Live Interactive Webinar
Silent Suffering: Supporting Youth Grieving Stigmatized Loss
ZoomThis session will focus on supporting individuals who have experienced a stigmatized loss, including loss by suicide, homicide, and addiction. Presenters will review grief occurrence data for children and youth, along with practical understandings of relevant grief theories to guide practice with this bereaved population. As stigmatized loss is often accompanied by feelings of shame, […]
Compassion Fatigue in the Death Industry
ZoomWhile the value of compassion in deathcare has gained increased attention, it remains a neglected focus of training. Vicarious trauma leading to compassion fatigue is changing the way professionals think about self-care. Participants will explore how repeat exposure to traumatic deaths coupled with the constant output of empathy can affect their cognition and emotional balance, […]
The Future of Grief Camps: Themes and Standards in a Changing World
ZoomThere are so many ways we are seeing shifts in how we support youth and families experiencing grief, from shifting camp models to creating more accessibility throughout a program. While there is so much power in how diverse bereavement camps have become, it can also feel important to come back together as a field to […]
In Today’s World: Cultivating Collective Intercultural Wellbeing and a Sense of Belonging in the Community
ZoomIn today’s multiple pandemics of oppression, mass trauma, forced migration, COVID-19, and climate change, there is sustained traumatic stress with corresponding opportunities to heal. Historic, collective, and intergenerational trauma have spread dis-ease throughout human nature. Humanity has experienced more and more fragmentation, collective violence, and isolation. In this workshop attendees will begin to understand the […]
Creating the Container for Us: How to Hold Space for Ourselves and Each Other After a Student Death
ZoomHow might we build our skills and visions for how we will come together as staff after student loss? How might we make sense of school-based loss, and how that informs who we are as administrators, educators, clinicians, and youth advocates? When students die, we understandably and necessarily mobilize to support our surviving students, their […]
Data and Evaluation Training Series #5: Evaluation Design and Analysis
ZoomDownload the Slides → Given limited resources and stretched capacity, data collection procedures and program evaluation strategies at the individual program level often fall short in terms of identifying gaps in service, areas for growth, and program impact. Today, philanthropic giving demands a quantifiable return on investment in exchange for donations and grants. Combining nearly […]
Introduction to Grief Support Series | Beyond Risk Factors and Warning Signs: An Introduction to Suicide
ZoomSuicidology has been a distinct discipline for over half a century, yet suicide is still misunderstood as a symptom of psychiatric illness – treat the illness, suicidality will go away. This has never worked and suicide rates, particularly among Black youth in America, continue to climb (Jackson-Lowman et al., 2023). This is partly because of […]
Compassionate Leadership: Moving in and Through Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
ZoomCompassionate leadership shines a light on strengths-oriented, wellness-centered, trauma-informed practices as the foundation for our communications and organizational culture. This workshop will explore interpersonal and organizational strategies to enhance workplace wellness and collaboration, including leadership styles and how they impact our work, ideas for constructively giving and receiving feedback, and how to build a culture […]
Introduction to Grief Support Series | Grief Comes in All Shapes and Sizes
ZoomProfessionals working in the field of loss and bereavement are accustomed to supporting families in need after a death has occurred. Yet many families experience grief at the time of diagnosis leading up to the actual death. This reaction, otherwise known as anticipatory grief, is what families are immediately coping with as their world changes drastically. […]
Terrific or Terrifying? How to Engage Tweens in a Peer Support Grief Group
ZoomAre you afraid of tweens? There seems to be a universal belief that they are a bit of an anomaly. They lie in this no man’s land between child and teen. Their peers are the mirror they hold up to themselves and so is society and social media. The adolescent is trying to discover who […]
Introduction to Grief Support Series | Attachment Theory and the Enduring Impact on Grief
ZoomAttachment Theory offers profound insights into how individuals form and maintain emotional bonds, regulate their emotions, and adapt to change throughout their lives. From birth, our attachment style is formed within the context of relationships and influences our sense of self, identity, and values. When experiencing grief and loss, our attachment style directly impacts how […]
Data and Evaluation Series Training #6: Ethical Practices in Evaluation
ZoomGiven limited resources and stretched capacity, data collection procedures and program evaluation strategies at the individual program level often fall short in terms of identifying gaps in service, areas for growth, and program impact. Today, philanthropic giving demands a quantifiable return on investment in exchange for donations and grants. Combining nearly 20 years of experience […]