Who Am I Now Without You? A Toolkit for Self-Reconstruction in Bereavement

January 14-15, 2027

Singapore

Presented by

Robert A. Neimeyer

PhD

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

Carolyn Ng

PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR

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

EARLY BIRD till December 3, 2027

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

Although the death of a highly significant other naturally gives rise to grief over their loss, it also commonly confronts us with loss of parts of ourselves that were anchored in that relationship.  This 2-day workshop extends our previous training on the Loss of Another, Loss of the Self by expanding our clinical toolkit for addressing self-reconstruction in the wake of bereavement, offering opportunities to try out a range of written, verbal, visual and arts-assisted methods for recognizing how the loss of another can erode our own sense of identity, while also opening pathways for necessary change and growth.

We begin by introducing a research-based visual analogue task for assessing the degree to which the lost other was included in the self, and reflecting on which if any of the traces of the relationship remain with us still.  We then represent the masks of grief we often wear, and the possible discrepancy between the public selves that we project and the private selves that we protect.  Subsequent methods help us symbolize our shifting community of self across seasons of change, to voice our own inner wisdom about how to become the person we wish to be as we move into a changed future, and to acknowledge aspects of our own growth anchored in our continuing bond with the lost other.  Learners will complete the training with practical tools for assessing clients’ risks and resources stemming from their unique bond with the deceased, and several flexible procedures for fostering self-reconstruction in grief therapy.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Topical Overview

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Check out the other Onsite workshop on

Mourning to Meaning:
Advanced Dialogic Practices in Grief Therapy

on January 18-19, 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 14-15, 2027
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 December 3, 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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