Name: It's Hard to Say Goodbye An experiential, reflexive workshop for multi-disciplinary practitioners
Start: 2024-11-27T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-27T13:45:00+01:00
Location: Pembroke, Malta

It's Hard to Say Goodbye An experiential, reflexive workshop for multi-disciplinary practitioners

An experiential, reflexive workshop for multi-disciplinary practitioners who support people who are experiencing loss and grief.

“Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours”.
(Rumi).
Date: Wednesday 27th November 2024
With Dr Elaine Grech (Ph.D.)
Warranted Gestalt and Systemic Psychotherapist, Accredited Supervisor
and Warranted Teacher
Time: 8.30 am to 1.45 pm (5 CPD hours)
Location: Pembroke Clinic (Limited Number)
Price: 100 € (includes tea breaks)
Early Bird: 90€ (if you pay by the 18thOctober 2024)
Website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com
This workshop is aimed for: Multi-disciplinary practitioners who work in various contexts sup-porting children and adults who are experiencing loss and grief. These contexts can include therapeutic, clinical, care, medical, holistic well-being, educational, and other settings.
How do we support:
· Children and adults who have experienced a sudden traumatic death of a loved one?
· Parents who have gone through the painful loss of a miscarriage or lost a child?
· People who know their life on this earth is soon ending, and their significant others?
· How do we, as practitioners, come to terms with the death of our loved ones?
· How do our losses affect our practices when working with family members facing a similar experience?
· How do we support grieving loved ones to find peace and release their loved ones to rest in peace?
It's hard to say goodbye to someone to whom we are attached. Loss of loved ones is a vulnera-ble process, even when the passing is of a loved one who has lived a long, fulfilling life. The process becomes more painful and complex when the loss occurs unexpectedly and untimely, such as when the children leave before the parents or when we lose a loved one through a ter-minal illness in the prime of their lives, or when a significant other disappears suddenly out of our lives.
Traumatic losses can include fatal tragedies or losses of loved ones who decided to move to the other side and took their own lives or whose life was taken. Some losses leave us wondering what happened, and we might need to come to terms with not ever knowing "factually" what happened. The loved ones left behind might need support to process their unresolved grief.
During these past 25 years, I have sat with many people who have experienced losses of loved ones or were preparing to die. Their shock, disbelief, bargaining, anger, pain, regrets, sadness, relief, struggles and, above all, love, resilience and acceptance have supported me in embark-ing on this workshop. As reflexive practitioners, we become aware that our own grief experi-ences can be triggered when working with grief. Working therapeutically through our grief can equip us with the sense of integrity and security we need to support people who are going through a similar experience.
The main therapeutic aim of this workshop is to create a containing space where we can equip ourselves with the necessary attuned disposition when working through the vulnerable themes of loss and grief. Besides working with individuals, from a systemic perspective, we will also be exploring the importance of working with significant others and supporting them to grief as a family, a group, a team or a community. We will have the opportunity to explore some multi-sensorial supportive therapeutic rituals to facilitate this vulnerable process in different contexts and with people with different beliefs. The conceptual framework of attachment will help us make sense of how to attune to the different needs of grieving loved ones.
Booking and Payment Procedure:
1. Booking through the website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com/upcoming-events
and click Register Now on the event of your choice. If the website allows you to book, it means there are availabilities. If the workshop is full, there will be a notification which offers the op-tion of a waiting list.
2. How to secure your payment:
• Payment must occur within 24 hours; otherwise, your registration will not be secured.
• Write your name and the workshop’s title when processing the payment so that payment can be identified.
• Please email payment confirmation to [email protected] so I can confirm your booking: Name and Surname, Workshop Title and Date, Method of Payment chosen, and email address for correspondence regarding the workshop.
3. Participants will receive a receipt of payment via the email provided within the following week and, after completing the workshop. Within a week, a certificate of attendance with the actual number of CPD hours completed. The certificate will reflect the completed hours, so please ensure you are present for the whole workshop.
4. Please note that it is on a first-come, first-served basis, and your booking can only be con-firmed after payment and registration.
5. The payment is non-refundable unless due to the rare eventuality of the workshop being can-celled by the facilitator. The payment for the workshop IS NOT transferable to someone else. If the person who has booked and paid cannot attend, they cannot transfer their booking to some-one else.
6. Bookings need to be made individually; prospective workshop participants are still requested to book and pay individually if an organisation wants to sponsor employees' attendance. They will be given a receipt of payment in their name, and they can choose to present it to the or-ganisation.
7. You will receive an email with the location and some ideas for training preparation about a week before the workshop.
Payment Options:
Full Fee 100€
Early bird fee: 90€ if you pay by the 18th October 2024
Payment Options:
Payment on Revolut
or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307
Paypal [email protected] (If using PayPal, please add 5 euros to the amount to cov-er the PayPal Fee).
Online Bank Transfer
SWIFT Code: VALLMTMT IBAN: MT60VALL22013000000040013125068
I wish you well, and thank you for your service to the community!
Looking forward to our shared space.
Many blessings
Dr Elaine Grech
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Dr Elaine Grech
B.Psy.(Hons.); Dip.Gest.Psych.(G.P.T.I.M.);
MSc.Lond.Systemic Couple & Family Therapy;
PhD (Melit.) Family Studies;
Gestalt Psychotherapist; Systemic Couple and Family Therapist;
Warranted Psychotherapist: PPBM 20; Warranted Teacher: 9513.
Mobile: (00356) 99447307
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com
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