EXPLORING THE BEREAVEMENT JOURNEY:
AN EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP
The following professional training is being offered by New Open Center New York, NY and open for registration:
Exploring the Bereavement Journey: An Experiential Workshop
Art of Dying Institute, Integrative Thanatology Certificate Program
New York Open Center, New York, NY
APRIL 14-15, 2018
SUN-MON 10 AM to 5 PM
CEU’ s available.
www.opencenter.org
Death is an inevitable dimension of life, often laden with deep and confusing human emotions. Yet by encountering the reality of death with humility, honesty and integrity, it is possible to develop a much deeper appreciation of the meaning of life itself.
Through a variety of learning modalities including lecture, discussion, videos, personal sharing, journal writing, meditation and other self-awareness exercises, we will focus on four inter-related areas:
1) Personal Grief Journey
2) The Psychology of Death and Bereavement
3) Specific Skills in Counseling the Dying and Bereaved, and
4) Mortality, Life After Death and Questions of “Ultimate Concern”
Specific course goals will be:
i) to expand each person’s comfort level and repertoire of skills in working with the dying and the bereaved, and
ii) to facilitate the process of exploring individual reactions and responses to the human encounter with death.
Some believe they have no grief. This is another aspect of our rigid denial and self-protection.
Everyone has grief. Everyone seems to have some unbalanced tally sheet with life, some unfinished business. An incompleteness with the past and with ourselves, a fatiguing self-consciousness, the predominant theme of the unfinished symphony of mind’s yearning.
Our grief manifests as self-judgment, as fear, as guilt, as anger, as blame. . . Our grief is our fear of loss, our fear of the unknown, our fear of death. Grief is the rope burns left behind when what we have held to most dearly is pulled out of reach, beyond our grasp.