Narrative Practice Workshop on Re-membering and Grief Work

Name: Narrative Practice Workshop on Re-membering and Grief Work
Start: 2024-08-31T09:30:00+08:00
End: 2024-09-01T17:00:00+08:00
Location: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Schedule

Sat Aug 31 2024 at 09:30 am to Sun Sep 01 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong, HK

Creating Stories of Love and Resilience in the Face of Death and Grief
If death doesn’t mean saying goodbye, how are we freed to grieve differently? During this two day workshop, we will explore how to craft loving conversations using innovative ideas that challenge prescriptive notions found in conventional grief psychology. We will practice numerous entry points into conversations with people who are dying and grieving, including discussions regarding difficult and sudden deaths or the impact on grief when a relationship was highly complicated.
Conversations such as what we will be learning about and practicing are founded in narrative theory and practice that highlights stories of love and connection, even when this is about a person who has passed. In this way, we can speak about death and grief differently; less about the passive suffering of loss and more about growing invigorating relational identity stories amid the ongoing transitions that come into view when death and grief are present. Attending this workshop will foster a sense or liveliness and provide a new way to think about death and grief, professionally and personally.
Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Hedtke
Date: 31 August and 1 September 2024 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. (12 hours)
Venue: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Fee: Regular HK$ 1,800
HKMFTA Members / PolyU Students $1,500 per person

About the Trainer
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.
Dr. Hedtke 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. Her 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 published work, 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
Registration Link: https://hkmfta.wildapricot.org/event-5730459