LIVE WEBINAR | Living grief: Building client resilience in the face of life's futilities and ambiguous losses

LIVE WEBINAR
Living grief: Building client resilience in the face of life’s futilities and ambiguous losses

Overview

Last year we presented a well-received webinar on “Working with loss: An attachment-informed, internal family systems approach” which predominantly focused on grief relating to death and bereavement. In this second webinar, Ruth will explore the concept of ‘living grief‘ a term to describe non-death related grief, including ambiguous losses and inevitable human futilities. These may include invisible losses like infertility, miscarriages, failing health, being passed over for a promotion again, the loss of a hoped-for future, family estrangement or loneliness in a long-term committed relationship, to name a few.

With insights from Attachment Theory Ruth will present how we can help clients navigate living grief by staying adaptive, soft-hearted and healthily ‘finding our tears’ so that clients can get ‘better, not bitter’. Neufeld’s model of Frustration-Adaptation-Aggression will be used as a framework to work with living grief. Using Internal Family Systems approach, Ruth will present what Self-led grieving over life’s futilities, ambiguous losses, cumulative and complex living grief might look like.

Key learning points

• Neufeld’s model of attachment applied to invisible losses: living with Right Relationships and Soft Hearts.
• Right Relationships have three attachment dimensions: interpersonal (our relationship with others and the nature of our village of attachment) intrapsychic (our relationship with ourselves and our capacity for self-compassion) transcendent attachment (spirituality dimensions: relationship to Atua/God/Higher Power or Wairua/Spirit or Guides and Ancestors).
• Neufeld’s concept of living with soft hearts: becoming adaptive and embracing tears of futility.
• Neufeld’s model of transforming frustration into adaptation rather than attack/self-sabotage.
• Internal Family Systems concept of being Self-led in the face of life’s living losses and futilities. Helping client approaching living grief with the 8 qualities of self (compassion, clarity, courage, calm, creativity, confidence, connection and curiosity).

Register here: https://education.griefcentre.org.nz/course/livinggrief0426