Many of us are experiencing confusion, fear, anger, and sadness as losses mount with the ongoing pandemic. Grief has also been a dominant emotion.  During the pandemic, there have been constraints on public, shared expressions of grief. In this online seminar, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, presents materials about grief generally and grief in the circumstances of the pandemic. Discussion points will include the particular challenges of grief following estrangement or ambiguous loss. What are some ways to support others – clients, friends, colleagues, family members – without becoming overburdened? There is a need to balance despair with hope, and hope is something best done with others.

You can view the recording of the previous webinar, "Helping Children Cope During Times of Uncertainty" on our website, here.

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., directs the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program for the Migrants Clinician Network. The goal of W2W is to help the helpers, primarily serving health care workers who work with historically marginalized communities. She worked at Harvard Medical School (1981-2017) where she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology and at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1982-2009). She founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma and Resilience at the Family Institute of Cambridge.  Internationally, she has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, where she was a Fulbright Specialist.  Dr. Weingarten’s work focuses on developing and disseminating a witnessing model.  She has written or edited six books and over 100 articles, chapters, and essays. Her work on reasonable hope has been widely cited. 

We are pleased to offer 1.5 hours of CNE or CME* credit
at no cost to participants.

 
CNE Credit: Migrant Clinicians Network is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. To receive continuing nursing education certificate, participants must submit the evaluation for each session.

CME Credit: An application for accreditation has been submitted to AAFP. Once approved, only participants who submit the evaluation for each session will receive their continuing medical education certificates.