Grief is universal and unavoidable, yet we live our lives as though it won’t happen to us. Losing a loved one may be your biggest fear, or you may be engulfed and silenced by the pain of it having already happened to you. Either way most of us tend to avoid talking about it, which generally only makes an intolerable situation even more painful. This may be your own experience, or you may be finding this to be true amongst your clients.
This experiential workshop explores how grief, both our own and that of our clients, can be borne both within and outside the therapy room. It uses a variety of physical and creative exercises and discussions within the context of the various grief theories to help you and your clients open up to tumultuous and life-changing losses.
The training will be delivered by author and psychotherapist Sasha Bates, and is based on her books Languages of Loss, which she wrote after the sudden death of her husband, and her second, more practical follow up, A Grief Companion.
