This Learning Lab will offer a specific framework for facilitating loving conversations that can respond to grief and loss using a narrative counseling lens.
Participants will learn about the thinking behind "remembering practices" where the life of stories are breathed into the relationships with the dead to lessen the pain and yearning that grief can bring.
Lorraine will offer examples and stories to frame a postmodern theory that crafts an appreciation of love and beauty to transcend the physical limitations of death.
The Learning Lab will include introductory information about how a narrative approach can address grief in complex relationships.
Lorraine has chosen Street Poets. Inc (https://streetpoetsinc.com/) to receive all fees you pay to attend. Choose Support ($15) if you are struggling financially. Choose Sustain ($30) if you are doing okay financially. Choose Champion ($35 or more determined by you) if your finances have not been impacted by these times and you are wanting to make a more generous contribution to Street Poets, Inc. in honor of Lorraine.
Lorraine Hedtke MSW, ACSW, PhD is a well-known and well-loved 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. She is a Professor and Coordinator at California State University San Bernardino in the Masters Counselling program, a longtime Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy faculty member, the proprietor of The Fabula Center for counseling and training in Redlands, California and the co-author of The Crafting of Grief: Constructing Aesthetic Responses to Loss (2017). Lorraine guides participants through new theoretical understandings and live “Re-membering” interview demonstrations with grace, wisdom and compassion.