CarePoint Seminars

This registration is an add-on for continuing education credits only and applies only to the live conference (no credits will be given for the recorded version).

To register for the conference, please visit Adam Young Counseling.

This program has been approved by the National Association of Social Workers-Missouri Chapter for 6.5 social work clock hours per approval certificate # OA 090625-043.

Additional continuing education approval is pending. This page will be updated with the latest information when available.

In order to receive continuing education credit, participation codes shared during the conference will need to be input on the required evaluation of the seminar and presenter. This evaluation will be emailed after the conclusion of the conference. No partial credit will be given.

Description

Adam Young will be joined by hospital chaplain Joon Park to explore the vital role of sorrow and grief in the human experience. Drawing on the work of Francis Weller and his book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, the conference reframes grief not as a problem to be fixed but as a necessary, life-affirming response to loss and disappointment. We examine how modern culture shames and silences our sorrows, often leaving them exiled in the basement of our hearts, and how this suppression leads to isolation and disconnection. Participants are invited to consider four essential conditions for healing: honoring sorrow as serious, approaching it with compassion rather than contempt, finding a trustworthy village of witnesses, and engaging the body through ritual. We will also examine common myths about grief and go into depth about how to "be with" the grieving—including what to say and what not to say.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn:

• What grief is and how to respond to our sorrow in a way that brings healing
• Common myths about grief
• The history of grief (colonialism and the suppression of grief)
• How to "be with" the grieving
• What to say and what not to say to those who are grieving
• Why we tend to offer platitudes to the grieving