1 CEU Awarded

Overview:

Who do you love? How did you come to love them? What happens when a beloved person dies? Or, when our home, or a way of life that we have lived is lost or torn away? Who might we become when what we were before is stripped away? And how might we, or anyone human, react? What might our feelings, withholding of feelings, physical changes, thoughts, customs and beliefs, rituals or ceremonies and spiritual convictions teach us? And how do we, as counselors, as persons who strive to live our lives with insight and compassion, with realistic awareness of pain and human mortality, how do we companion others on their unique, rocky, stormy, lonely road of grief and loss? What must we learn so that we are sensitive to the imperfect brokenness that is always the result of living and loving?

Join me for an hour as we explore these questions knowing that we shall never fully answer them. We can, however, benefit from listening well to those who are different from us, from considering contemporary research on grief and its physiological impact, from reading personal memoirs and books written for children that continue to teach us as adults, and from the wisdom of shared experience as we journey this road as care providers. 


 

Presented by: Linda Slabon, M. Div., LCSW