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Techniques of Grief Therapy Series:
An Attachment-Informed Approach to Grief & Loss
Earn Credits for 1 Core Course for
all PI Certification Programmes
and 2 Techniques Modules toward
Certification in Grief Therapy as Meaning Reconstruction, Certification in Family-Focused Grief Therapy or
Certification in Grief Therapy for Suicide Bereavement
Offered by the Portland Institute.
Presented by
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis
Death may end a life but not necessarily a relationship. In the course of counselling, you may come across clients who struggle with yearning for their deceased loved one or some forms of unfinished business that remain unaddressed, especially in difficult losses like suicide and tragic accidents. Drawing on attachment-informed models of bereavement and the Tripartite Model of Meaning Reconstruction, this training will consider grieving as a process of reconstructing rather than relinquishing one’s continuing bond with the deceased. This will also equip learners with the relevant meaning-oriented techniques to enable clients to review their disrupted bond and realign their positioning with the lost attachment figure in the aftermath of loss.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Conceptualize the impacts of separation on grievers from the attachment perspective
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Identify dimensions of insecure attachment and unfinished business that complicate the post-separation adjustment
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Implement meaning-oriented techniques to re-establish grievers’ attachment security and reconstruct their bond with the lost attachment figure
GRIEF COUNSELLING TOPICS COVERED
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Understanding grief and loss through attachment lens
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Differentiation between continuing bond and maladaptive bondage
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Application of Secure Base Mapping to identify resources to promote adaptation to life transitions
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Use of Our Braided Paths, a guided conversation, to examine the relationship history
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Use of Tree of Legacy as a means for continuing bond in death-related losses
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Implementation of imaginal dialogues to process the unfinished business
Come and Join Us!
Check out the other onsite workshop on
Pre-Death Grief & Loss Series:
A Quest for Meaning in Terminal Illness
on 16-17 January 2025.
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Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
GRIEF TRAINING FACULTY
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice. He also directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (www.portlandinstitute.org), which provides online training internationally in grief therapy. Neimeyer has published 33 books, including New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond, and serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of over 500 articles and book chapters and a frequent workshop presenter, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. Neimeyer served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and Chair of the International Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he has been granted the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both ADEC and the International Network on Personal Meaning.
Carolyn Ng, PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition, for training, supervision and therapy in Singapore, while also serving as an Associate Director of the Portland Institute. Previously she served as Principal Counsellor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specialising in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling. She is a registered counsellor, master clinical member and approved supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA, as well as a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, Australia. She is a trained end-of-life doula and advanced care planning facilitator. She is also trained in the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, USA, community crisis response by the National Organisation for Victim Assistance (NOVA), USA, as well as Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks, Canada. Her recent writing concerns meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction with bereaved families, with an emphasis on conversational approaches for fostering new meaning and action.Find out more at: www.anchorage-for-loss.org.
Carolyn Ng,
PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR
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GRIEF TRAINING WORKSHOP DETAILS
Dates: 20-21 January 2025
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Lifelong Learning Institute
For enquiries, please call: 6425-2422
WORKSHOP FEE
Regular Fee: SGD$975
Early Bird: SGD$900
~ Check with AHD for PCG status ~
EARLY BIRD till 5 December 2024
Just SGD$900 for 2-day workshop!
(Inclusive of lunch & 2 tea breaks)
For workshop enquiries and registration, please email davegoh@ahd.com.sg.
For certification enquiries, please email carolyn@portlandinstitute.org.
In collaboration with the Academy of Human Development (AHD) in Singapore, PI provides multiple training series in Meaning Reconstruction Grief Therapy for professionals from diverse disciplines.
