01 May Transforming Loss, Finding Potential for Growth Teleconference

On Tuesday, May 8th, from 2:00-4:30 pm Brattleboro Area Hospice will present the Hospice Foundation of America’s Annual National Living with Grief Program, “Transforming Loss, Finding Potential for Growth”.   This free educational teleconference, open to anyone in the community who would like to attend, is made possible in part through the generosity of the Brattleboro Retreat.  It will take place in the Brattleboro Retreat Education Conference Center, One Anna Marsh Lane, Brattleboro.  Two hours of continuing education credit are available through the Hospice Foundation of America.

This inspirational program is about positive change and action by the bereaved in the aftermath of loss.  It will help counselors and others working with bereaved persons to identify and examine transformative experiences in the wake of death loss.

A panel of individuals with expertise in this work will discuss the content of the program following the presentation.  They include Janet Schreiber, PhD., former director of Grief Counseling Program, Southwestern College and former director of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Hospice Institute, Eli Burke, MEd, LICSW, clinical social worker and expressive arts therapist who has extensive experience in grief and loss, and Judy Young van Wageningen, retired educator, grief support group facilitator, and bereaved mother who lost her 32-year-old son in 2012.

Registration for this free event is appreciated but not necessary.  Please contact Connie Baxter, Brattleboro Area Hospice Bereavement Program Coordinator at (802) 257-0775 ext. 104 or email Connie Baxter.