The NAPT Education Committee Presents
Narrative Therapy & Grief Counseling
The Poetry of Re-membering
This brief workshop will illustrate how we can bring the best of the past into forming a new and present-oriented relationship with a loved one who is no longer living. Participants will learn how to look for the poetic in holding posthumous connections close, forming questions that offer pathways for those who are bereaved to build and sustain ongoing, healthy connections with their deceased loved ones; interrupting the unrelenting pain that loss so often brings. Utilizing a narrative framework, we will speak to the relational aspects found in a loving, storied construction that walk alongside us with those whom are no longer breathing.
When: August 13, 2023, 7:00PM- 8:30 PM EST
Where: Zoom
Registration: https://poetrytherapy.org/event-5342799
Members: $15
Non-Members: $30
Facilitator: Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, PhD
About Dr. Lorraine Hedtke:
Dr. Hedtke is a well-known veteran narrative therapist who has turned the world of modern-day grief psychology completely upside down. She specializes in working within a post-structural, narrative therapy frame with people who are dying as well as with families after a loved one has died.
Dr. Hedtke teaches about death, dying and bereavement throughout the US and internationally. Her articles have appeared in numerous professional journals and magazines and she is the author of several books about grief. Her children’s book, My Grandmother is Always with Me, (2nd Ed) (Lulu Press, 2013), is written with her child, Addison Davidove. Her book, Breathing life into the stories of the dead: Constructing bereavement support groups (Taos Institute Publications, 2012) outlines an innovative and practical model for group practice. She, along with John Winslade, is one of the co-authors of the groundbreaking book, Remembering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved (Baywood, 2004) as well as is a contributor to many book chapters. She regularly consults and presents virtually and in person around the world on how to create life and love affirming conversations with people who are dying and people who are living with grief. Lorraine’s theoretical practice developed over the years as a part of her collaboration with The Dulwich Centre of Adelaide, Australia which was founded by Michael & Cheryl White and the hub for narrative counseling.
Dr. Hedtke is a Professor at California State University San Bernardino in the Masters Counseling program and the proprietor of The Fabula Center for counseling and training in Redlands, California. Her most publication, co-authored with Dr. John Winslade, The Crafting of Grief: Constructing Aesthetic Responses to Loss (2017) has been met with critical acclaim.
More about her work can be found at her website: rememberingpractices.com
Hosted by Dr. Sherry Reiter, Education Committee Chair
National Association For Poetry Therapy
