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With Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Greetings,
What could you do with a new approach to processing grief?
When I originally was thinking of this course, I wanted to focus on the grief we, as a collective and as individuals, were experiencing as a result of the COVID pandemic. From the loss of person-to-person contact to the loss of loved ones, we have felt alone and cut off from our communities.
Now, the war in Ukraine compounds the world’s pandemic grief. Witnessing the losses caused by the invasion of Ukraine has been heartbreaking even from a distance of thousands of miles away.
As a species, we are dealing with so much grief, and more types of grief than ever before: social injustice, the environmental crisis, mass shootings, unrest with the Supreme Court, job loss, housing instability, isolation during the pandemic, and hostility within our communities.
The burden of our losses is heavy.
Western culture’s tendency is to bypass or avoid grief, or to become preoccupied with it and have it be impossible to let go of. Neither of these approaches helps us to be in relationship with grief.
My approach to working with grief is to develop a relationship with grief. I will show you the difference between befriending grief versus mourning.
In Living with the Legacy of Loss, we will take a mindfulness-based somatic approach to grief and loss which:
- Takes advantage of the body’s resources to achieve optimal levels of sadness — not too much or too little
- Increases resilience in the face of loss and increases our ability to tolerate grief
- Diminishes the effects of isolation and loneliness
- Understands grief as a whole-body experience
- Helps us ride the roller coaster of emotions from numb to excruciating and emerge on the other side
Using a somatic approach, you will learn how to change the relationship with grief from one of intense intrusive feelings, to being able to relate to them as a body and emotional experience without words. You and your clients can learn to mindfully follow the waves of emotion as physical sensations needing only completion and letting go.
Here are the Recorded session topics:
Session I: The Effects of Grief and Loss
Session II: Complicated versus Non-complicated Bereavement
Session III: Riding the Waves
Session IV: Befriending Grief
We are living in a time of significant loss. We need no more “proof” that grief is a central issue in our lives, and that there is a greater need for how to process it.
Please join me in Living with the Legacy of Loss to discover a new approach to the centuries-old challenge of grief.
Warmly,
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Dr. Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Whether you are a therapist or not, you are likely overwhelmed by new emotions of grief brought upon us by the pandemic and the war in the Ukraine. You may be using old-fashioned models of therapy that aren’t effective, and may even increase one’s sense of loss. No one in the therapy world has been writing about the new forms of grief, and therapists may feel that their understanding of compound or complicated grief is limited.
On the other hand, grief is “old”; it’s been around since the beginning of humanity and you may not have thought there were (or needs to be) new ways to approach it. But the time has come to help people be prepared to meet new kinds of grief in new ways.
In Living with the Legacy of Loss you will develop:
A new relationship with grief
A new approach to processing grief
New ways to talk about the 5 stages of grief
How to recognize and process grief
How to manage the grief “roller coaster”
Thank you so very much for all you are doing during this tough time in our nation, and in our world. I have learned many helpful tools and am already using them with my clients who are telling me that they are experiencing relief.
— Linda
1. Four Recorded 2-hour SESSIONS with Dr. Janina Fisher
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HERE’S WHAT YOU WILL LEARN INSIDE:
Living with the Legacy of Loss
Recorded Webinar I
The Effects of Grief and Loss
In this webinar, we will look at the acute and long-term effects of loss identified by research in an effort to understand how our approaches to grief work can address both the physiological and psychological responses to loss. We’ll cover:
Immediate consequences of bereavement
How traditions of mourning and remembrance support resolution
Understanding the many effects of grief: guilt, numbing, relief, cognitive impairment, sadness, detachment
The role of self-compassion
The role of social support and fellow mourners
Recorded Webinar II
Complicated versus Non-complicated Bereavement
In our second webinar, we will address the causes of complicated bereavement versus the factors that lead to adaptation and resilience in the context of loss. We’ll discuss how the therapist can support clients in moving through grief in these ways:
Avoidance versus rumination
Dysregulation and its consequences
Boundaries versus self-disclosure during bereavement
Helping clients learn how to grieve
Balancing pain and comfort
Recorded Webinar III
Riding the Waves
In Webinar 3, we’ll learn about various ways clients can learn to notice, observe, and track the emotions of grief. Clients are often afraid of being hit by a wave of grief, and avoid people and situations that might evoke “the wave.” The fear of grief leads to complicated bereavement, as does the over-preoccupation with grief. By adopting a mindfulness approach, grief becomes less frightening and overwhelming, making it easier to resolve. This webinar includes:
How the emotional experience of grief differs from other emotions
Developing a mindful relationship to the grief
Learning to observe rather than be overwhelmed by it
Noticing grief as waves of emotion: how emotion gets stuck
Tracking the physical sensations in waves of grief
“Riding the waves” of grief
Recorded Webinar IV
Befriending Grief
In this final webinar, we will work with the instinctual tendencies to stay connected to those we have lost, no matter at what cost. Acceptance and letting go are often the most challenging aspects of bereavement. Guilt and anger impede our accepting that the loss is real and it is final. We cannot ‘fight the gods’ to undo what happened. But we can learn to accept and befriend the grief. We can develop a friendly relationship to our memories of lost loved ones and also to the feelings about them that arise in the here-and-now, no matter how long it’s been. We can even let our feelings about them change and grow over the years.
Mindful noticing rather than verbal description of emotional experience
Breathing through each wave of grief
Learning how to let go of pain
Acceptance
Moving on without guilt or shame
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At the Intersection of Psychotherapy, spirituality, and social change
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Dr. Fisher is an exceptional presenter! I deeply appreciate her sharing years of experience and expertise. This course comprehensively integrated the mind and body aspects of grief recovery, blending mindfulness as well as somatic approaches.
― Tonya Madsen
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Meet Your Presenter
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is the Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and an international expert on the treatment of trauma and dissociation. She is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021). Best known for her work on integrating newer neurobiologically-informed interventions into traditional psychotherapy approaches, she is the co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015).
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1) Four Recorded Teaching Sessions with Dr. Janina Fisher
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4) Certificate of Completion
ENROLL NOW
SINGLE PAYMENT OF
$297
Join Janina Fisher for
Living with the Legacy of Loss
If you are a BIPOC helping professional,
please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here.
We are glad to have you with us!