How You can Work with Inner Harbor
It's been a busy first quarter providing grief support and education. I wanted to take this time to provide a brief summary of the work I'm doing, and have planned for the next few months, as well as talk to you about how Inner Harbor may be able to support your efforts to provide quality service to people you work with after a loss.
I write this newsletter from upstate New York. This past weekend, I facilitated a grief retreat for college students who had experienced the death of an important person in their lives. We talked, ate, engaged in some creative expression and provided support to one another. It was an inspiring weekend and I think the participants felt grateful for the opportunity. I then met with a group of staff at the college to provide education about how to support grieving students on campus. This training can be customized to fit the specific needs of your school. This time, I spent an hour with a variety of staff focused on becoming more aware of our own reactions to loss and how that may impact the way we treat other grievers. We also talked about how to normalize conversations about loss long after a death has occurred.
In the past few months, here is some of the work I have done:
1. Self-care and burnout presentation to higher education professionals
2. Making meaning after a loss at college presentation
3. Supporting students through COVID-19 and beyond workshop
4. Working with grief in a therapy practice presentation
5. Twice monthly support groups through a funeral home
6. Provided immediate support to schools following the death of a student
7. Written blogs and newsletters for my own business as well as for others
Coming up, I will be :
1. Training middle and high school staff to prepare students after a loss to go to college
2. Creating a bereavement policy infographic for college administrators and leaders
3. Training a local grief support center's volunteers to support children after loss
4. Presenting at a national conference about working with colleges and universities to best support grieving students