Grief & Spiritual Care
Message Wednesday December 7, 2022 r
Re: Weekly drop in and forthcoming Grief Recovery groups
Message Wednesday December 7, 2022 r
Re: Weekly drop in and forthcoming Grief Recovery groups
Wednesday Greetings Dec. 7:Re: weekly drop in support group in Sturgeon at St. Andrew's (opposite Giant Tiger)
1. Dec. 7: Hope to have door open by customary 1 pm (but gonna be tight today).
Though not required, 3 regrets today from Shaun, Noella, & Jennifer. Welcome to last week's newcomer, and one considering checking us out.
2 Dec. 14: Theme: Coping with Holidays & Anniversary Dates.
3. Dec. 21: Winter Solstice (Change in Season) informal gathering. We need to see who is around/interested. (Jeff can be onsite)
4. A Feedback Survey in the works: (ASAP as Hardcopy OR email option) for your suggestions and needs to determine "Next steps and formats" for moving forward in 2023.
However, send or tell us verbally or by email anytime
5. 8 Session Grief Recovery Method dates in early 2023, to be determined soon. First of 8 will be a free information session, followed by non-refundable registration fee, and then remaining 6 sessions with a per session value attached.
Meanwhile, one can visit:
griefrecoverymethod.com,
Facebook YOUR GRIEF MATTERS via Esther for hope,
705 493 9784 call or text
Weekly Wednesday Drop-In Changes for time and programme
Jan 25 and Feb 1 to 1:00 to 3:00
with 2 FREE Introductions to Grief Recovery Method.
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Sturgeon Falls St. Andrew's United Church
(opposite Giant Tiger on Holditch, back entrance)
Just show up or contact us:
Jeff 705 493 9784 Call or Text
Anne [email protected] for bilingual reply
Weekly Wednesday Drop-In Changes for time and programme
Jan 25 and Feb 1 to 1:00 to 3:00
with 2 FREE Introductions to Grief Recovery Method.
(SCROLL DOWN for Next Block of Details)
Sturgeon Falls St. Andrew's United Church
(opposite Giant Tiger on Holditch, back entrance)
Just show up or contact us:
Jeff 705 493 9784 Call or Text
Anne [email protected] for bilingual reply
As Certified Grief Recovery Specialists
we can facilitate 8 session group programme called The Grief Recovery Method
for your growth & healing.
Visit also
Facebook yourgriefmatters/estherforhope
ANNOUNCING beginning WEDNESDAYS JANUARY 25th and FEBRUARY 1 2023
2 Free Introductions to Grief Recovery Method's 8 Sessions Grief Support Group
The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses
Myths about grief:
Time heals all wounds
⦁ Replace the loss
⦁ Grieve alone
⦁ Be strong for others
⦁ Bury your feelings
Your feelings are normal and natural. The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural.
Whether your loss is from:
⦁ Death
⦁ Divorce or end of a relationship
⦁ Loss of a career
⦁ Loss of trust
⦁ Loss of faith
⦁ Loss of safety
⦁ Loss of health
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
From 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's Church
At Holditch & William Streets/opposite Giant Tiger, STURGEON FALLS
People say you have to let go and move on in your life, but they don’t tell you what you need to do to accomplish that. The Grief Recovery Method® Outreach Program not only makes that possible, but provides partnerships and guidance to ensure that it happens.
For further information call/text/email:
J E F F A R C H A M B E A U L T Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®• 705 493 9784
A N N E H A M P E L
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® •(bilingual) • [email protected]
Copyrights © / Trademarks (TM). ©1993-Present, Grief Recovery Institute®, John W. James, and Russell P. Friedman. All Grief Recovery Institute® related copyrights/trademarks are owned by The Grief Recovery Institute, John W. James, and Russell P. Friedman including but not limited to: The Grief Recovery Institute®, The Grief Recovery Method®, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, Grief❣Recovery®, and AARAM Formula®. All rights reserved. 1/20/2023 11:40 AM
ANNOUNCING beginning WEDNESDAYS JANUARY 25th and FEBRUARY 1 2023
2 Free Introductions to Grief Recovery Method's 8 Sessions Grief Support Group
The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses
Myths about grief:
Time heals all wounds
⦁ Replace the loss
⦁ Grieve alone
⦁ Be strong for others
⦁ Bury your feelings
Your feelings are normal and natural. The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural.
Whether your loss is from:
⦁ Death
⦁ Divorce or end of a relationship
⦁ Loss of a career
⦁ Loss of trust
⦁ Loss of faith
⦁ Loss of safety
⦁ Loss of health
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
From 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's Church
At Holditch & William Streets/opposite Giant Tiger, STURGEON FALLS
People say you have to let go and move on in your life, but they don’t tell you what you need to do to accomplish that. The Grief Recovery Method® Outreach Program not only makes that possible, but provides partnerships and guidance to ensure that it happens.
