The task of therapy in bereavement & grief: A workshop
Saturday, 31 August, 2024
5:30 - 8:30pm IST
Online only
INR3000+18%GST (INR3540) for persons based in India
USD80 for persons based outside of India - please reach out to us for a secure payment link
(financial accommodation is available only to those from financially or institutionally disadvantaged backgrounds. Please write to us for this)
About this workshop
How do we help our patients make sense of something as painful as the death of a loved one?
Grief can be terribly heavy to bear, isolating, frustrating, maddening, even. When people reach out to us in their grief, it falls on us to face all of this with them. It falls on us to hold the fact that there is no solving for grief. It can, in turn, leave us with a similar sense of existential dread. We might even be carrying pain & fear of our own that can be essential in our work if we process it.
Through this workshop, we offer a comprehensive theoretical understanding of grief as well as an in-depth look at what grief can look like in the room and the tasks of mourning. We will also work through the task of therapy in meeting this grief - how to identify it, how to be with it, and how to take care of ourselves as we take on this difficult journey with our patients.
Please note: Grief can be a result of many losses. This workshop particular addresses grief and bereavement as a result of the death of a loved one.
Who should attend
This workshop is best suited for mental health professionals who would like to or presently see clients who are bearing grief in bereavement.
We also encourage psychiatrists to join in, as we will address the ideas of grief and pathology.
The trainers
Dr Meetali Devgun & Dr Nivida Chandra will both be taking this workshop. We have been working with grief and bereavement for several years, and carry loss ourselves. We approach therapy for grief as the space where people can come to experience what it means to live without their loved ones, and not feel alone in the face of the existential dread that death brings to all of us.
We would like to welcome you into this workshop which we hope will equip you better support those who come to grieve with you.
(If you’d like, you can read more about both us here.)
