EVENTS & CLASSES
Minimum enrollment required for most group events
*** Any course or class cancellations incur a $50 administrative fee. Tuition can be applied to any private sessions or other offerings. ***
2024 Events
Dia de Muertos
Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2024 | Degriefing Certification Intensive - Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Degriefing 5-Day Certification Intensive
- Level 1, 40Hrs.
- San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- All training materials included
- $2,250 USD (lodging separate); One partial scholarship available.
- 20% Early Bird discount …paid in full by 8/10, 2024
- 15% Early Bird discount …paid in full by 9/10, 2024
- 10% Early Bird discount …paid in full by 9/30, 2024
- If you live on the Peso –Let’s talk!
- Download flyer
Heartfully Speaking:
The experiential nature of this training; incorporating integrative therapies,
partner exercises, group sessions and communication practices indicates a physical closeness that commands tremendous respect for honoring trust, confidentiality, personal safety and well-being. If for some last minute health related reason you truly cannot aiend, a 80% refund will be granted.
Dr. Lyn Prashant, FT, Soma)c Thanatologist, Integra)ve Bereavement Specialist, CMT Instructor and Massage teacher, founded Degriefing®: Integrative Grief Therapy. Lyn trains, counsels, consults, mentors internationally, working with loss of any kind. Lyn is a bi-lingual Certified Grief Counselor (John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology) and an ADEC Fellow in Thanatology, (death, dying/bereavement educator) with over 34 years experience in the field.
A former UC Berkeley curriculum writer and professor, she is the author of “Degriefing Caregiver Burden” in Dr. Robert Neimeyer’s Techniques in Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved, (Routledge, 2012) Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan” Routledge, (2016.) Lyn also wrote ‘Transforming Somatic Grief’:training manual for her work. (International Magazines, YouTube, TV)
This course provides participants with information, skills and resources to identify and efficiently work with grief and the grieving process, address psychological and somatic aspects of grief, and employ integrative therapies for transformation. We combine didactic teaching segments and expressive arts activities while we immerse ourselves in the Mexican Fiesta and Cultural Celebration of this holiday. >read article
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
- Recognize the subtleties and complexities of the somatic aspects of grief
- Explore/investigate one’s personal relationship to their own losses with mindfulness
- Identify the impact of traumatic grief on professional and personal interactions
- Integrate/Employ Expressive Arts tools into one’s personal-care practice (oils/collage/massage/yoga)
- Distinguish and address the differences between primary and secondary losses
- Prevent Compathy: compassion/empathy fatigue, burnout, bereavement overload
- Practice blending and applying aromatherapeutic oils for your well being
- Discuss the impact of ‘Solastagia’ (extinction and global grief) on personal loss
- Discover unresolved/embodied grief and see how it relates to your story of loss
- Note societal advances, losses and gains from social media’s impact on human beings
- Spotlight Focus: Cultural Competence: the ability to understand, interact, relate well with people of different cultures. (I.D.T inter-disciplinary-team communication group work)
Who is Invited?
Individuals in the field of health care, hospice, counseling, mental health, spirituality, doulas, professional/family caregiving, safety, law, government, justice, education, addiction specialists, funeral services personnel, chaplains, EOL specialists, foreign service personnel. And if you are
Interested primarily for personal reasons/development, please call Lyn.
This program is not recommended for the newly bereaved.
- A phone interview/consultation with Lyn is required prior to registration.
- Minimum enrollment (6) required to hold the training
- Maximum enrollment is (12) participants
- Certificate of Excellence awarded after successful completion of examination.
Nov. 5-9, 2024 | Professional Mentorship Practicum
The Degriefing Professional Mentorship Practcum is an interactive experience:
- Builds upon the foundational premises of the Level I IGT Training, offering Degriefing Level II status
- Serves as a full spectrum immersion of “functional somatic thanatology” for accomplished practioners to combine IGT with their present professional service
- Offers Degriefing: Integrative Grief Therapy skills to incorporate into your present work
$2250.00 USD (all training materials included). Lodging separate.
- Two Partial scholarships available.
- Live on the Peso?—let’s talk!
- Certificate of Excellence awarded after successful completion of comprehension/application quiz
- 20% Early Bird discount …Fully paid by 8/10, 2024
- 15% Early Bird discount …Fully paid by 9/10, 2024
- 10% Early Bird discount …Fully paid by 9/30, 2024
- 20% Early Bird discount: Enroll in both events and save another $300.00 USD
see FLYER
November 18, 2024 | ONLINE Degriefing - Caregiver Burden for Healthcare Professionals
Degriefing Caregiver Burden
Mini Grief Relief Seminar for Healthcare Professionals, Physical Therapists, Massage Practioners, Family Caregivers, Coaches, Trainers, Administrators
- 10:00 AM-5:00 PM CST
- 6.0 hour seminar
- Intended for individuals dealing with loss
- Phone interview and minimum enrollment required
- Please have a light lunch handy
- $165 USD
December 21, 2024: ONLINE - Winter Solstice, A Day of Degriefing for the Bereaved
- 6.0 hour seminar, 9am-12noon and 1pm-4pm
- This workshop is intended for the individuals dealing with loss
- Phone interview and minimum enrolment required
- Please have a light lunch handy
- $165 USD
2025 Events
All 2025 Classes Discounts:
- paid 90 days in advance = save 20%
- paid 60 days in advance = save 15%
- paid 30 days in advance = save 10%
can not be combined with any other discounts; to take advantage of discounts, you must call.
