Mourning to Meaning: Advanced Dialogic Practices in Grief Therapy

January 18-19, 2027

Singapore

Presented by

Carolyn Ng

PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR

Associate Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
Therapist, Anchorage for Loss and Transition

Robert A. Neimeyer

PhD

Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis

EARLY BIRD till December 7, 2026

Just SGD$900 for 2-day workshop! (Inclusive of lunch & 2 tea breaks)

Earn Credits for 2 Case Studies Lessons and 2 Practicum Lessons toward Certification in Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy
or Certification in Grief Therapy for Traumatic Loss

Offered by the Portland Institute.

As our clients teach us, grief therapy typically requires more than empathic listening, while waiting for time to heal the wounds of loss.  This 2-day workshop offers a close process analysis of two cases, as vehicles for demonstrating creative interventions tailored to the unique needs of quite different clients, one dealing with a normative loss of a partner to illness in later life, and the second with the traumatic loss of not one but two children in the perinatal period.

On Day 1, we meet Loretta, contending with profound loneliness in the aftermath of the death of her husband of over 50 years.  In keeping with a Continuing Bonds approach to accessing the relationship with the deceased as a resource in grief therapy, presenter Robert Neimeyer invites a spontaneous and appreciative Re-membering Conversation about their special connection, followed by a Symptom Dialogue that facilitates Loretta’s conversation with a personified version of her loneliness to learn more about its function in her life now.  Learners are then given clear instructions for both techniques, with an opportunity to practice them under the mentoring of faculty.

On Day 2, we meet Christina, following a tragically compounded bereavement in the context of infertility treatment.  After retelling the traumatic story of multiple loss, Christina focuses on the struggle to retain attachment to a dead child she could scarcely hold outside her womb, and Neimeyer guides her in an Embodied Dialogue to help install a more internalized bond.  Learners will then have the opportunity for mentored practice with this core technique, as well as to discuss theory and research supporting both days of training.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Topical Overview

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Check out the other Onsite workshop on
on January 14-15, 2027

GRIEF TRAINING FACULTY​

Carolyn Ng

PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR
Singapore / Portland, OR, United States

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).  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 approach with individuals, couples and families in both pre- and post-loss contexts, with an emphasis on conversational and art-assisted approaches for fostering new meaning and action.

Find out more at: www.anchorage-for-loss.org.

Robert A. Neimeyer

PhD
Portland, OR, United States

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is 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, which provides online training internationally in grief therapy.  Neimeyer has published 37 books, including Living Beyond Loss:  Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement, New Techniques of Grief Therapy:  Bereavement and Beyond and The Handbook of Grief Therapies, and serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of over 600 articles and book chapters, he has been recognized in the Stanford University/Elsevier list of Top 2% Scientists in the world and the top .05% of all living scholars, according to Scholar GPS, with over 60,000 citations to his work according to Google Scholar. 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. Neimeyer is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.

 

GRIEF TRAINING WORKSHOP DETAILS

Dates:  January 18-19, 2027
Time:   9am – 5pm
Venue:  Lifelong Learning Institute
For enquiries, please call: 6425-2422

WORKSHOP FEE

Regular Fee: SGD$975
Early Bird: SGD$900

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EARLY BIRD till December 7, 2026
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.  

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