Our Complete Grief Training - All Levels
Professional Certificate in Loss and Grief
Grief Literacy is particularly relevant and important for teachers, frontline staff, clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers, any staff members and anyone who wants to become more grief literate.
Some bereaved people find it helpful to learn about loss and grief in this way too.
Learning Outcomes
Level One - Foundation Certificate in Loss and Grief
Understand how grief is a normal, adaptive response to loss and part of our common humanity.
Learn how to acknowledge loss, validate emotions and support individual grief responses with compassion.
Develop the communication skills necessary to offer level one bereavement support.
Critically appreciate the significance of self-care, resilience and psychological flexibility.
Gain confidence through a stronger understanding of the common reactions to loss and the different levels of need.
Know when and how to signpost to other levels of support.
Understand how we respond to a person’s loss can either ease or exacerbate the experience for them.
Understand the importance of listening and offering specific, personalized support.
Level Two - Intermediate Certificate in Loss and Grief
Offer individualized interpersonal responses to grief based on unique circumstances or demographics such as race, gender, age, relationship to the deceased or type of loss.
Understand how factors such as social network and personal circumstances impact the bereavement experience.
Understand the limits of what you can achieve and how to work ethically with loss and grief.
Build capacity for being alongside painful emotions.
Learn how to offer safe space for people to process events of loss.
Understand how the needs of bereaved can be emotional, psychological, physical, financial and practical and those needs often evolve with time.
Competently assess the service level need of individual and understand appropriate referral pathways.
Build on the knowledge and competencies gained in Level One.
Level Three - Advanced Certificate in Loss and Grief
Improve grief assessment skills and gain the ability to recognize maladaptive coping.
Be equipped to support individuals with complex and intense bereavement needs.
Recognise signs of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) or risk of developing PGD.
Understand how grief affects the body physically, specifically the impact on the nervous system and how this can cause significant decrements to physical and mental health.
Understand difference between primary and secondary losses and their impact;
Be able to identify acute, integrated and prolonged grief.
Gain advanced knowledge and skills for supporting the bereaved, using tools such as the Range of Response to Loss Model and the Adult Attitude to Grief Model.
Understand the needs of families when a child is dying.
Learn advanced communication skills around dying and death.
How to support a tender death for care home staff.
Level Four - Prolonged Grief Disorder and it's Treatment
Further develop skills to explain clearly to clients the difference between acute grief, integrated grief and prolonged grief disorder
Be able to identify thought patterns or behaviors that are ‘derailing’ an adaptive grieving process
Gain awareness of diagnostic criteria in both the ICD-11 & the DSM V
Understand the different tools used in Prolonged Grief Therapy Assessment
Understand the different core procedures used in the treatment of Prolonged Grief Disorder
Be signposted to more advanced Prolonged Grief Disorder Treatment and Research.
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Professional Certificate in Grief and Loss - What's Included?
Our training also comes with access to the best international Grief Specialists in our Staffroom
Your subscription gives you 9 months access to Course videos, audio and transcripts
Level One
Topics Covered
- Theories and Models of Grief and Loss
- Who needs Grief Therapy?
- Grief and Loss Master Overview
- The Art of Listening
- Compassion and Burnout for Caregivers
- Understanding and Supporting Refugees
Contributors
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Dr Kathryn Mannix, Retired Palliative Care Consultant & Author
- Caoimhe Butterly, Psychotherapist, Humanitarian & Activist.
- Dr Denis Klass
- Dr Colin Murray Parkes
- Dr Jon Mills
- Dr Kenneth Doka
Level Two
- Ambiguous Loss
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Anticipatory Grief
- Black Grief
- Grief and Older People
- LGBTQ+ Grief
- Parental Bereavement
- Perinatal Loss Introduction
- Loss by Suicide
- Sibling Loss
- Separation & Divorce
- Ethical Practice in Grief Counselling
- Dr Pauline Boss
- Dr Kenneth Doka
- Katrina Taee & Wendelien McNicoll
- Dr Mekel Harris
- Dr Katrin Gerber
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Gill Mann, Psychotherapist
- Brenda Casey, Bereavement Midwife
- Interview with Fiona Tuomey
- Niamh Fitzpatrick, Psychologist
- Dr Kale Monk
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
Level Three
- Pain & Choice in Grief
- How Grief Manifests in the Body
- Creating a Resilience Cloak
- Polyvagal Theory in Clinical Practice
- Clinical Interventions: AAG Scale & RRL Model
- Grief Counselling & Grief Therapy
- Traumatic Loss & Traumatic Grief
- Communicating around Dying & Death
- When a Child is Terminally ill
- Supporting a Tender Death
- Death Denial in Clinical Practice
- Gill Mann, Psychotherapist & Author
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Dr Diana Sands, Suicide Specialist
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Dr Linda Machin, Grief Specialist
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Meghan Riordan Jarvis, Social Worker
- Dr Kathryn Mannix, Palliative Care Consultant
- Dr Sheila Boland, Clinical Psychologist
- Dr Esther Ramsay Jones, Psychoanalyst
- Juliet Rosenfeld & Dr Dan Gordon
Level Four
- Prolonged Grief Disorder & Prolonged Grief Therapy, an Overview
- Prolonged Grief Disorder
- Prolonged Grief Therapy
- James' Story of Prolonged Grief
- Fiona's Story of Prolonged Grief
- Dr Susan Delaney
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- Liz Gleeson, Psychotherapist & Grief Specialist
- James
- Fiona
Endorsements
What our Course Attendees are saying
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As a professional therapist, I am grateful that this course exists. This course explores in-depth, the many many shapes of grief that we all may face professionally and personally. It is academically strong and the content is so relatable. I have recommended it to many colleagues and will continue to do so.
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Mary
Cancer Care Employee
Ireland
“
The Shapes of Grief course is honestly more than just a worthwhile CPD experience.
The quality of the content, the depth of the topics covered, the wealth of material and the emotional integrity at the centre of all of the modules - it is a course that has deepened my knowledge of grief and the grieving process.
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Mary Kate Kelly
Psychotherapist
Ireland
“
Shapes of Grief, the online grief training program, is put together by Liz Gleeson with a lot of thought and passion.
The topics are selected and organized in a way that offers a holistic understanding of grief. I am a psychotherapist with experience in grief, & I highly recommend this course.
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Salma Mahmoud
Psychotherapist, Egypt
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Shapes of Grief Training Programme
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