Managing Loss and Grief During the Holiday Season

Managing Loss and Grief During the Holiday Season: An Experiential Workshop with Dr. Terri Daniel

If you are mourning the death of a loved one or a loss of any kind (including divorce, job loss, pet loss or any major life transition), your grief can be more difficult and your sadness more pronounced during the Winter holidays.  We all respond to that sadness in different ways, and methods of coping can span a vast spectrum. Some choose to skip the holidays altogether, abandoning traditional family customs that are painful reminders of holidays past. Others continue -- and enhance -- those traditions by including departed loved ones in new rituals specifically designed to bring their presence into the festivities.

In this 2-hour workshop, we will explore a variety of experiential tools for working with loss, trauma, and grieving in community and multi-cultural, spiritual practices for deep inner work, including guided meditation, art therapy processes, and sacred ceremony for moving the “stuck” energy of grief out of our bodies and into a more spacious, more ventilated emotional landscape. Workshop activities will include:

. Art and music therapeutic exercises
. Multi-cultural loss and grief practices
. Story sharing
. Guided meditation
. Heart-healing ceremonies and rituals
. Grieving in community

FACILITATED BY

Dr. Terri Daniel is an end-of-life educator, inter-spiritual hospice chaplain, and grief counselor in Portland, Oregon. She is certified in death, dying, and bereavement by the Association of Death Education and Counseling, in family-focused grief therapy by The Portland Institute, and in trauma-informed critical care by the NYU School of Social Work. Terri conducts workshops throughout the U.S. and offers end-of-life consulting through her private practice at www.EndWellAdvisors.com. In addition, she is an adjunct professor in death studies and chaplaincy at Marian University, the Graduate Theological Union, and United Theological Seminary. Terri is also the founder of The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief,  and the Ask Doctor Death podcast.