Being with Grief and Death
Dying and grieving are essential and unavoidable aspects of our humanness. With our consciousness we are able to touch on death as an inevitable reality, and yet the prospect of death for ourselves, or our loved ones, is often troubling and the source of intense confusion and distress. A dominant cultural response is to avoid and deny death and all that may draw us near to it. However, it has been asserted across spiritual, psychotherapeutic and even scientific domains that in contact with death, we create the possibility for proximity to full and rich contact with life.
In this two day workshop, we will move towards understanding and being with the realms of death and grief. We will engage dialogically across our humanity and mortality, reclaim the existential lineage of phenomenology and experiment with how to be present to our own experiences of grief and death in order that we may be better positioned to offer support to others.
Who is the workshop for?
- Students, graduates
- Practitioners
- Others wanting to understand more about grief
- Participant Outcomes
- Better understanding of grief
- Connecting with others through grief
Presenter: TRACY SANTOS BSW, AMHSW, MGestTherapy, DipST, STAA
Tracy Santos is a psychotherapist, mental health social worker and educator who has been working as a clinician in private practice for 20 years. She is on faculty at Gestalt Therapy Brisbane and lectures at Southern Cross University on grief and trauma informed practice in the human services.
Tracy has trained and specialised in the field of death and dying, grief and bereavement for the last 17 years and worked with individuals and couples, as a trainer and as a supervisor to other clinicians. She has been closely affiliated with the Amitayus Home Hospice Service in the Byron Shire since 2003 and is on their training committee and team. Tracy has a strong interest in educating people from the community and in professional roles to compassionately care for the dying and be informed and practiced in how to be and work with those experiencing grief.
This course counts towards 12 hours of category A CPD.
Click here to register https://www.gestalttherapybrisbane.qld.edu.au/product/being-with-grief-and-death