Dates: Saturday. January 28; 9:30am - 5:00pm

Prices: $99 (no up-charge)

OneSpirit Elective:Included in the Elective Flat Fee : 1 Credit

Distance Learning:Available via Live Webinar or Audiobook Download (click to learn more)

Description:

When someone loses a loved one to violence their grief is different. We want toserve them but don’t know what to do or say. We have difficulty processing our ownresponse to the death and can be ineffective at a time when we are most needed. This workshop will help you serve people who have lost a loved one to a violent or sudden death: homicide, suicide, drug overdose, war, terrorism, vehicular manslaughter, natural disaster or any sudden event. You will learn about traumatic grief in the first five years and the involvement of the criminal justice system. We will explore your personal responses to these kinds of death and how to deal with your feelings. You will learn what survivors need and how to serve them―and what not to do. We will also explore how to create meaningful rituals and services for this kind of death so you can help people honor their loved ones.

Faculty:

Kathleen O'Hara, MA is a psychotherapist, international keynote speaker, workshop and retreat provider, policy and program developer and author of A Grief Like No Other, surviving the violent death of someone you love. She has worked extensively in the field of traumatic grief and victims’ rights advocacy in the US, Canada and the UK. She writes a daily blog for the bereaved called In the Name of the Fire at www.inthenameofthefire.wordpress.com Please visit her website www.kathleenohara.com for more information.


If you have questions about registering for this course, please contact One Spirit Learning Alliance by email to info@onespiritinterfaith.org or call 212-931-6840 x 0.