March 2023 Grief Support Specialist Program
The Grief Support Specialist Program is an 8 week, non-credit certificate program through Continuing Education and Workforce Development at NMU. Starting March 13, 2023 through May 1, 2023. The course will be held each Monday via zoom from 6:00pm-9:00pm EST.
Participants will learn the principles and many practical tools and techniques to enhance their professional and personal life related to grief. Topics include: grief counseling theories and strategies, assessments, COVID and grief, recovery tools and intervention, attachment styles and grief, children and youth coping with grief, different age coping skills, grief groups for children, Vicarious Grief, Disenfranchised Grief, Complicated Grief coping with dying, legal issues & end of life decisions, spiritual, ethical, and culture issues, group therapy, self-care and career enhancement.
"Grief is an experience we all have to carry with us. Our task is to figure out how to carry that grief as survivors rather than as victims. The goal of this course is to help all of us (and those who look to us for assistance) become such survivors. We will never cure that terrible wound of grief, but we can find some healing in the midst of it, and that is what makes us survivors." - Douglas C. Smith M.Div., MA, MS | Lead Instructor