Unmasking the Pain of Loss:
Helping Clients Identify & Work with Grief
Led by Edy Nathan, MA, LCSWR, CST
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EDY NATHAN, MA, LCSWR, CST
Edy Nathan is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City. Edy’s work focuses on three of the four things people never want to talk about — grief, sex, and trauma (she leaves the discussions about money to others). Her work in grief, trauma, and sexuality offers insight into the way loss affects the soul and the brain. She uses these insights to breathe new meaning into the lives of those stagnated by loss or trauma.
Edy has master’s degrees in Psychology, Drama, and Social Work, and post-graduate work in Sex Therapy and Sex Education. She is a Certified Sex Therapist, certified Hypnotherapist, EMDR clinician, psychodrama therapist, Psychology Today blogger, motivational speaker, and workshop leader. Edy is the author of It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery through Trauma and Loss.
Unmasking the Pain of Loss: Helping Clients Identify and Work with Grief with Edy Nathan, MA, LCSWR, CST
Grief is one of the most difficult obstacles we face in our lives. It’s like a secret we carry within us: the projective experience of it is filled with fear and when it shows up it’s powerful, potent and life changing.
To work closely with grief requires an array of interventions within your collective tool box. From Dr. Carl Jung to Dr. Murray Bowen, you’ll join me on a journey that takes this serious and difficult issue, demystify it by inviting its power into your sessions. Your clients will be able to go deeper into their psyche’s pain, face their losses with less avoidance and greater emotional balance because you have let their grief know that you are not afraid of its power. You are ready to engage in the fight.
Grief. It is the loss of something that cannot be retrieved. With it comes an intense yearning to get back that which was lost. The language people use with grief is colored by a desire to get over the grief - and one does not get over grief, they live with it, they hold it, they honor it and they dance with it. This may be the greater truth of what really happens when grief has been met. The grief is never over, how it is carried within the soul is what changes.
Strategies you’ll learn include the innermost cave, breathing techniques, identifying the Big G and the Little G, and separating the grief reaction from a trauma reaction and mutable, cardinal and fixed personality types. They offer you a chance to think outside of your own comfort zone, understand how grief relates to you personally and how to help clients move from a grief that is overwhelming and often emotionally debilitating to what you may currently be doing when processing it with a client.
What if in practice the goal is not to help clients “get over” grief: rather to learn to integrate it into their lives so they can learn to live with it as an ally, rather than an obstacle?
The course covers the manifestations of grief due to bereavement and is not limited to the loss of a loved one, but also the grief associated with both small and large changes throughout the lifecycle.
Unmasking the Pain of Loss
with Edy Nathan, MA, LCSWR, CST
Agenda
Module 1 - Pre-recorded - Redefining Grief: Curiosity and Rapport - 1 Hour - 1 CE
- New Perspective on Grief: The Dance of Defined and Redefined 10
- Conversational Grief: Timeline, Story TIme 15
Show Timeline, how to use it, Emotion and experiential - Grief, Big G’s Little G’s - Grief and Trauma. How are they linked, how to separate them. 10
three types of trauma- /Grief Defined Disenfranchised - Emotional Armour - - The Brain and Grief: The Crisis. Tap into it. Identify an Unknown Ally. 15
Amygdala - Fight, flight, freeze, fawn What is the unknown ally - The Therapist as the Agent for Change in the Clients Brain 5
Client says I hear you - it then becomes theirs - Certain repetitions - Relaxes the brain - Tools to Use in Session: Safety Helps You Get Deeper. Breathing is Underrated. 15
The Three Sleep Method Sleep breath- explained and shared. Breathing and tapping.
Module 2 - Pre-Recorded - One New Lens in Grief Support: The Hero’s Journey - 1 hour - 1 CE
As A Roadmap to the Emotional Journey Grief Presents in the Life of A Client. Roadmap for the clinician as the guide.
