All Things Grief!
Virtual Learning Sessions
Suicide Survivors: Being present for those who are experiencing indescribable grief
1) Gain an understanding of important statistics about suicide.
2) Identify terminology that is more appropriate and accurate around issues of suicide.
3) Learn the concept of psychache and suicidal ideation.
4) Learn ways to be present to suicide survivors.
Presented by: Marc Markell, Ph.D.
LGBTQ+ and Grief: Uniqueness and Loss in the Face of Oppression
1) Define terms used to identify LGBTQ+ people.
2) Identify experiences that could make grief for LGBTQ+ people unique.
3) Learn ways to support LGBTQ+ people who are grieving.
Presented by: Mark Markell, Ph.D.
Professional Grief and Self-Care
1) Define Professional Grief and understand how professional grief differs from personal grief
2) Understand the ways the loss of a patient or resident can affect you as a professional
3) Learn strategies for self-care and positive coping methods when dealing with professional grief to reduce compassion fatigue and burnout
4) Recognize the impact of COVID-19 on professional grief.
Presented by: Jessica Steele, LICSW, Grace Hospice
You Can’t Just Shake It Off: What Taylor Swift Doesn’t Understand about Trauma and Secondary Trauma
1) Identify the different stress disorders practitioners may experience
2) Recognize the different symptoms of burnout and secondary traumatic stress
3) Implement stress-prevention and self-care strategies into your daily practice
Presented by: Ann Gaasch, CEO, FamilyWise
Ambiguous Loss: Attending to the Provider’s Experience
1) Recognize how the provider’s personal experience(s) of loss intersects with grief-oriented work.
2) Practice and post-presentation apply reflective process and interventions for ambiguous loss .
3) Identify ways to build provider resilience throughout grief related work.
Presented by: Dr. Heidi Bausch-Ryan and Dr. Kierst Finsand, CARE Counseling
The Impacts of Suicide Loss on the Family System
1) Understand how to provide well rounded support to survivors of suicide loss through a trauma centered lens.
2) Learn how in suicide loss, grief and trauma grows and changes just like the children who are impacted by the loss.
3) Understand how a well-rounded team needs to be present for the entire family unit.
Presented by: Dr. Bridget Gehrz, Integrative Nursing
Navigating Grief after Child Loss as a Medical Provider
1) Identify additional challenges navigating grief as both a bereaved parent and medical provider.
2) Have awareness of ways to support and inclusion when a colleague loses a child or other profound loss/grief.
3) Identify ways to create, maintain, and support human connection in setting of death/bereavement/grief as medical providers when a patient dies.
Presented by: Melissa Boggio, NP, University of Minnesota Physicians
Call of Purpose and Passion: When You Choose to Work with Ill, Dying, and Grieving People
1) Explore emotional rewards and challenges in supporting patients/clients and their families during illness, the process of death, and grief.
2) Discover ways mental healthcare providers impact the lives of people who are ill, dying, and grieving.
3) Gather solid information about how healthcare workers and therapists create restorative practices to support personal and professional compassion in heavy, life changing health issues, death, grief, and loss.
Presented by: Stacey Allen, LMFT, InMind Health
Navigating Youth Grief through Therapeutic Play and Art.
1) Learn common reactions to death and non-death grief from birth to 18 yrs.
2) Learn potential interventions to support children and teens throughout their grief process.
3) Understand how this type of grief support will increase long term coping for children and teens.
Presented by: Laura Sufka, CCLS, Children’s Coping Connection
Grieving a Loss That Is Not Always Deemed Worthy of Grief
1) Learn what disenfranchised grief is and how common it is.
2) Understand several types of losses that are not always acknowledged by society or deemed worthy of grieving.
3) Acquire the ability to give your grief a voice and the importance of your grief experience.
Presented by: Michele DeVille, Founder, Dare to Grieve
Ambiguous Grief and Loss – Supporting Mothers with a Loss of Parental Rights
1) Understand the concept of ambiguous grief and loss to
2) Identify how/why society traditionally and unfairly stigmatizes mothers with TPRs/TOCs
3) Identify the impact of treating/not treating ambiguous grief in women who have lost their parental rights.
Presented by: Kelly Tronstad, Executive Director, Bellis
Finding Hope in Alzheimer’s Disease
1) Gain an understanding of common emotional reactions after someone receives diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or another dementia.
2) Understand definition and effects of ambiguous loss, and how this presents itself during each stage.
3) Learn how resilience, paradoxical thinking, and hope can treat distress related to caregiving.
Presented by: Heidi Haley-Franklin, LICSW, Alzheimer’s Association
Grief through Art and Storytelling
1) Utilize active listening skills to witness another person’s story.
2) Participate in two to three storytelling exercises that can be used with your clients.
3) Understand how artists and non-artists utilize the arts to manage, cope, and express grief. Presented by: Jessica Steele, LICSW, Grace Hospice
Presented by: Kris Frykman, Journey through the Arts
Who Am I Now? A Brother? A Sister? Sibling Loss During Childhood and Adolescence
1) Identify different developmental stages that pertain to sibling loss.
2) Identify what children and adolescents need after the death of a sibling.
3) Understand the importance of helping children and adolescents process their experience of losing a sibling to death.
Presented by: Marc Markell, Ph.D.
Lightening the Load: Finding Humor and Healing in Grieving Rituals
1) Understand the Role of Rituals in Grieving
2) Identify the Benefits of Humor in Healing
3) Develop Skills to Support Others in Grief
Presented by: Heather Boll, The Hive Healing Arts
Teaching Self-Care for Professionals in Grief
1) Identify common somatic expressions of grief and discuss their unique challenges.
2) Develop a toolbox of creative movements to help attend to somatic experiences.
3) Examine how these mindful movements can help facilitate healthy and compassionate grief support.
Presented by: Kiri Meyer, LICSW, Eluna Network
Children’s Grief Awareness Day
1) Explore the background, mission, and vision of Children’s Grief Awareness Day.
2) Gain an understanding of the positive impact of community support on the grief of children and families.
3) Learn actionable strategies for bringing Children’s Grief Awareness Day initiatives to their community.
Presented by: Krista Ball and Nathan Marshall, Highmark Caring Place
Anticipatory Support for a Controlled or Hastened Death
1) Learn the definitions of and options for a hastened death.
2) Learn the legal, ethical, and moral implications of a hastened death in Minnesota.
3) Understand opposition to death with dignity by religious and government authorities.
Presented by: Kevin Bradley, Final Exit Network
Helping Clients Process Loss
1) Gain clarity on the specific differences between coaching, consulting, and counseling.
2) Understand how to assess the most appropriate model(s) to employ with a grieving client.
3) Learn how to assess their own strengths and challenges to have self-awareness to support their grieving client most effectively.
4) Understand the 7 steps of the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Coaching Model for Grief, including tools and techniques they can use within their own practice.
Presented by: Pat Sheveland, The Confident Grief Coach
