Good Grief - The Heart of Healing

A Conference for Both Heart and Mind 

This conference offers both inspiration and practical information for being compassionately present to those coping with life-threatening illness, death, and bereavement.

Whether your background is in hospice care, nursing, medicine, psychology, chaplaincy, or other, this conference will help you help others heal from grief and loss.

Through presentations and workshop sessions, the conference highlights what we have learned about grief and healing from loss, and future directions for improved end-of-life services. If you are interested in the connection between healing and spirituality, come join us for a remarkable day of learning, networking, inspiration, and strategies for caregivers seeking to enhance their work in clinical settings. For complete details go to: http://kara-grief.org/conference/

At the conference participants will:

• Learn how to identify the emotional needs of bereaved people.
• Learn how the body/mind deals with pain and suffering, especially related to loss.
• Learn how to integrate emotional and spiritual approaches to loss with methods from clinical psychology.
• Gain an understanding of the applications for music and humor in healing from grief and how to use that understanding to assist grieving clients.

Our vision is to give you a day of renewal, inspiration, new learning and practical skills.

• Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is a renowned bridge between science and spirituality, whose gracious presence in itself is an authentic transmission of healing. She will give practical tips on how to be present to your own deepest wisdom and will leave you with an important skill set, as well as a warm heart.
  
  
• Karen Drucker, whose music has the power to evoke laughter, tears, and the kind “knowing” that parts the clouds of fear, explores healing through her music and humor.
  
  
• A selection of four concurrent workshops that will expand on the nature of healing, wholeness and consciousness itself, integrating several approaches to dealing with profound change and loss including methods from clinical psychology and medicine.