4 days. 16 sessions. 32 hours of live training.
A day-by-day look at exactly what you’ll cover during the Grief Recovery Method Foundational Certification training. Each day runs 8:30am to 5:30pm in your training’s local time zone, with mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks plus a 90-minute lunch.
Download Agenda PDFFoundations, the Method's principles, and your first major tool — the Loss History Graph.
Session 1
Welcome
- •Introduction to the course, overview, purpose
- •Definitions: Complete, Grief
- •Commitments and introductions
Session 2
GRM Foundational Principles
- •Born in Harmony: intuition, intellect, emotion
- •Development of the belief system
- •Myths and misinformation; physical impact of grief; STERBS
- •Jail/Present Moment; Academy Award Recovery; “I’m FINE”
Session 3
First Major GRM Tool Instruction
- •Loss History Graph: demo and introduce exercise
- •Write your Loss History Graph
Session 4
Review, Application, and Debriefing
- •Debrief, read Loss History Graphs
- •Debrief, assign homework
- •Wrap-up and closing for the day
Cause and effect, the Final Statement Form, and an introduction to the Relationship Graph.
Session 5
Understanding Human Response
- •Check-in, commitments
- •Basic Action Chain / Cause-Effect-Response: 1% Responsibility
- •Right or Happy: Pick One
Session 6
Understanding Responses to Fear
- •Introduce Final Statement Form / exercise
- •Write Final Statement Form
- •Debrief: common responses to fear; meaning of life
Session 7
Application of Sessions 5 & 6 Practical Processes
- •Final Statement Form exercise, continued
Session 8
Introduction of the Relationship Graph
- •Final Statement Form continued, in groups
- •Definitions: unconditional love, apologies, forgives, acknowledge, significant emotional statements
- •Relationship Graph: demo and choosing whom to work on
- •Wrap-up and closing for the day
Recovery components, the Completion Letter, and the Specialist Resource Center.
Session 9
Identifying Recovery Components and the Completion Process
- •Check-in
- •Recovery components: from Relationship Graph to statements
- •GRM Completion Letter: importance and how this letter differs
- •Write your Completion Letter
Session 10
Application of Sessions 8 and 9 Processes
- •Debrief letter writing
- •Relationship Graph and letter reading
- •Debrief the GRM process
Session 11
Relationship Maintenance and Core Principles & Standards
- •PS Letters, future relationships, recovery defined, summary
- •Review core principles and standards
Session 12
GRM Specialist Program Resources
- •GRM resources and materials distribution
- •Discuss GRM materials, programs, resources, and Marketing Coaching
- •Specialist Resource Center website tour
- •Assign homework, wrap-up and closing
Legal review, communication exercises, and integrating GRM into your community.
Session 13
Legal Review and Communication Techniques
- •Check-in; photo release forms
- •Review License and Service Agreement highlights
- •Feeling word exercises
Session 14
Communication Exercise & Lesson Plans
- •Paraphrasing role play
- •Review binder materials and discuss key points
- •Group photo (working lunch)
Session 15
Lesson Plans Practical Application Exercise
- •Walk through 8-Session GRM Format: practice presentations
- •Things to consider when running a group: getting-started document
Session 16
Final Review, Guidelines, and Integrating GRM Into Your Community
- •Brief discussion of one-on-one, 12-session, alumni, and pet loss formats; also doing talks
- •Helping Children with Loss: leaders’ notes and EECL demo
- •GRM evidence-based program findings
- •Share participant list, get corrections
- •Next steps: SRC, on-boarding, getting-started webinar, pilot group, activate microsite
- •Marketing Coaching, research, evidence, surveys
- •Final thoughts and wrap-up
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