Bereavement Support Group Start-Up Package
For bereavement support group leaders and participants, this package contains two copies of The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide and ten copies each of Understanding Your Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal.
2012: December 3-6
2013: December 2-5
Enthusiasm for bereavement support group counseling has burgeoned in recent years. And, while training opportunities that advance our understanding of the bereavement process have become more available recently, less work has been done on the support group models of care. This seminar helps fill this gap; topics covered will include:
- Support group leadership skills
- Barriers to effectiveness in support group counseling
- Detailed guidelines for operational practices (such as size of group, length and frequency of sessions)
- Development of ground rules
- Distinguishing open-ended from closed-ended groups
- Elements of pre-screening group members
- Intervening with disruptive group members
- Publicizing your group
This training will also include instruction in a support group model delineated in Alan’s book Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart. Participants will receive a copy of The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide.
All 4-Day Trainings in Colorado:
- Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training
- Counseling Skills Fundamentals
- Exploring the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief
- Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Death, Grief and Mourning
- Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief
- Living with Meaning and Purpose in Your Life
- Suicide Grief: Companioning the Mourner
- Support Group Facilitator Training
- Understanding and Responding to Complicated Mourning
