As the losses mount with the ongoing assaults of the Covid19 pandemic, people are feeling a range of emotions. Confusion, fear, anger and sadness are strong as is grief. Grief usually takes shared public forms; during the pandemic, there are constraints.

In this webinar, we present materials about grief in general and grief in the particular circumstances of the pandemic. Throughout the webinar we create ways for participants to share their experience so that the troubling isolation of this time can be softened. We need to balance despair with hope and hope is something best done with others. In this webinar, for 90 minutes, we become your community.

Dr. Weingarten founded and directed The Witnessing Project, from 2000 to 2019, a nonprofit organization that consulted to individuals, families, and communities locally, nationally, and internationally to transform passive witnessing of violence and violation into effective action. She was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry from 1981-2017 and a faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge where she founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma and Resilience.   

She has published six books and over 100 articles and essays.  Her book, Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day- How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal won the 2004 Nautilus Award for Social Change.  In 2002 she was awarded the highest honor of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), the award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Theory and Practice.

At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will:
•    Describe the nature of grief/loss generally. 
•    Describe grief in the time of COVID-19. 
•    Understand reactions to grief or loss.  
•    Identify personal and family losses that may happen during the pandemic.  
•    Understand how children react to loss and strategies for talking to them
      about it. 
•    Identify resources to manage grief. 
 

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