Testimonials For Helping Children With Loss
The 2hr/4week program was excellent and just the right amount of time. Enough time for discussions in class and light reading as homework. Very well structured course.
Helping Children With Loss02/09/2020Participant in St. Albert , AB
Helping Children With Loss02/09/2020Participant in St albert, AB
Taking this program has motivated me to want to take the grief recovery method program for the loss I have experienced in my life.
Helping Children With Loss02/04/2020Participant in St. Albert, Alberta
It has opened my eyes to a lot of my own losses that I never dealt with and it has also opened my eyes as to how we talk to our kids and always wanting to make things better, but it’s ok to be sad, mad etc
Helping Children With Loss02/04/2020Participant in St albert, Ab
I found the Grief Recovery Method to be a wonderful and positive way of working through issues I have held onto since childhood. My parents divorced when I was 5 and I really never paid attention to how much it affected me throughout my lifetime. Through this process, I have realized the ways I have sabotaged my success because of fear. My inner child was so crushed from the past that I was having trouble understanding why I could not move forward on certain issues as an adult. One of the profound things I learned is how important it is to express apologies, forgiveness and significant emotional statements aloud to another living person. I still don’t quite understand why that is so powerful, but it is! I feel like I have permission to “feel”. Thank you for this class. It was life changing!
Helping Children With Loss01/29/2020Participant in Tucson, AZ
By taking this class, I learned to correct some myth that's used in our daily language and conversation which may have devastating effects on all of us. I also became aware of how important it is to complete your loss, regardless of age.
Helping Children With Loss01/29/2020Participant in Tucson, AZ, AZ
I went to the program after the death of my husband. Being the mother of 12 children, I soon realized different children were reacting differently and I was ill equip to handle my own grief and theirs as well. I was looking for help. This program helped me see my children through different eyes. It gave me practical information that could be put into place immediately. I learned how to listen and not just react or try to fix the problems. We utilized the "Good-bye" letters as a birthday present this past Christmas. It was a life changing program for us!!!
Helping Children With Loss12/03/2019Participant in Newport, RI
Helping Children With Loss11/05/2019Participant in Peoria, AZ
It has provided a source of understanding grief. My first comment to Ricki was "I am Irish, Catholic and we don't do grief".. Was I wrong. During the reading of the book "When Children Grieve" I felt feelings for events in my life that I had buried deep in my Emotional Backpack. I have ordered the Grief Recovery Method to use to open my heart up to healing. I am prepared to do the work and not afraid of the outcome. Ricki gave me that gift.
Helping Children With Loss11/05/2019Participant in Peoria, AZ
Helping Children With Loss10/15/2019Participant in Broomall, PA
Having a framework for processing grief is so much more helpful than just floundering around trying to cope on my own. Searching and trying to implement other resources would have cost me more time and agony. The system's way of organizing the events and emotions so that a person can complete a goodbye letter in a meaningful manner, is a brilliant tool. So thankful to have met Ann and completed this program with her.
Helping Children With Loss10/03/2019Participant in Vancouver, Washington
It has given me the confidence to talk to my granddaughters when questions arise. Some of the program suggestions will be passed onto their mother and father for use in the future.
Helping Children With Loss09/29/2019Participant in Wimberley, TX
Volunteering with youth, there are always losses. This will better equip me to properly assist them through the experience.
Helping Children With Loss09/05/2019Participant in westervill, OH
I was new to the basic concepts of "completion" by means of discovery and communication. The overall structure of the theory is clear and useful. The notion of STERBs directs attention to lots of various ways that uncompleted grief can manifest itself. The initial presentation of six faulty ways to respond to loss was sensible and helpful. The main idea is that emotions are real. If we don't allow children to feel their feelings, those feelings get stuffed down and become dangerous. It was easy to identify examples in my own childhood when I was told to "be strong" and deny my feelings. I found the training helpful mostly in completing aspects of my own grief (my wife died three years ago). But it also helps in thinking through my relationships with my grandchildren.
Helping Children With Loss08/27/2019Participant in Newberg, OR
I feel appropriately educated to help both children and adults dealing with grief.
Helping Children With Loss07/17/2019
Reading the book: Helping Children Grieve, was quite helpful. I feel better equipped to recognize symptoms of grief in someone else, better able to help my own children through losses in their lives, and more aware of the different aspects of completing a loss. I found some of the specific vocabulary from the book strange at first (e.g. STERBS, and "completing a loss"), but once we discussed these terms as a class, I found them more helpful. One of the most helpful aspects of the book and the class was the checklists for experiences of loss and the related practice in identifying those aspects of loss in the case studies. I appreciated the opportunities to listen to other participants' responses to the readings. I think that the class might be enhanced by more specific questions/ prompts for homework. In a group setting, where the goal is not to deal with our own experiences of loss, it was difficult to avoid becoming too personal in our own stories.
Helping Children With Loss07/01/2019
Helping Children With Loss06/20/2019
Went to the class to support my son who is an educator. I had recently had some losses and learned about helping children deal with loss and took away many ideas to help myself. I now feel that i have the tools to help a child dealing with loss.
Helping Children With Loss06/17/2019
Helping Children With Loss06/06/2019
It worked very well, and I learned a lot of very helpful things. I did find the method very narrow in how it seeks to guide people to completion of grief though. That doesn't mean it's bad. It could be better though.
Helping Children With Loss06/01/2019
Helping Children With Loss06/01/2019
Helping Children With Loss05/17/2019Participant in Hinton, Alberta
Helping Children With Loss05/17/2019Participant in Hinton, Alberta
Helping Children With Loss05/17/2019Participant in Hinton, AB