I was delighted to have the opportunity to promote Learning Grief in an interview for 98.7 in State College.
Listen here.
launched! Learning Grief is a free online resource that helps adults help kids and teens navigate the big feelings that come with loss.
Learning Grief is produced by WPSU and is made possible with funding provided by the Imagine Learning Foundation. It’s a sister-initiative to Speaking Grief.
I ended my time in Hong Kong by giving a seminar titled “Get Grief Out There: Leveraging Social Media to Enhance Awareness, Education, and Impact.” It was hosted by the The Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance, which is part of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong.
I delivered a public talk titled “Speaking Grief: How to Normalize, Navigate, and Support Loss” to an audience at the University of Hong Kong. The talk was translated into Cantonese and followed by a Q&A. It was hosted by the Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance. JCBeCare is part of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong.
I had the honor of delivering the keynote at the JCBeCare and Support Alliance Symposium on the theme, “Towards a Compassionate Community: Call for Grief Literacy in Hong Kong.” My talk was titled Speaking Grief: Enhancing Grief Literacy Through Conversations About Loss.
It was an inspiring and moving event and it has been fascinating learning about the JCBeCare team’s work and research in this area.
The Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance is part of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. I had a lovely celebratory dinner with some of the team members to commemorate this first annual symposium.
Three years ago, Kelsey Kradel sold everything she owned, ditched her job in the corporate world, and packed her whole life into her self-converted 2008 Dodge Sprinter van, setting off across the country to start a new life and adventure. Kelsey settled into the resort town of Big Sky, Montana where she now lives, works, and plays in the mountains with her dog, Lola. Kelsey is an avid mountain biker (she guides and coaches in the summer, skier, and freelance portrait photographer. With a restless spirit and the privilege of working seasonally, Kelsey travels in her van during the off-season twice a year, taking her portrait work on the road.
In this episode of The Apologies Podcast, Kelsey talks with me about what life has looked like since she headed out west with Lola and Big Bertha.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zXKBSWqbe3cweD7hxDZqW?si=D-F02t5KR9GJZstjxg8_TQ.
Meghan Riordan Jarvis is a psychotherapist, two-time Tedx Speaker, and host of the podcast Grief is my Side Hustle. She’s also the author of the memoir, End of the Hour. In the book, Meghan, a trauma therapist, shares her own experience with PTSD after her mother’s sudden death, just two years after her father died from cancer. Ultimately, Meghan checked herself into the same in-patient facility where she sends her most difficult cases, and reemerged inspired to teach and speak in public platforms about the importance of creating a more grief informed culture. Founder of MRJ Consulting, her team consults regularly with fortune 500 companies to address the many ways grief impacts the workplace.
In this episode of The Apologies Podcast, Meghan talks with me about her new book End of the Hour: A Therapist’s Memoir and shares what happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized.
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