This 2-day experiential workshop invites mental health professionals into a reflective and participatory exploration of the intersection between Existential and Grief Therapy. Designed for clinicians supporting clients through death and non-death losses—including personal, relational, and collective grief—this 2-day online workshop encourages participants to engage with their own lived experiences of loss as well as examining the core principles of both grief and existential therapies.  These foundational capacities are essential as therapists accompany clients in navigating meaning, mortality, freedom, isolation, and responsibility—existential themes that often surface through the experience of loss. An Existential Model of Grieving will be introduced to strengthen clinicians’ ability to support clients in integrating grief in ways that are deeply personal, relational, and human. This model emphasizes bearing witness to suffering, turning toward felt losses and collaboratively discovering how these experiences can be woven into a meaningful ongoing life. Through large and small group processes, participants will be invited into an embodied, communal experience of existential grieving addressing loss personally, professionally, and collectively, while deepening their understanding of how community and authenticity sustain us through grief’s unfolding.

Continuing Education Credits: 12 hours, CECs available upon request

Participants will be provided a certificate of completion at the end of the workshop. Fill out our registration form or email at hello@cieal.ca.