Journey through Grief Conference
Healthy Coping Strategies In Your Journey Through Grief
REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE IS NOW CLOSED
Full Day Conference with keynote speaker C. Elizabeth Dougherty
November 14, 2023 | 8:30am - 4pm
Goods & Co. Market Art Gallery
251 Red River Rd, Thunder Bay, ON
- Registration Fee $60/person
Registration includes all sessions, a registration gift, coffee/tea service in the morning, and lunch.
A full day grief conference allowing participants to gain healthy coping strategies from local experts in the field.
Workshop Sessions include:
- Keynote by C. Elizabeth Dougherty - Demystifying Grief & Honouring Loss: Exploring Healing While Caring For Others And Ourselves
- Facilitated sessions by local experts - scroll down for details
Local practitioners in alternative therapies will be available in our vendors market.
Registration is required.
This conference would not be possible without the generous support of:
Palliative Carelink
NorWest Community Health Centres
Thunder Bay Community Foundation
CERAH
Workshop Sessions
Keynote Speaker: C. Elizabeth Dougherty
Joining us virtually is keynote speaker Elizabeth Dougherty talking about Demystifying Grief & Honouring Loss: Exploring Healing While Caring For Others And Ourselves.
Elizabeth is a social worker in Burlington ON with extensive experience supporting children, youth and adults facing complex illness, uncertainty and grief.
Concurrent Morning Sessions
Attendees will have the choice of attending one of these morning sessions. The session will be 90 minutes in length.
Traumatic Loss
Navigating Grief
Cultural Perspectives on Grief
Concurrent Afternoon Sessions
Attendees will have the choice of attending two of these afternoon sessions. Each session will be approximately 1 hour.
Healing through Storytelling
Self Compassion & Mindfulness
Art Based Therapy - Mushkiki Boxes
Agenda
- 8:30 - 9:00 - Registration, coffee, vendors
- 9:00 - 10:15 - Opening Remarks & Ceremony
Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Doughtery - 10:30 - 11:00 - Break with Vendors
- 11:00 - 12:30 - Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
- Traumatic Loss with Diana Prairie
- Navigating Grief with Kathy Kortes-Miller
- Cultural Perspectives on Grief with Beatrice Twance-Hynes
- 12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch / Visit the Vendors / View Personal Lens on Grief Exhibition
- 1:30 - 2:30 - Tools in the Grief Toolkit Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
- Healing through Storytelling with Claudia Otto
- Self Compassion & Mindfulness with Monique Mercier
- Art Bared Therapy - Mushkiki Boxes with Helen Young-Brizard
- 2:30 - 3:30 - Tools in the Grief Toolkit Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
- Healing through Storytelling with Claudia Otto
- Self Compassion & Mindfulness with Monique Mercier
- Art Bared Therapy - Mushkiki Boxes with Helen Young-Brizard
- 3:30 - 4:00 - Culminating Activity
Meditation and Closing Remarks
Personal Lens on Grief Art Exhibition
November 10 - 30, 2023
In conjunction with the Journey Through Grief Conference, an art exhibition will be held during the month of November. A Personal Lens on Grief is an innovative way to reflect and share your grief journey through using pictures. By sharing our grief experiences and feelings through pictures, we can encourage discussion, collaborate for change and build a community of support.
Alternative Therapy Vendors
We are looking for local practitioners in the following areas to be part of our vendors market:
- Reiki
- Relflexology
- Massage therapy
- Art therapy
- Movement / Dance
- Yoga
- Aromatherapy
- Therapeutic Touch
- Meditation
- Naturopathic Medicine
- Counselling Clinics
Cost of Table: $100, includes lunch for 1 person
