Beyond Grief - Grief Recovery Program

The page covers the following topics:

• Overview
• Weekly Topics
• Course Locations & Dates
• Registration and Investment
• Course Facilitator Peter Day

Overview

"the ability to love requires the necessity to mourn."
                                                                    - Dr. Alan Wolfelt

Beyond grief is a ten-session workshop on coping with the adjustment and feelings associated with the loss of a loved one through death. It's a compassionate and sensitive look at the phases of grieving and mourning that we all face. As a practical and supportive program on the knowledge and skills that are essential on our grief journey, it will guide people to a realistic understanding of their loss and beyond. The program will be a safe place where people can feel comfortable with their emotions in a confidential environment.

The course is open to anyone and is helpful for someone trying to relate to a grieving family member or friend. The material is based on the international best seller, "Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones" by Dr. Alan Wolfelt published 2003.

The course fee of $100 covers twenty hours of creative instruction & class interaction over ten weeks. The course text, "Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones" and the "Understanding Your Grief Journal" is available from the facilitator or at the opening session of the program. The cost for the texts is $35.

Weekly Topics

• Misconceptions of Grief
• The Uniqueness of Grief
• Feelings of Loss
• Spiritual Resources
• Essential Reconciliation Needs
• Nurturing Yourself
• Complicated Grief
• Reconciliation Not Resolution

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Course Locations & Dates

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Registration and Investment

You can register by phone, fax, e-mail or mail.
Please forward a deposit of $30

Make cheque payable to: Getting On With Life
and mail to: 22-1480 Garnet Rd., Victoria, BC V8P 5K9
Ph/Fax: 472-1375
E-mail: info@growwithlife.com

Investment - $100

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Course Facilitator Peter Day BA, M.Div. (Clinical Counselling)

Peter Day is a graduate of the Bereavement Support Group Facilitator training seminar conducted by Dr. Alan Wolfelt at the Centre for Loss and Life Transition in Fort Collins, CO. He has been involved in ministry for the past twenty-eight years in western Canada. As a former military chaplain he has counselled many individuals and families in the area of grief and loss.

While serving as one of the base chaplains at CFB Esquimalt, he initiated a 10-week program in grief recovery for military members and their families.

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