As a couple separates and a marriage is dissolved, all the parties involved are bound to experience multiple losses, ranging from practical and tangible losses like financial stability and matrimonial house, to implicit and ambiguous losses like sense of self and relational bonds. In the process of transition, different grief reactions and repercussions may emerge, as each party has to relearn about life and relationship, as well as re-establish one’s self-concept and social world. This training will invite you to look at separation and divorce and other forms of relationship dissolution from a grief and loss and meaning reconstruction perspective. This will also equip you to use meaning oriented intervention tools to facilitate one’s transition and adaptation in the aftermath.
All counsellors, social workers, psychologists, teachers and principals, pastoral staff, and people involved in the helping profession.
2 days (9am - 5pm)
14 hours
· An assumptive world shattered by separation and divorce
· A conversation frame to elicit intangible, ambiguous and/or disenfranchised loss in separation and divorce
· Use of Restorative Retelling to facilitate processing and reintegration of the relational loss
· Application of The Relationship Tree to help clients address relational ambivalence and reconstruct their identity and life narratives
· Use of creative rituals to signify closure, transition and/or new beginning
· A “Holding Frame” for children through parental separation and divorce
Modular Certificate of Completion awarded by the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (PI), Portland, OR, United States, and earn Credits for 2 Orientation Modules and 3 Techniques Modules toward Certification in Family-Focused Grief Therapy or Certification in Grief Therapy for Non-Death Losses
· To examine the impacts of separation and divorce using a tripartite model of meaning reconstruction
· To describe the myriad of loss and grief in the process of separation and divorce
· To apply meaning reconstruction perspectives in facilitating post-separation / divorce adaptation
Carolyn Ng, PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition, for training, supervision and therapy in Singapore, while also serving as an Associate Director of the Portland Institute. Previously she served as Principal Counsellor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specialising in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling. She is a registered counsellor, master clinical member and approved supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA, as well as a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, Australia. She is a trained end-of-life doula and advanced care planning facilitator. She is also trained in the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, USA, community crisis response by the National Organisation for Victim Assistance (NOVA), USA, as well as Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks, Canada. Her recent writing concerns meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction with bereaved families, with an emphasis on conversational approaches for fostering new meaning and action.
NCSS member and MSF-funded Social Service Agencies are able to apply for PCG Funding (pending outcome on PCG pre-approved funding in Mar 2024)
| Course Fee Payable | ||
|---|---|---|
| Original Fee | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| Course Fee | $775.00 | $844.75 |
| Corporate Pricing (Fee payable to Training Provider) | ||
| Non-SME | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| NCSS PCG 45% funding (SC/PRs) | $426.25 | $464.61 |
| SME | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| NCSS PCG 45% funding (SC/PRs) | $426.25 | $464.61 |
Early Bird Rate (before GST): S$700 (Register and pay by 28 Mar 2024)
Please note that prices are subject to change.