EVENTS & CLASSES

Degriefing Caregiver Burden

Mini Grief Relief Seminar for Healthcare Professionals, Physical Therapists, Massage Practioners, Family Caregivers, Coaches, Trainers, Administrators

• Q & A for Curious Case Studies
• 10:00 AM-2:00 PM CST
• $99 USD

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So What’s Your Grief?

• 5:00-7:00 PM CST
• (8) hours total
• Not for the newly bereaved. Phone consultation required
• $165 USD

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2nd Year Grief Group: Four Weeks to Grief Relief

• 5:00 PM-7:00 PM CST
• (8) hours total
• Phone/Zoom Interview required pre-enrollment
• Not for newly bereaved
• $165 USD

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Mother Loss: Degriefing for the Bereaved

• Grief Relief Seminar
• 11:00 AM-2:30 PM CST
• Minimum Enrollment Required
• $85 USD; One partial scholarship available

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MOTHER LOSS/FATHER LOSS – A Day of Degriefing® for the Bereaved

Lyn Prashant, the founder of the Degriefing process, offers an integrative approach to grief therapy and grief counseling. She will provide practical techniques and useful strategies to cope with the fluctuating physical and emotional symptoms of bereavement.

The schedule will alternate theoretical information to normalize grief with experiential activities to “meet each individual exactly where they are.”

Participants will:

• Receive information about the grief process and its physical symptoms
• Begin to normalize their relationship to the loss
• Have an opportunity for self-reflection
• Practice integrative tools for addressing and relieving grief
• Email a picture or object that represents their losses

Father Loss: Degriefing for the Bereaved

• Grief Relief Seminar
• 11:00 AM-2:30 PM CST
• Minimum enrollment required; Maximum (12) participants
• Phone interview required for individuals with less than (9) months post loss
• $85 USD; One partial scholarship available

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Lyn Prashant, the founder of the Degriefing process, offers an integrative approach to grief therapy and grief counseling. She will provide practical techniques and useful strategies to cope with the fluctuating physical and emotional symptoms of bereavement.

The schedule will alternate theoretical information to normalize grief with experiential activities to “meet each individual exactly where they are.”

Participants will:

• Receive information about the grief process and its physical symptoms 
• Begin to normalize their relationship to the loss
• Have an opportunity for self-reflection
• Bring a picture or object that represents their loss
• Practice integrative tools for addressing and relieving grief

Degriefing 5-Day Certification Intensive

• Level 1, 40Hrs.
• San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
• All training materials included
• $2,400 USD (lodging separate); One partial scholarship available.
  • 20% Early Bird discount …paid in full by July 30, 2024
  • 15% Early Bird discount …paid in full by August 30, 2024
  • 10% Early Bird discount …paid in full by September 30, 2024
• If you live on the Peso –Let’s talk!
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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.

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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.

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.

Degriefing Caregiver Burden

Mini Grief Relief Seminar for Healthcare Professionals, Physical Therapists, Massage Practioners, Family Caregivers, Coaches, Trainers, Administrators

• Q & A for Curious Case Studies
• 10:00 AM-2:00 PM CST
• $99 USD

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