: in depth examination of suicide including assisted suicide
- Loss of Health: disease and aging issues are explored in depth
- Community Grief: impact of global & constant public violence, grief and the importance of ritual in healing
- Resilience & Self care: Effective interventions for therapists/counsellors in on-going work with grievers.
The course is highly interactive with opportunity to role play and review participant cases relating to grief & loss. The sessions are facilitated by a grief and loss therapist/trainer from the Center & Living through Loss Counselling Society of BC.
A certificate will be awarded upon completion of the training.
Cost: $525.00 (includes materials)
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (Monday evenings)
Questions: Contact Us
Note: The group has a limited enrollment.