ACT for Grief and Loss

In this journey through grief and loss, you’ll discover how to use ACT to:

• Help in each stage of normative grieving

• Work flexibly with all forms of grieving difficulty: complicated grief, ambiguous grief, disenfranchised grief, etc.

• Create hope and optimism in the face of devastating loss

• Help clients cope with intense emotional pain, through grounding, acceptance and self-compassion

• Sensitively to facilitate grieving, without turning it into a clinical issue

• Understand complicated grief primarily in terms of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance

• Develop self-compassion step-by-step in just about anyone

• Overcome guilt and shame, and practice self-forgiveness

• Develop and use healing imagery

• Cope with the aftermath of suicide

• Create grief rituals

• Handle suicidality in complicated grief

• Apply mindfulness and defusion as antidotes to worrying, rumination, hopelessness and catastrophising

• Rebuild life after loss, and experience growth, using values and self-compassion

• Help people move forward after loss, without conflict or invalidation

• Revitalize and appreciate life after loss

Each week, Russ will take you step-by-step through the core principles of ACT, supported by instructional videos, engaging animations, videos of therapy sessions, written materials, audio recordings, client handouts and worksheets, and interactive quizzes to test your learnings as you go.

To complete your interactive experience, the course also includes a fully supported forum where you can ask questions daily, and share your experiences with Russ and your peers from around the world.

This course is an eight-hour course, delivered over four weeks, with two hours of new material released each week. There is also an extra two hours of bonus material including demonstrations of therapy sessions.

Who this course is for

ACT for Grief and Loss is open to any professional who works with physical or psychological health. This includes therapists, coaches, counselors, physicians, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, physios, dietitians, occupational therapists, youth workers, BCBAs, speech therapists, and any other type of health professional - as well as students and researchers in these fields.

This course assumes at least a beginners-level knowledge of ACT. Before enrolling, we recommend you do at least one of the following:

• Attend an introductory level 2-day ACT workshop (with any trainer).

• Complete the online ACT for Beginners course.

• Thoroughly work through a beginners-level ACT textbook from start to end, such as ACT Made Simple, 2nd edition or Learning ACT.

Enrollments

We're happy to help if you can't attend the current intake. Once your purchase is complete, contact our customer service team and we can enrol you in a future intake.

Upcoming intake dates:

• August 18

• October 13

• December 8

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