Evidence-based grief training
Dignity and respect while recovering from grief and traumaWhile professionals such as solicitors, bankers, and accountants regularly encounter grief and loss with their clients, very little – if any – professional training covers appropriate and respectful grief support. End of life workers, including death doulas, are often working with various aspects of grief but without appropriate training and understanding of language and protocols.
I’m here to help.
In person workshops
In-depth training in specialised end of life skills and professional practice, tailored to your experience and interest.
For groups of 6-12 adults, event options begin at a half day through to full days of training.
Mentoring
Expert 1 to 1 intensive support offered to:
- End of life consultants
- Death doulas
- Creatives
- End of life practitioners
- End of life students
Practitioner and student/hardship rates available.
Supervision
Specialist service for death doulas and those who work with the dying and the dead.
Debriefing and professional support, confidential and thorough.
What Is Different About My Grief Training for Professionals?
What is the advantage of a workshop with you?
As both a grief specialist and a university-trained lecturer I offer solid information transfer along with real-world approaches to understanding grief, trauma, loss, and how to appropriately support the grieving in both professional and personal spaces. The language of grief, cultural considerations, and social norms that actually work against healthy grieving all need to be understood, placed in context and thoroughly explained so that you the working professional can support your clients appropriately and well.
What is your ethos?
I have been thinking critically and rationally about grief, loss, trauma, dying, death and the after-death spaces for many years. Our cultural, social, historical and personal contexts all play a part in better understanding why we value what we do in life – and also why our griefs need to be considered in a careful and nuanced way.
We cannot make assumptions about any aspect of a person’s life, especially when they are vulnerable and in need of judgement-free support while vulnerable in any stage of active grief. The specialist, tailored training I offer is designed to foster compassion, professional best practice, and inclusive, respectful interactions with clients, friends and families, communities and organisations alike.
Mentoring
I offer peer support, professional guidance, counselling, and mentoring for other grief therapists, end of life consultants and doulas, art therapists and end of life workers for humans and pets. You can book a session on an ad hoc or ongoing basis, depending on your own needs.
I am available for face-to-face sessions if you live near me and I work online via video and phone calls. I am located on the eastern seaboard of Australia in the AEST Hobart time zone of GMT +10 hours in standard time.
Please note: Hobart time varies in summer periods for daylight saving time. Please ensure you have your calendar adjusted to reflect this change when booking your appointment if you are outside this time zone.
Supervision
Supervision is an essential part of professional best practice, allowing for debriefing, empathetic support from a knowledgeable professional, and to help avoid burnout. For those who work with the grieving, the traumatised, the dying and their networks, those who have experienced an unexpected death, and with after-death care, ritual and funerals, supervision can be invaluable.
Supervision differs from mentoring in that this service is aimed at professional practitioners rather than students or those still fairly new to the field. Supervision is different to therapy in that practitioners are not ‘clients’ per se and we meet as equals in the overall field. I have a wealth of practitioner and therapy experience, and am able to hold the supervision space for a practitioner while appropriately supporting professional insight, reflective practices, and self-awareness. I have offered this service for some years and am a compassionate and empathetic supervisor.
I am available for face-to-face sessions as well as online.
Masterclasses and workshops for professionals and grief
Designed for anyone who wants in-depth knowledge and the latest best practice information for appropriately and professionally supporting those in grief, including traumatic grief.
Price varies depending on length of training day/workshop focus
$300-600
More Details
Each Masterclass is a stand-alone, focused training opportunity that you can return to again and again once purchased. Prices vary as Masterclass length varies between 3-6 hours, and new Masterclasses are being added regularly. Expand and enrich your service-set for your clients with international expert contributors and bonus extras.
Note: A few Masterclasses require prior learning, see Masterclass list for details.