Pre-Conference Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshop 1 (Virtual)
Grief and Bereavement 101
Date/Time:
20 Sep 2021, 9:30am – 5:30pm (Singapore Time)
21 Sep 2021, 9:30am – 5:30pm (Singapore Time)
Fee:
SGD342.40 per participant (inclusive of 7% Goods and Services Tax)
Target Audience:
Social Workers, Counsellors, Therapists, Educators, Doctors, Nurses, Grassroots and Community Workers, Faith workers, Funeral directors and professionals in grief, bereavement and death-related services.
Synopsis:
As a helping professional or volunteer, or in other relevant capacities, you may encounter people who have lost their significant others through death and thus experience the resulting grief. This two-day workshop will help you grasp an understanding of some common grief reactions and the various factors underlying the individual differences. It will also equip you with some fundamental guidelines and tools in how to journey with the bereaved as they sail through the ups and downs in grief. It will highlight some warning signs as well to help you identify any complications manifested by the bereaved in their post-loss adjustments that may require referrals to the relevant specialists.
Workshop Leader:
Dr Carolyn Ng
You can register for either the pre-conference workshop, main conference, or both.
Pre-Conference Workshop 2 (Virtual)
Masterclass
Date/Time:
20 Sep 2021, 9:30am – 12:30pm (Singapore Time)
21 Sep 2021, 9:30am – 12:30pm (Singapore Time)
Fee:
SGD267.50 per participant (inclusive of 7% Goods and Services Tax)
Target Audience:
Social Workers, Counsellors, Therapists, Educators, Doctors, Nurses, Grassroots and Community Workers, Faith workers, Funeral directors and professionals in grief, bereavement and death-related services.
Workshop Leader:
Prof Robert A. Neimeyer
TOPIC: Online But In Depth
Explore the surprising benefits of online therapy for supporting evocative experiential interventions in grief therapy and demonstrate their use in video recordings of specific creative techniques.
Objectives:
- List four guidelines for effective use of technology to enhance personalism in telehealth;
- Identify distinct advantages of online therapy with special relevance to the bereaved;
- Distinguish between states of therapeutic presence and absence, on the part of both client and therapist; and
- Describe procedures for Analogical Listening to the somatic felt sense of a client’s grief, in a way that promotes its articulation and evolution.
Highlights:
- Technical Tips for An Existential Encounter
- The Surprising Intimacy of Telehealth World
- Presence, Process and Procedure
- An Invitation to Depth: Analogical Listening
TOPIC: Holding Onto Grief
Drawing on Bruce Ecker’s coherence therapy, we will first consider several means by which therapists can help clients encounter the root causes of “immunity to change” and witness this empathic stance unfold in recordings of actual therapy sessions with two different clients.
Objectives:
- Summarise key concepts in Ecker’s Coherence Therapy and their relevance for grief therapy;
- Identify markers of the emergence of “pro-symptom positions” that invite radical inquiry;
- Use body-oriented imagery to explore sources of resistance to change in long-standing grief; and
- Utilise visualisation, symptom deprivation and overt statement to encounter the emotional truth of the symptom and promote its conscious integration.
Highlights:
- Ecker’s Insight: The Case for Coherence
- The Black Dagger of Grief: Visualisation of the Pro-Symptom Position
- The Heart of Grief: Discovery of the Emotional Truth of the Problem
- Life in the Fishbowl: Radical Inquiry into the Roots of Resistance
You can register for either the pre-conference workshop, main conference, or both.