Will Travel to You! | 12 Participants or more
Degriefing: Integrative Grief Therapy Seminar or Training
- Call Lyn for group pricing
January 9, 16, 23, 30 2025 ONLINE Four Weeks to Grief Relief for 2nd & 3rd Yr Loss
- 5:00-7:30 pm CST
- 10 hours
- Phone consult required
- $365 USD
February: Date TBA - Tools for Transforming Our Grief| IN PERSON
- FREE Presentation
November 5-9, 2024 & March 3-7, 2025 | Professional Mentorship Practicum
Invitees are:
- Individuals who have completed a Level I , 5-Day Intensive OR intend to do so this November
- Degriefing mentees, professional coaching students currently in training with me
- Skilled professional intending to incorporate the Degriefing: IGT work into their present practice
- $2,250 USD
March 21-23, 2025 IN PERSON - "Hands On" Healthcare Professionals & Caregivers
- location: San Miguel de Allende
- physical therapists, massage therapists, nurses, occupational therapists, chiropractors, accupuncturists
- 16-hour intensive
- 9:00 am – 6:00 pm CST
- $455 USD
March - August ONLINE - 6-month Professional Mentoring Work Group
- Making Meaning: “Conscious Living/Conscious Dying”
- 3rd Thursday monthly: 3/20, 4/17, 5/15, 6/19, 7/17, 8/21, & Review 10/20
- 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CST
- phone/Zoom interview required
- $150/session ($900) USD; $825 in advance
May 4, 2025 ONLINE - "Mother Loss": A Day of Degriefing for the Bereaved
- Grief Relief Seminar
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm CST
- $165 USD
May 26-30, 2025 IN PERSON - "Memorial Day" Degriefing IGT Certification Intensive
- location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- Level I, 5-Day
- $2,250 USD
June 13, 2025 ONLINE - Father Loss: A Day of Degriefing for the Bereaved
- Grief Relief Seminar
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm CST
- $165 USD
July 11, 2025 ONLINE - Sibling Loss: A Day of Degriefing for the Bereaved
- Grief Relief Seminar
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm CST
- $165 USD
July 24, 25, 26, 2025 IN PERSON - Non-Residential 3-Day Grief-Relief Retreat
- location: San Miguel de Allende
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm CST
- 18 hours
- minimum enrollment required 30 days in advance to secure event
- maximum enrollment is 12 participants
- telephone interview required prior to registration
- one partial scholarship available
- $455 USD
October 3, 2025 IN PERSON - Honoring Our Losses during Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- 6-hour seminar
- 9:00 am – 12:00 and 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm CST
- bring your own lunch
- for individuals dealing with loss of any kind
- telephone interview required prior to registration
- minimum enrollment required
- $165 USD
October 30-November 3, 2025 - Day of the Dead Integrative Grief Therapy Certification Intensive
Day of the Dead
Degriefing 5-Day Certification Intensive
- Level 1, 40Hrs.
- San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- All training materials included
- $2,250 USD (lodging separate); One partial scholarship available
- If you live on the Peso –Let’s talk!
- Download flyer
Heartfully Speaking:
The experiential nature of this training; incorporating integrative therapies,
partner exercises, group sessions and communication practices indicates a physical closeness that commands tremendous respect for honoring trust, confidentiality, personal safety and well-being. If for some last minute health related reason you truly cannot aiend, a 80% refund will be granted.
Dr. Lyn Prashant, FT, Soma)c Thanatologist, Integra)ve Bereavement Specialist, CMT Instructor and Massage teacher, founded Degriefing®: Integrative Grief Therapy. Lyn trains, counsels, consults, mentors internationally, working with loss of any kind. Lyn is a bi-lingual Certified Grief Counselor (John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology) and an ADEC Fellow in Thanatology, (death, dying/bereavement educator) with over 34 years experience in the field.
A former UC Berkeley curriculum writer and professor, she is the author of “Degriefing Caregiver Burden” in Dr. Robert Neimeyer’s Techniques in Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved, (Routledge, 2012) Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan” Routledge, (2016.) Lyn also wrote ‘Transforming Somatic Grief’:training manual for her work. (International Magazines, YouTube, TV)
This course provides participants with information, skills and resources to identify and efficiently work with grief and the grieving process, address psychological and somatic aspects of grief, and employ integrative therapies for transformation. We combine didactic teaching segments and expressive arts activities while we immerse ourselves in the Mexican Fiesta and Cultural Celebration of this holiday. >read article
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
- Recognize the subtleties and complexities of the somatic aspects of grief
- Explore/investigate one’s personal relationship to their own losses with mindfulness
- Identify the impact of traumatic grief on professional and personal interactions
- Integrate/Employ Expressive Arts tools into one’s personal-care practice (oils/collage/massage/yoga)
- Distinguish and address the differences between primary and secondary losses
- Prevent Compathy: compassion/empathy fatigue, burnout, bereavement overload
- Practice blending and applying aromatherapeutic oils for your well being
- Discuss the impact of ‘Solastagia’ (extinction and global grief) on personal loss
- Discover unresolved/embodied grief and see how it relates to your story of loss
- Note societal advances, losses and gains from social media’s impact on human beings
- Spotlight Focus: Cultural Competence: the ability to understand, interact, relate well with people of different cultures. (I.D.T inter-disciplinary-team communication group work)
Who is Invited?
Individuals in the field of health care, hospice, counseling, mental health, spirituality, doulas, professional/family caregiving, safety, law, government, justice, education, addiction specialists, funeral services personnel, chaplains, EOL specialists, foreign service personnel. And if you are
Interested primarily for personal reasons/development, please call Lyn.
This program is not recommended for the newly bereaved.
- A phone interview/consultation with Lyn is required prior to registration.
- Minimum enrollment (6) required to hold the training
- Maximum enrollment is (12) participants
- Certificate of Excellence awarded after successful completion of examination.