- What is the Hero’s Journey and what does it have to do with Grief? 10 min
- Defining grief. For yourself and for your client. 5 min
- The call to adventure. Leaving the Ordinary World and Going into The New Ordinary. 10
- Refusal of the call: Emotional Armor phase 10
- Meet the mentors on the grief journey. Give the client support. 5
- Crossing the threshold. You are aligned with the client. 5
- Being in the innermost cave with the client and their grief: Best practices. Timeline Alive 15
- Going home. The New Ordinary. The cycle repeats itself. 15
Module 3 - Pre-recorded - Who you are and, how you do what you love, Redefining and Refining Grief With the Client: Personality Types Inform Healing - 1.5 hours - 1.5 CEs
- Me, Myself and I 10
- It matters: Extrovert, Introvert and Ambivert 15
- Mutable, Cardinal, Fixed 5
- Mutable 5
- Cardinal 5
- Fixed 5
- Underdistanced, Overdistanced and Calibrated 5
- Underdistanced 5
- Overdistanced 5
- Calibrated 5
- Boulder in the way: What will your client do? What would you do? 5
- Assessment of the client behind the scenes. 5
Module 4 - Pre-Recorded - Facing the Non-Linear Aspects of Grief: Creative Tools For Use with Clients 1 Hour - 1 CE
- No Matter What Your Clinical Background You Can Use Tools 15
Discussion of Non-linear aspects of grief, what makes it non-linear and why it needs creative means to work with it. Words are not enough. - Out of the Box Thinking and Honoring: Four Tools To Help Clients through the tough times. 10
- Masking is For Protection. How to Get to the Core Masks Presented by the Client. 10
No you don’t need to make a mask, just a circle on a page. Then words, and thoughts. - The Script: For You and for The Client 15
David Shnarch, the interactive script between client and the person they lost, client and grief, - Storytelling, Journaling, The Letter and the Soul’s Journey Into the Land Of Grief 15
Using storytelling to change emotionally negative experiences as a reframe. The use of imagination within healing. - Role Play and Psychodrama for Core Interactions: 10
Doubling, Mirroring and the empty chair are three aspects. Definition of psychodrama - why it is used with grief and loss and trauma - What’s This All About: Cognitive Interrupters and Brain Game Changers. Break Resistance 5
Module 5 - Pre-recorded - The Grief Work: Process and Progress - 1 hour - 1 CE
- Moving Forward with Clients and their Grief: 10
Fusion to the grief and differentiation with the grief. The fusion keeps them stuck. - Release is not about Forgetting 5
Avoidance Factors. - Forgiveness in Grief: Enrights Four Phases of Forgiving and accessing F.O.R.G.I.V.E. 15
Uncovering, Decision, Work and Deepening. - Teach the Client to Let Go with Insight 5
Bowen - tap into differentiation and fusion, briefly - Assessing when Anxiety is Unexpressed Anger 10
- Support the Support System: The Two Circle Exercise Explained and Used 10
- The Eleven Phases of Grief: Briefly the Steps of the Personal Dance With Grief 10
- Better Endings Deserved - Here’s How. 5
Unmasking the Pain of Loss
Learning Objectives
Module One: Redefining Grief: Curiosity and Rapport
Distance Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to name three functions of the amygdala as they relate to the grief response.
2. When integrating and applying the principles of breathing techniques into their practices, participants will be able to teach clients two types of breath work.
3. Participants will be able to identify three transformative interventions to use when any form of grief is present.
4. When disenfranchised grief is present, the participant will be able to distinguish that type of grief from the grief of the loss of a loved one.
5. Participants will be able to evaluate the differences and the similarities between the grief response and a trauma response.
6. When a person is grieving they may have had major losses and minor losses in their lives, the participant will be able to identify these experiences as the Big G’s and the Little G’s (G stands for Grief Experience) using the timeline exercise and in conversation.
Module Two - The Hero’s Journey and Grief:
Distance Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to name and describe the three main stages of the S/Hero’s Journey
2. Participants will be able to name the five grief responses in the Emotional Armor phase.
3. When working with a client's grief, the participant will be able to integrate the application of the Hero’s Journey into the therapy session.
4. Expansion on where and how the grief reaction reveals itself will enable the participant to transform their perspective on grief and loss.
5. Participants will be able to apply the hero’s journey perspective to use with clients as a roadmap: The call to adventure, leaving the ordinary, meeting the mentors, crossing the threshold, the innermost cave and the new ordinary.
Module Three - Redefining and Refining The Temperament of Grief: Personality Types Inform Best Interventions
Distance Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify two distinct personality assessments that enable them to understand best therapeutic interventions for each client personality.
2. Participants will be able to assess introvert, extrovert or ambivert in their clients to enable best interventions and tools for integrating grief into their lives.
3. Participants will be able to teach the client about over-distance, under-distance and calibrated states to enable the client to accurately label where they are in their grief responses.
Module Four: Facing the Non-Linear Aspects of Grief: Creative Tools that work to combat the trickster in grief.
Distance Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to describe and integrate the three basic tools of role play. The description includes doubling, mirroring, and role reversal.
2. Participants will be able to summarize and utilize negative cognitions and positive cognitive interrupters to understand how the interrupters are aspects of neuroplasticity.
3. Participants will be able to demonstrate their knowledge in the use of mask work within sessions when grief is the primary issue and use it to assess two sides of a conflict or dilemma.
4. Participants will be able to identify and define three aspects of psychodrama: the protagonist, scene setting and self-presentation.
5. Participants will be able to accurately define what the purpose of role play is specific to working with people who are stuck in the grief cycle.
6. Participants will understand how the trickster, an archetypal character within the grief paradigm, is one cause of pop-up memories.
7. Participants will be able to discuss the non-linear aspects of grief.
Module Five: The Grief Work: Process and Progress
Distance Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to list the four quadrants involved in a healing assessment. The psyche, emotion, spiritual and physical.
2. Participants will be able to identify Enright’s four phases of forgiving.
3. Participants will be able to design the two-circle diagram and use it as a clinical assessment when people as part of an overview of the effects of loss.
4. Participants will be able to distinguish the differences between the eleven phases of grief and the five stages of grief.
5. Participants will be able to classify Bowen’s family system methodology and its breakdown of fusion and his differentiation.
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