For further information call/text/email:
J E F F A R C H A M B E A U L T Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®• 705 493 9784
A N N E H A M P E L
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® •(bilingual) • [email protected]
Copyrights © / Trademarks (TM). ©1993-Present, Grief Recovery Institute®, John W. James, and Russell P. Friedman. All Grief Recovery Institute® related copyrights/trademarks are owned by The Grief Recovery Institute, John W. James, and Russell P. Friedman including but not limited to: The Grief Recovery Institute®, The Grief Recovery Method®, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, Grief❣Recovery®, and AARAM Formula®. All rights reserved. 1/20/2023 11:40 AM
G R I E F care
GRIEF GROUPS.
8 two hour sessions (in person or sometimes online).
GRIEF COUNSELLING.
One to one:
Zoom / Telephone / Agreed upon safe place.
Contact me with your questions:
705 493 9784 with text
(Or use CONTACT button near top of page ---- right of "HOME" button).
Visit: griefrecoverymethod.com
M A R R I A G E celebrant
WEDDINGS 2022.
As covid restrictions reduce,
options are opening up again.
Let's talk.
Contact me with your questions:
705 493 9784 with text
(Or use CONTACT button near top of page ---- right of "HOME" button).
Visit: griefrecoverymethod.com
M E M O R I A L care services
CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE / FUNERALS
Graveside, Memorials, Online Services, wherever and whenever it suits you:
funeral home or personal home, cottage or lakeside, in a field, on the water, or wherever makes sense to gather and honour the one you care about.
Contact me with your questions:
705 493 9784 with text
(Or use CONTACT button near top of page ---- right of "HOME" button).
Visit: griefrecoverymethod.com
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New GRIEF RECOVERY
Support Groups will be formed
once we have a sufficient core number interested and ready.
Eight 2 hour sessions.
Contact"
Esther 249 991 0035
Anne 705 840 6300 (bilingual)
Jeff 705 493 9784
A non refundable Registration Fee secures your space once you are ready to do the work.
We have provided 8 session groups
over 14 time in Near North venues since 2015
with various team member combinations of
Team members.
There are also plenty of awesome "alumni" of its method out there. Their testimonials appear below and online at HQ website.
You can see some of their
Testimonials further below
My awesome current teammates Esther Pennell and Anne Hampel are ready to commit again to every participant start to finish (in between sessions, and even beyond them sometimes!).
It is a profound process which produces growth and healing. Don’t wait.
We are in West Nipissing at present and eventually Huntsville and New Liskeard are on the radar.
Again, this is an EIGHT SESSION 2 HOURS PER WEEK journey into grief, what it is, and discover from your own and history of losses how to move forward into a recovery action. It results in a tool to complete pieces of your grief NOW, and, for the REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Its evidence-based method coordinated worldwide from the Grief Recovery Institute available for over 40 years around the world now.
Don't wait to attend to your broken heart pieces..
See our newly evolving website:
Visit
www.griefrecoverymethod.com (HQ Institute)
Also: Your Grief Matters on Facebook
(by Esther Pennell)
https://www.facebook.com/search/
What Makes Us Different?
Our team of Grief Recovery Experts are dedicated to helping the world recover from tragic loss and overcome grief. We specialize in non-traditional groups, we speak straight from the heart, and the heartache resulting from loss is our only topic.
Non-Traditional Groups
Traditional support groups encourage grievers to talk about their pain but don’t always offer a path to recovery. You will use the official Grief Recovery format to guide its participants to take clear actions that will lead them to a happier life.
Straight From the Heart
Grief is a normal and natural emotional reaction to loss, but most of the solutions people are taught are intellectual. You’ll guide people from their heads to their hearts, which will improve the quality of their lives. Although the training is partially educational, the solution is emotional.
Loss is our Only Topic
If you’re like most people you relate grief to death, but here are over 40 types of loss people can experience in their lifetime! Since grief is normal and natural we don’t want to confuse it with personality disorders.
Who are we anyway?
40 Years and Counting
We have been refining our method for over 40 years. At last count, we have helped over 1 million grieving people between our books, phone support and all of the lives that our Grief Recovery Specialists have touched.
Grief + Recovery
No one used the words grief and recovery together until we did. The only people authorized to use the phrase are Grief Recovery Specialists who attended Grief Recovery Certification Training.
GRIEF RECOVERY® SUPPORT GROUPS
Anne, Esther, & Jeff currently co-facilitate groups as a
Team of Certified Grief-Recovery® Specialists Team
Jan.2022: Current 8 session set in North Bay (CLOSED)
Mar. 2022: New group at The Villlage at CANADORE College
Mar. 2022: Find us also helping weekly Nipissing Serenity HOSPICE
- Seasoned by Personal Losses
- Educated in the School of Life
- And Professional Credentials to guide you through
8 Two-hour Sessions
Questions & To Register: Call /Text
Jeff
705 493 9784 + Facebook: Grief and Spiritual Care
Esther
249 991 0035 + Facebook: Your Grief Matters
Anne
[email protected] (Bi-lingual)
Also Visit:
Put in Postal Code or City to find us or someone nearer to you
I collapsed at 42, not knowing my own grief from incompletely recognized and un-communicated feelings. At that time I was what I'd now call (with humour) "male challenged". I was a human DO-ing, not a human BE-ing. Give. Give. Give. Do Do. Do.
