Making Meaning in the Era of Loss: Grieving Death and Our Way of Life During the Pandemic
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<h1 style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:26px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Making Meaning in the Era of Loss</span></span></strong></h1> <h1 style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:26px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%">Grieving Death and Our Way of Life During the Pandemic</span></span></span></span></strong></h1> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">People try to live lives that make sense and matter to them. The death of a loved one or dramatic changes to support networks, financial resources, and daily routines, such as those caused by the pandemic, can make clients question who they are, the nature of their world, their expectations for the future, and what their lives are about. Such sweeping </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">violations of core beliefs leave clients disoriented in an unfamiliar world, <span style="color:black">struggling to find ways of living meaningfully. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This professional conference will focus on the meaning making model of therapy, identifying its evidence-base in research as well as its theoretical roots in narrative, cognitive, constructivist, and existential theories of psychotherapy. The conference will describe specific challenges faced by clients as they attempt to make meaning; it will also provide examples of what it can sound like when clients succeed in making meaning. Specific therapy techniques and interventions will be offered as guides for supporting clients in making meaning of death and non-death loss, with a particular focus on the pandemic. The conference will highlight how the mental health burden of the pandemic lies in the ongoing, existential, and anticipatory grief it causes. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice therapy techniques and interventions in small groups. Finally, the conference will conclude with a panel discussion of clinical experts focusing on the integration of the expressive arts and motivational interviewing into the meaning making model.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">2021 VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTS</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">DR. EVGENIA (JANE) MILMAN</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Making Meaning in the Era of Loss: </span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Grieving Death and Our Way of Life During the Pandemic</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Friday, February 19 & Saturday, February 20</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">10:00 am – 1:00 pm</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">6 CEU hours for LMFT, LPC, LMSW, and LCSW</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"><strong style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background-attachment:initial; background-clip:initial; background-image:initial; background-origin:initial; background-position:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-size:initial"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Learning Objectives:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Describe how grief of death and non-death loss during the pandemic can become a struggle to find ways of living meaningfully </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Discuss challenges faced by clients as they attempt to make meaning</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Provide examples of what it can sound like when clients make meaning</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Identify exercises mental health professionals can use to support meaning making with their clients</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Explain how the expressive arts and motivational interviewing can be integrated into the meaning making model of therapy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">About the Speaker:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:#212121">Dr. Evgenia (Jane) Milman specializes in supporting adults and couples as they find ways of living meaningfully through challenging life experiences, particularly grief, trauma, and other major transitions. Dr. Milman teaches at St. Edward’s University, where she conducts research examining how making meaning influences mental health. Most recently, she published research and book chapters highlighting the role of meaning making during the pandemic.</span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:#212121"> Dr. Milman is developing the Handbook of Grief Therapies for Sage Publications. She has published grief research and grief therapy techniques, authoring chapters for the Hospice Foundation of America, Routledge’s series Techniques of Grief Therapy, and many others. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:#212121">Dr. Milman is faculty at the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition and adjunct assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. She develops online grief support resources for the Canadian Virtual Hospice, </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:#212121">serves on the advisory board for TAPS, and chairs the Distance and Online Education committee for ADEC. In Texas, </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span style="color:#212121">Dr. Milman practices psychology as a Provisionally Licensed Psychologist trainee under the supervision of Dr. David Zuniga.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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