Course Description:

This course offers a space for training and processing for therapists who are involved in accompanying people dealing with traumatic and complex bereavement. During ten sessions, we will combine a little theoretical discussion with live clinical work, while creating a safe and supportive environment for shared thinking. We will use the participants' knowledge and experience, the feelings and experiences they have accumulated in order to observe together on complex work for understanding and holding. The first sessions will be dedicated to discussing the differences between normative grief and traumatic bereavement in order to mark the field of discourse and the context within which we will work. Participants will be invited to bring examples and experiences from their work. Later, we will focus on cases from the participants' clinical practice, while thinking together about the complex dynamics that arise in the treatment room in these situations, including questions of transference and countertransference. We will dedicate each session to a different topic related to grief processes and the movement we want to create in them. The course is intended for therapists with clinical experience who want to deepen their confidence in treating complex bereavement and receive peer guidance in a supportive and professional environment.

Course objectives:

1. Strengthening the ability of therapists to work with their patients who are experiencing traumatic and complex bereavement.

2. Creating a safe space where you can also talk about less "photogenic" experiences, about areas of ignorance, doubts, and fears that arise naturally in dealing with bereavement and loss.

3. Creating a supportive professional community that can expand and continue to create connections within it in the future.

About the lecturer:

Dr. Dana Mor

Target audience:

Specialist and intern psychologists, clinical social workers or social workers with a master's degree with experience in therapeutic work, expressive and creative therapists with a master's degree, psychiatrists, clinical criminologists and master's degree students in psychology - who treat patients who have experienced traumatic bereavement surrounding kidnappings, massacres, falling in battle and other traumatic events.

Course cost:

The price is subsidized thanks to a donation from an anonymous organization, with the aim of promoting the training of abduction-informed therapists.

And to expand knowledge and professional tools for dealing with the trauma of kidnapping and its clinical and social consequences.