LOSSES & CHANGES included a
Life role (1998)
Mom (2012
Employment (2014),
My buddy of 25 years (2015)
and ---
My Best Friend / Wife / Life Partner JOAN (2017)
Followed immediately by
Dad (2017)
My home (2018)
and many, many more...
We each have a story. Yet, I am still standing and learning to live with loss, change, and grief.
GRIEF GUIDE PHRASES evolved. I coined them:
- "I am Ok, except when I am not";
- "I don't know if I am coming or going: so I just do both";
- "I am strong enough to be weak" ( = vulnerable).
- "I hurry if I have to, but cannot rush"
- "Anybody can learn from easy"
- "It's okay to feel sorrow-y for your SELF"
What I want to convey is this:
I survived at first, and today am remarkably recovered.
I feel alive, despite, through, and because of it all.
I was able to be open to my grieving.
And, I continue in my passion to accompany others through all of theirs.
I am a Chaplain at North Bay Regional Health Centre again as well as in the Community.
I have professionally assisted others in psychiatric & general hospitals, correctional settings, previously in University and Churches.
My life prepared me for grief care
having always noticed it and named it for others,
and then for myself!
Society often rushes us or wants us to skip the process. It may not know how to deal with it . Resources may be limited.
My Life Learnings:
- Kindergarten (how to share)
- Sociology ( People & Culture)
- Master of Divinity (God talk)
- Institute for Black Catholic Studies (Sing & Move Spirituality)
- Clinical Pastoral Education ( Professional spiritual healthcare)
Post Kindergarten and the School of Life:
Grief Recovery Method deepened my ability to BE OPEN and SHARE & TALK about feelings, and accompany people to the DEPTHS of their pain.... and onward from sheer survival to feeling alive again through both the pain-tears and a joy-laughter. Don't do it all alone. I tried that. Check it out. www.griefrecoverymethod.com
One tool I use is Grief Recovery Method:
structured, clear, methodical, evidence-based,
and most importantly, available!
It helped me through mind bending losses,
and became an effective primary tool to help others through their waves of crazy-making, soul wrenching, spirit crushing life changing losses and events.
EVIDENCE-BASED: The Grief Recovery Method
Update Note (2/7/20): Dr. Nolan's primary email to contact her with questions is now [email protected]
For the first time ever, our research team has established evidence that the 8-week GRM program works to influence components of grief and grief recovery!
What this means is that the GRM is (now) evidence-based and can be referred to as an evidence-based program.
The following links to our published research on the program will provide you with the evidence to show when asked, “Is the program evidence-based?”
Access to the 1 st published article, Measurement Development and Validation for Construct Validity of the Treatment: The Grief Recovery Method® Instrument (GRM-I), can be obtained through the American Journal of Health Education by clicking the following link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19325037.2019.1571962
Citation:
Nolan RD, Hallam JS. Measurement Development and Validation for Construct Validity of the Treatment: The Grief Recovery Method® Instrument (GRM-I). Am J Health Educ. 2019; 1:e1-14. doi:10.1080/19325037.2019.1571962.
Access to the 2 nd published article, Construct Validity of the Theory of Grief Recovery (TOGR): A New Paradigm Toward Our Understanding of Grief and Loss, can be obtained through the American Journal of Health Education by clicking the following link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19325037.2019.1571964
Citation:
Nolan RD, Hallam JS. Construct Validation of the Theory of Grief Recovery (TOGR): A new paradigm towards our understanding of grief and loss. Am J Health Educ. 2019; 1:e1-12. doi:10.1080/19325037.2019.1571964.
For additional information on the evidence-based grief recovery program or if you have questions about the evidence, please visit the Specialist Resource Center of the GRM website and select the GRM Evidence-Based Research tab to learn more. You may also contact the lead researcher, Dr. Rachael D. Nolan via email at [email protected]
GRIEF GROUPS.
8 - two hour sessions (in person or sometimes online).
GRIEF COUNSELLING.
One to one: Zoom / Telephone / Meet in agreed upon safe place.
WEDDINGS 2022.
Options have opened up again. Let's talk.
MEMORIALS & CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE.
Graveside, Memorials, Online Services, wherever and whenever it suits you:
Funeral home or other institutions
Personal Property such as home, cottage or at the lake
In your field, the Bush, or on a street corner,
Wherever makes sense for you to gather and honour the one you care about.
Contact me with your questions:
705 493 9784 with text
(Or use CONTACT button near top of page ---- right of "HOME" button).
Visit: griefrecoverymethod.com
* * Covid Protocols (when required during in-person sessions)
- Come with no symptoms
- Certificates of vaccination when required OR rapid testing at some venues)
- Your own mask to wear throughout
- Bring your own beverage container
- Follow sanitizing routines
- Keep 6 foot distancing,
- Initial Covid Sign in Register (**Local Public Health Guidelines are what we will follow)