Professional Education Workshop for Nurses, Social Workers, & Clergy

Join us for two professional education workshops with Dr. William G. (Bill) Hoy, designed for nurses, social workers, clergy, and other professionals who support individuals and families experiencing serious illness, dying, grief, and loss.

Each workshop is offered twice, with a morning and evening session. Please select the session or sessions you would like to attend when registering. The morning and evening sessions on the same day cover the same material.

The experience of anticipatory grief affects each family member somewhat differently. In the process of each person getting his or her “issues” met, however, frequently the dying person actually gets overlooked.

In this workshop, we will talk about how to deal with family systems when these potentially polarizing bereavement issues are present. Everyone is dealing with their own grief, and it tends to be a very polarizing experience for a family.

Commemorative events like funerals, memorial services, and celebrations of life serve to “jump start” the grief process for mourning families and communities.

In both Dr. Hoy’s clinical practice and his academic research, he has found great benefit in utilizing what he has come to call the five “anchors” of funeral ceremonies that unite humans across millennia and cultures.

Participants will discover in this interactive workshop how memorial events draw people together in the midst of profound sorrow and help them begin the process of integrating the loss into the rest of their lives.

This seminar will be filled with practical, clinical tools caregivers can use in helping families and patients think about end-of-life rituals, both at the bedside and through funerals.

Info: “Mama, He’s Crazy:” Dealing with Polarized Families. Morning presentation for nurses, social workers, and clergy.

Info: “Mama, He’s Crazy:” Dealing with Polarized Families Evening presentation. This session covers the same material as the morning session.

Info: Value in Memorials: How to Facilitate Conversations in Supporting Grief. Morning presentation for nurses, social workers, and clergy.

Info: Value in Memorials: How to Facilitate Conversations in Supporting Grief
Evening presentation. This session covers the same material as the morning session.

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Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory - Heritage Room, 900 Old Hartford Road, Owensboro, United States

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