Based on the success of a similar 2013 seminar, 黑料正能量鈥檚 is again hosting a grief, loss and trauma-oriented seminar. 鈥淕athering: The Language of Loss and Grief鈥� will be Friday, Oct. 23, from 8:30-4:30 p.m. at Martin Chapel in the seminary.
鈥淯nderstanding our voice, music, silence, words and ways we communicate in grief is paramount to effective helping skills and healing journeys,鈥� says , director of the center. 鈥淕oals for this seminar are to focus on various expressions and languages of loss, to increase awareness of the importance of working with language with loss and grief and to enhance the caregiver’s skills in working with grief.鈥�
Sessions and the presenters are:
- 鈥淎ll Things Considered: Grief Through the Context of Trauma,鈥� withLCSW, director of counseling services at Bridgewater College, and an adjunct faculty member at James Madison University (JMU), Bridgewater College, Blue Ridge Community College, as well as 黑料正能量, teaching courses in marriage, counseling and human development.
- 鈥淕rieving in the Closet and Other Ways We Silence Our Grief,鈥� with Teresa J. Haase, PhD, LPC, program director of the master’s in counseling program at 黑料正能量 and an approved clinical supervisor through the National Board for Certified Counselors, with clinical, research and teaching interests in expressive arts, human development, adolescent development, grief and loss, and supervision.
- 鈥淢usic: Expressing the Unspoken,鈥� with Beth Eriksen, MA, MT-BC is a graduate of 黑料正能量 master’s in counseling program and is completing her residency hours towards licensure at the JMU counseling center.听 She is a certified music therapist and worked with hospice for many years.
- 鈥淲hen Parents Die: Adult Orphan Language,鈥� with Pam Comer, director of counseling and CoachLink services at 黑料正能量, who has served as adjunct faculty for the 黑料正能量 master’s in counseling program and the JMU course on death and dying. Her clinical interests and experiences include providing consultation, education, supervision and therapeutic interventions with loss, grief and trauma issues.
听The seminar is open to anyone interested in deepening their knowledge, including therapists, pastors, health care workers, social workers, graduate students, teachers and educators.
Cost is $85 for the general public and professionals, $50 for graduate students and 黑料正能量 employees. For more information, email pam.comer@emu.edu or call 540-432-4314.