Moving our Minds and Bodies Through Grief: Experiential Techniques to Facilitate Healing from Loss

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Speaker

Paul Denniston, RYT 500 Related seminars and products

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Paul Denniston, RYT 500, is the founder of Grief Yoga, which he teaches to counselors, psychologists, and healthcare professionals. He certifies other yoga teachers in the Grief Yoga Teacher Training. He’s also the author of the bestselling book Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paul Denniston is the founder of Grief Yoga and has employment relationships with Core Power Yoga, The Yogi Tree, Esalen, 1440 Multiversity, and Kripalu Yoga Center. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paul Denniston has no relevant non-financial relationships.

David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE Related seminars and products

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David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE, is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and the founder of Grief.com. He leads grief certification programs for professionals and online groups for those in grief. He’s the author of seven books, including Finding Meaning and his newest, Finding Meaning Workbook: Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love, as well as the coauthor of several books with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Louise Hay. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is the co‑founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He maintains employment relationships with HSBC – London and Tender Hearts Grief Support Group. He is a published author and receives royalties from his publications, as well as compensation for his work as a lecturer. In addition, David Kessler receives speaking honoraria and recording and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Kessler has no relevant non-financial relationships.
 

Objectives

1. Evaluate techniques for using meaning to help clients resolve the internal struggle of “why did this happen and why to me?” and to move from “Why” to “How” can I move forward.
2. Develop and use tools for helping our clients address trauma, grief and the traumatic moment.
3. Assess how all losses impact one’s life, from death, divorce, job loss and the pandemic.
4. Utilize techniques on how to release grief that has become stuck in our body.

Outline

• New ways to help clients process their pain and suffering around loss
• Differentiate between witnessing and “fixing” grief in therapy
• Increase resilience and the possibility of post-traumatic growth
• Working with grief through the body and why it’s critical in grief work
• Learn simple movements that help release regrets, the “Why’s” and the guilt
• Core techniques for helping clients deal with traumatic grief
• Evaluate limitations of the research and potential risks in grief work

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners 
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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