The Art of Healing Loss

Support and Renewal for Professionals Working With Veterans in Healthcare Settings

• Use the Creative Healing Approach tools and techniques to access your own potential for healing

• Increase your resilience in working with veterans and others you treat

• Manage the stress of provider fatigue

• Combine the expressive arts with mindful-based processes to address feelings of loss and trauma in yourself and the ones you serve

What It Is

This two-day training offers an innovative, holistic approach to managing the stress of provider fatigue that often affects healthcare professionals working with veterans while at the same time introducing them to new tools and techniques for addressing the trauma their clients carry. 

Who It's For

Designed for nurses, social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists, physical therapists and hospital chaplains, the program introduces the power of the Creative Healing Approach to support the concerns of veteran populations dealing with loss and grief.

How It Works

The Art of Healing Loss provides a nourishing retreat for healthcare professionals where they can interact with their colleagues, release the absorbed impact of veteran trauma and tap into the creative, intuitive aspects of their own potential for healing.  Using the arts and guided processes to release stored emotions, participants reflect upon personal loss in order to experience firsthand the Art of Healing Loss process.  Group discussion and mind-body approaches such as guided introspection, awareness breathing and self-expression (movement, drawing, writing) will establish restorative techniques for dealing with compassion fatigue and provider burnout. 

Absolutely no creative ability is required--only an open heart and mind.

Afterglow

Participants leave the training feeling relaxed, inspired and connected to a deeper place of peace from which to manage life's challenges, including the inevitable stresses of care giving.  They will return to their professional lives feeling refreshed and equipped with a set of tools uniquely designed to help veterans access and express painful feelings.  Because the participants themselves have gone through the Art of Healing Loss process they will have received the support to remain a compassionate, effective presence as their clients come to terms with trauma and loss.

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Underwritten by a grant from the Society for Arts in Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson, the Art of Healing Loss will be held on October 8 and 9 2009 at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee VT. A fee of $125 covers the training, the Art of Healing Loss Manual, a continental breakfast and a catered lunch each day.