Village Hotel Katong
About Your Speakers
Course speakers: Mr. Ian Poulier, Mr. Andrew Ponniah and Mr. Charlie New with role play expert, Mr. Joseph John.
Course Brief
Grief Therapy has become key in today’s world. With its relentless pace and rate of change, the world says, without emotion, “Hurry up, you gotta catch up, otherwise you’ll be left behind”. So we push ourselves along life’s highways always going faster. But we don’t know where we are going. And then we experience a slow down - a loss of someone close, a mother, an aunt or a brother or friend. It could also be the end of a relationship, or the parting of ways that foretells we have ended a phase in life and need to move on. And COVID-19 too. They all spell GRIEF - the absence of someone we love, the loss of job and predictability and then we bury it in ourselves. Handling grief is critical. We need to know how to handle it ourselves before we can help others as counsellors or therapists. What are some useful theories? How do we approach grief given that we will all experience it? What is there to learn? Am I open to change? Who should I turn to? Will I allow myself to feel the pain, or do I just numb it?
DAY 1
• Theories of Grief Counselling
• Tree of Grief
• Is the Goal to Always Get Over Grief?
• Stages of Grief
• How to Stabilise Someone Going
Through Grief (Skill Sets)
• Practical Examples Discussed
DAY 2
• Recap Day 1
• Traditional (Grief to Be Overcome), Narrative (Grief to Be Lived Through), Spiritual (Grief Is a Gift)
and Contemporary Approaches (Syncretic)
• Cultural Expressions of Grief
• Modern Expressions of Grief
• Different Settings (Family, Hospitals, etc.)
• Question and Answer Time