When Dying Is Well Accompanied: A Quest for Meaning in Terminal Illness

13-14 July 2026

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 1 June 2026

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

Earn Credits for 2 Orientation Modules and 2 Techniques Modules toward Certification in Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy
or Certification in Family-Focused Grief Therapy
Offered by the Portland Institute.

In the face of the bad news of being diagnosed with a terminal illness, patients often have to face both their own impending death and separation from their loved ones through different dying trajectories, which can be swift or protracted.  This complex emotional journey often triggers existential crisis, death anxiety and pre-death grief in a way that calls for professional psychological attention.  In this workshop, we will examine terminal illness and its implications from the 4-Dimensional Framework of Meaning Reconstruction that reviews the event story of the illness, the relational story between patients and their significant ones, the personal story of the self, and the existential story of life.  We will also address death anxiety, distress related to unfinished business with significant people in life, and pre-death grief experienced by those diagnosed with a terminal illness.  Through various small group practices and discussion, learners will become acquainted with relevant meaning-focused intervention tools to facilitate conversations about life and death and life review with these clients, and to preserve and enhance their sense of dignity, as they learn to cope with their dying trajectory and face their eventual death.

Topical Overview

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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Check out the other Onsite workshop on
on 9-10 July 2026

GRIEF TRAINING FACULTY​

Carolyn Ng

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.

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD

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.

 

GRIEF TRAINING WORKSHOP DETAILS

Dates:  13-14 July 2026
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 1 June 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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