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Grief Coach Certification Program

The First Step to Becoming a Certified Grief Coach

This Certification prepares you to become a Professional Grief Coach who assist, comfort and encourage mourners. Students will learn skills that will empower them to succeed:

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  • How to Actively Listen so that People Feel Heard

  • What Questions to Ask to Reach the Heart

  • How to know when/if Clients Need Higher Level of Care

  • Show Genuine Compassion to the Suffering

  • Identify Special Challenges to Moving Foward

  • Visualize an Abundant Future without Their Loved One

  • Harness Hope to Enable Clients to Thrive 

Certified Grief Coach Certification Includes 8 Courses

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  • Fundamentals of Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Person-Centered, Cognitive, Pastoral Counseling

  • Attachment Theory

  • Grief & Mourning Foundational Beliefs

  • Mourner-Centered Talk Therapy

  • New Model of Grief

  • Living in the Reality of the Loss

  • Grief's Physical Side Effects

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  • The Grief Recovery Process

  • Shock: Nature's Anaesthetic

  • Dealing with Law Enforcement

  • Understanding the Six Needs of Mourning

  • The Language of Mourners

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  • The Aftermath

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  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Abortion, Stillbirth, Miscarriage

  • Why Did My Baby Die

  • Unidentified Risks of Pregnancy Loss

  • Separation, Solitude and Isolation

  • Facing Loss

  • Acceptance

  • Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant

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  • The Worst Loss

  • What Parents Lose

  • The Family Undone: What Siblings Lose

  • How Could it Happen? The Ways Children Die

  • Acute Grief

  • Mourning: The Long Haul

  • Suspended in Pain: Barriers to Grieving &  Their Resolution

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  • The Emotional, Physical, Mental, Relational, Spiritual and Future Impact

  • Stigma & Facing the World

  • Guilt & Shame

  • Legal Repercussions

  • The Disease of Addiction

  • Bearing the Unbearable

  • Living Forward

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  • Every 17 Minutes

  • The Suicidal Mind

  • The Fatal Journey

  •  Dispel the Misconceptions about Suicide

  •  Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief

  •  Seek Reconciliation, Not Resolution

  •  Nurture Yourself

  •  Appreciate Your Transformation

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  • Understanding the Origins of Complicated Grief

  • Identifying Complicated Grief - Symptoms and Categories

  • Guilt, Regret and Self Blame

  • Unembarked Grief

  • Companioning People experiencing Complicated Relief

  • The Griever’s Relationship to the Person Who Died

  • Show Up and Enter their World

  • What Helps in Grief often Helps in Life

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  • Every Loss Has Meaning: What is Meaning?

  • Grief Must Be Witnessed

  • The Meaning of Death

  • The First Step in Finding Meaning

  • More Love Than Pain

  • The Legacy

  • Everything Has Changed Forever

GLOBAL GRIEF INSTITUTE

info@GlobalGriefInstitute.com

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The Global Grief Institute does not provide Grief Coaching, Crisis Coaching, Mental Health Counseling or Trauma Coaching or therapeutic support. If you or someone you know is suicidal or in emotional distress, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or connect with their online chat here (https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/). Trained crisis workers are available to talk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your confidential and toll-free call provides crisis counseling and mental health referrals.

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