Just as our grief is universal, the ineffective ways of dealing with it are also universal. These old, ineffective tools are “taught” in childhood unless the adults in our lives learn new – more effective tools. Often, the way we manage our grief is similar to the ways our parents and other key figures in

our lives managed theirs. In fact, sometimes these ineffective ways perpetuate for generations. In addition to parents and key family members, we also learn ineffective tools for dealing with grief from other key adults in as we grow up – teachers, clergy, coaches, counselors, the media, and tv and music personalities. When we learn more effective ways to recover from grief – we can then share and model those for the children in our lives.

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Our 4-meeting Helping Children with Loss is designed to help you through 

a step by step process – an “action program” - to identify and respect the emotional experience of your grief – both the immediate or presenting grief issue – and those that may have been holding you captive for years. By learning, modeling and teaching new, more effective, ways of responding to you grief, you can help the children in your life learn these tools at a younger age – resulting in less pent-up grief over the years to come.

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Helping Children with Loss is for adults - parents and family, teachers, coaches, counselors, youth pastors, daycare providers, etc. It is action-based program that involves reading and writing assignments. Each session is 90 minutes. You can attend a small group or one-on-one and both are online. This is not a "drop in" group. All four sessions build on previous sessions and all four sessions must be completed. 

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Agenda

Week 1: Grief and Grief Recovery~ Myths, Misinformation, STERBs.

Week 2: Unresolved Grief, Incomplete or Undelivered Emotional Communication, Recovery Components

Week 3: Emotional Energy Checklist, Recovery Components, Completion Letter, Language

Week 4: Completion Letter, Other Significant Losses, Emotionally Honest Language

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Size Limit: 5 participants

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Small Group Cost: $250/person

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One-on-One: 4 one-hour sessions, $350

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Resources:

When Children Grieve by John W. James, Russell Friedman and Leslie Landon Matthews

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