David Kessler on Healing Grief & Loss – David Kessler

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How the 5 Stages of Grief Help—and Their Misuse can Hurt—Your Clients

As a trained therapist, you’re likely familiar with the pivotal work of Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her model of the 5 stages of dying.

Elisabeth knew they were being misinterpreted. So, she recruited her friend David Kessler to co-author a book adapting her stages of dying to stages of grief. The result was the classic book, On Grief and Grieving.

The profound effect of the 5 Stages of Grief cannot be overstated. It has been instrumental in helping therapists around the world help their clients through grief. They give a reassuring structure to the unknown terrain of grief.

However, the “stages model” has created some misuse and simplification that Elisabeth never intended…

Such as the expectation that these stages are linear…

That people in grief move smoothly and simply from one stage to the next on a neat little timeline, with no overlap or backtracking.

The truth is, people in grief cannot—and should not—be classified by stage. Nor should we expect them to be further along in their grief than they are.

Grief just doesn’t work that way.

Elisabeth and David stressed that grief is highly personal. It’s messy. It defies logic and timelines and deadlines.

And yet, people still say well-meaning, hurtful things like, “It’s been a year, shouldn’t you be over him by now?”

Tone-deaf comments like these happen ALL the time because as a society, we don’t know how to talk about death. People are so uncomfortable with it they try to skip over it, and get others to do the same.

Fortunately, world-renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, who worked by her side, has pioneered new methods and tools to help you better understand the art and science of caring for the grieving…

So you can help your clients create a healthy grieving process.

David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss. He’s written five bestselling books on the subject. He’s also coauthored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief & Grieving and Life Lessons.

He’s worked with Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Carrie Fisher after their loved ones died. He’s worked with survivors of 9/11 and the Las Vegas shooting in 2017, and with the parents of Sandy Hook Elementary school students.

There are few people better qualified to teach these innovative counseling methods than David Kessler.

Discover Cutting-Edge Guidelines of Grief Treatment

These new approaches have evolved the 5 Stages Model, as well as other models, and are designed to help you meet your clients where they are in the grieving process—without classifying them or putting them on a timeline.

They give you the tools and language to talk with your clients about grief and grieving in deeper, more meaningful ways…

So your clients can feel free of internal judgment and shame, thinking they should be “grieving better” than they are because they’re making others uncomfortable.

You can access these breakthrough methods and grief treatments in an important, comprehensive course:

In David Kessler on Healing Grief and Loss, you’ll explore:

• The dynamics of different types of grief and the healing processes associated with each
• Age-appropriate grieving milestones that occur across the lifespan
• The somatic responses to grief, and how to identify and manage residual grief in the body
• Why children are often the “forgotten grievers,” and strategies that can help this population
• The effectiveness of positive psychology interventions in treating grief
• The relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process
• And SO much more!

To give you a comprehensive overview of these treatments methods and guidelines, David Kessler takes you through 13 unique and fascinating modules:

MODULE #1: How Death Shapes Each Type of Grief

• Delayed
• Disenfranchised
• Ambiguous
• Inconclusive
• Complicated
• Average response
• Resilience

MODULE #2: Trauma

• How we often re-traumatize ourselves in grief
• Discover the difference between releasing grief and replaying traumatic events
• How vicarious trauma can affect the clinician

MODULE #3: Positive Psychology and Grief

• Understand how positive psychology can be used in healing grief
• Understand why clients may treat themselves harshly in grief
• Discover new ways to decrease suffering after a loss

MODULE #4: Anticipatory Grief

• Discover treatment strategies that work
• Learn how to use certain tools to help normalize anticipatory grief for your clients
• Instead of asking, “How are you?” ask this question instead…

MODULE #5: The 5 Stages of Grief and How They Influence Our Healing After Loss

• Review of the 5 stages
• Explore the 6th stage of death and grieving
• Recognize distinctions between depressive grief and clinical depression
• Discover how the emotion of relief has its place in the grieving process

MODULE #6: Death and the Afterlife

• The cultural meaning of angels in society as well as in death and dying
• How Christian interpretations of the afterlife can influence your clients
• How to handle clients who may be “haunted” by their loved ones
• What are “deathbed visions” and how they differ from hallucinations
• How the law validates the visions and declarations of the dying

MODULE #7: Grief and Forgiveness

• Explore alternatives to forgiveness
• Understand when forgiveness works and why it doesn’t
• Discover techniques your clients can use to truly find forgiveness

MODULE #8: Tools for the Clinician to Help Clients Cope

• How to handle ALL the holidays, not just Thanksgiving and Christmas
• What to do when anniversaries of diagnosis, death, first wedding anniversary after death, etc. arise
• How to handle other milestones, like birthdays
• How your clients can renew their intimate lives after loss
• Helping your clients find “closure”
• Discover the best—and worst—things to say to someone in grief
• How to avoid putting your clients on a timeline of grief

MODULE #9: Children in Grief

• Discover tools for preparing children for loss
• How to help kids participate in rituals of death and mourning
• Understand normal grieving behavior in children

MODULE #10: Pet Loss

• Learn why pet loss is just as significant as other losses
• Understand why clients may not reveal loss of a pet
• Discover new ways to help with feelings of exaggerated responsibility

MODULE #11: Self-Care for Clinician Working with Loss

• Discover how to take care of yourself when you’re surrounded by loss
• Understand why clinicians sometimes over-identify with clients
• How to determine when it’s helpful to disclose your own personal losses

MODULE #12: Complicated Grief

• Simplifying the model for greater understanding
• How complicated grief differs from uncomplicated grief
• How things like multiple losses, sudden death, Alzheimer’s disease, and other factors can complicate grief—and how to help your clients manage them

MODULE #13: The Grief of Suicide

• Understand how grief of suicide is different
• Discover techniques for releasing feelings of responsibility
• Tools for healing grief after a suicide

Not only will you discover these new methods and ideas, but in the course, David Kessler provides additional resources on these topics.

Plus, once you complete this course, you’ll have the opportunity to list yourself in a respected database of qualified grief counselors—completely FREE.

The most advanced training on grief and grieving can be yours today, at a significant discount.

The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice

After you order, just follow these next steps to transform the way you help your clients work through grief and find meaning in loss.

Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials. Click here for course objectives and outline.

Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You’ll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.

Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. When you enroll in this course, you’ll join a community of hundreds of practitioners focused on using these tools to help clients heal and rebuild after loss. Use this valuable connection to share insight and experiences, and to build your professional network.

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