March 22, 2016 at Rochester Museum & Science Center in Rochester.
Topic: Exploring the Need to Grieve and Mourn: Helping Yourself, Your Family, and Your Friends
Sponsor: Anthony Funeral & Cremation Chapels, Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home, Lifetime Care Home Health Care & Hospice, Rochester Regional Health, & Walker Brothers Funeral Home.
RSVP: Call Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home (585)720-6000
Purpose: We look forward to having you join us for this evening of hope and healing. Come lean important principles of helping yourself, your family, and your friends. This practical, heart-based program will assist you as you mourn the death of someone in your life and how to be of support to family members and friends.
Objective: The capacity to love requires the need to mourn when someone you love dies. Don’t miss this opportunity to spend an evening with one of North America’s leading grief counselors and authors, Dr. Alan Wolfelt. He can and will help you feel support in your grief!
Agend –
Among the content areas to be explored in this program
are the following:
• Understanding the Concepts of “Special Needs” and “Convalescence”
• Exploring the Need to Authentically Mourn
• Recognizing the Uniqueness of Your Personal Grief
• Identifying Six Needs of Mourning
• Determining Principles for Supporting Family and Friends in Grief
• Re-Awakening Your “Divine Spark”
About the Presenter: Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt is a noted author, educator, and grief counselor. Recipient of the Association for Death Education and Counseling’s Death Educator Award, he serves as the Director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition (www.centerforloss.com), in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is also a faculty member of the University of Colorado Medical School’s Department of Family Medicine. In addition to presenting dozens of keynotes and workshops across North America each year, Dr. Wolfelt facilitates 4-day training seminars for bereavement caregivers in Fort Collins. Dr. Wolfelt is a popular media resource who regularly provides his expertise to many top-tier television shows, newspapers, and magazines..
He is the author of over thirty books on grief and loss. Among his titles are Loving From the Outside in, Mourning From the Inside Out; Understanding Your Grief; The Journey Through Grief; Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers; Healing a Spouse’s Grieving Heart; Companioning the Grieving Child; Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart; and Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies.
Alan and his wife Sue, a family physician, are parents to three children: Megan, Christopher and Jaimie. They live in the foothills of the beautiful Rocky Mountains next door to the Center for Loss and Life Transition. Dr. Wolfelt facilitates intensive 4-day learning experiences about grief and loss, throughout the year, in Fort Collins, Colorado (www.centerforloss.com.)
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