Grief Support Certification Course

My personal and professional backgrounds have informed me that often the deepest pain of grief is experienced at a spiritual level.

My experiences, and the reports from the hundreds of grieving clients I have worked with, indicate that once the spiritual wounds are healed, the mental, emotional, and physical effects of grief can be more rapidly, more effectively, and more easily, also healed. 

Within the context of this course, spirituality is described as a human being’s personal relationship to what is meaningful to him or her, and what gives direction and purpose to their life.

The spiritual needs as identified by Carson and co-authors in Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice are: the need for love, trust, hope, forgiveness, belonging, and meaning and purpose in life.

According to these authors and other researchers, all people are considered to have a spiritual dimension regardless of if or how it is expressed or practiced. Spiritual distress is the suffering experienced when one or more of the spiritual needs are not met, as frequently happens during times of grief. 

Mission Statement 

Since grief affects every aspect of human beings, interventions must be wholistic in nature. The grief theory and associated healing methods taught in the Grief Support Certification Course are strategies of proven success.

They support healing of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual manifestations of grief.

Knowledge and skills for helping and healing behaviors that affect the family and social life, including the work life of grievers, are included as important portions of the learning and healing experiences.