Child Grief Support Education
Expand your capacity to help children through grief by processing your unresolved loss and learning a professional approach.
Who is Child Grief Support Education for…
- Are you a healthcare or teaching professional?
- Do you work with children and families?
- Will you provide support when they experience grief?
If this sounds like you…
This education with take you from feeling insecure or overwhelmed when helping others through grief to being present and compassionate as you support them with confidence.
Apply for Child Grief Support Education
Complete and submit the registration form.
Suitable applicants will be invited for an interview with Creative Accompaniment Director – Iván Gómez García
Download our free exercise to help you find peace in the middle of the storm
• Exercise: Meditation on grief and peace
• Iván Gómez García guides you to find moments of peace within the storm of grief.
• Guided audio meditation download included.
Why do you want to take this education?
• Do you have trouble helping the children you work with when they are going through loss?
• Do you feel you need more training to fully support children going through a crisis?
• Do your own painful experiences of grief prevent you from helping others deal with theirs?
How will this education help you?
Be seen as an expert at helping children through crisis
- Learn tools to effectively and lovingly help children showing emotional symptoms of grief
- Expand your self knowledge, emotional capacity and expertise for caring
- Advance your skills as you come back to work
Help adolescents you work with who are suffering from loss
- Understand how grief impacts adolescents and their behaviour.
- Get better at helping young people when talking about Grief.
Increase your confidence to talk about difficult situations in an effective way
- Process and come to terms with your own painful experiences of grief.
- Feel more comfortable talking about grief on your own or with others.
- Understand and process emotional trauma caused by your own losses.
Apply for Child Grief Support Education
Complete and submit the registration form. Suitable applicants will be invited for an interview with Creative Accompaniment Director – Iván Gómez García
Iván Goméz García
I am a Gestalt Therapist and Psychologist specialising in grief therapy for children, adolescents and adults and therapeutic group work.
Since 2002 I have developed clinical and teaching work in hospitals, hospices, foundations and NGOs in Spain, Poland, Slovakia, England, Hungary, Romania, Argentina, Costa Rica and Czech Republic.
I know that talking about loss with others is a very difficult subject to handle in an effective and positive way. Relating to our own negative experiences of loss is even more difficult and we often ignore it and avoid it. It is also an amazing opportunity to understand how we deeply feel and find new strengths within ourselves.
Grief is universal and so it is natural for us to empathise deeply with other suffering a crisis. We can learn how to expand our emotional capacity to help children through crisis with less fear and insecurity.
What steps can you take next to learn with us?
- Download PDF Understanding the Emotional Impact of Grief & Loss
- Listen, Read and process your own experiences of the meditation
- Apply for the course and book an interview with Ivan
- Sign Up an for a 5 month journey of deepening self understanding and capacity to support others through loss
About The Child Grief Support Education
This education is designed to help all who work with children feel prepared to support them and their families through difficult times. The courses will help you to feel greater emotional resilience. Completing the entire education will empower you to accompany the children and families you work with through their grief and loss more effectively. You’ll be able to help more families in the long run whilst maintaining your energy and enthusiasm.
The Child Grief Support Education helps you to positively impacts all the people involved in these journeys through grief. This impact has been so significant for me personally that I felt compelled to bring the value of this process to a broader public audience.
After finishing this education, the families you work with will be amazed and grateful that their children can re-establish the other parts of their developmental path that were interrupted during the experience of loss. The parents will also gain more capacity to understand the state of mind and needs of their children.
It is likely that the families and parents you help will be more likely to ask for and engage in further consultation to support a fuller recovery.
I look forward to learning and growing together with you..
Iván Gómez García
Director Creative Accompaniment
Psychologist and Gestalt Therapist
Apply for Child Grief Support Education
Complete and submit the registration form.
Suitable applicants will be invited for an interview with Creative Accompaniment Director – Iván Gómez García
Child Grief Support Education
Comprised of 5 one month long courses
• Course 1 Healing Your Own Grief
• Course 2 Talking To Families in Crisis
• Course 3 Guiding Children Through Grief
• Course 4 Relating to Adolescent Grief
• Course 5 Saying Goodbye with Authenticity
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Each Course features
• 2 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
You will also be part of the course support group so you can shared about your journey and learning with your cohort
You will have permanent access to the course material
Child Grief Support Education
Comprised of 5 one month long courses
• Course 1 Healing Your Own Grief
• Course 2 Talking To Families in Crisis
• Course 3 Guiding Children Through Grief
• Course 4 Relating to Adolescent Grief
• Course 5 Saying Goodbye with Authenticity
Each Course features
• 2 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
You will also be part of the course support group so you can shared about your journey and learning with your cohort
You will have permanent access to the course material
Course 1 – Healing Your Own Grief
Learn how to compassionately honour the grief and loss in your own life so you can strengthen your capacity to accompany children and families after loss.
Includes
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
Bonus #1
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
Starting March 2024
Duration: 1 Month
What you learn in the Healing Your Own Grief Course:
Develop a personal definition of Grief and how it affects you
Identify signs of grief in your body
Discover how to release tension and heal the impact of grief
Understand the losses you have gone through
Increase your empathy while talking to bereaved children and families
Appreciate the therapeutic power of silence
Use practical tips for talking with children and adolescents about loss and death
Deepen your capacity to help others and ask for help yourself
Connect with the positive presence of gratefulness in your life
Do a breathing exercise to help reduce feelings of insecurity, fear and anxiety
Course 2 – Talking to Families in Crisis
Develop a deeper understanding and trust for yourself so you can interact with an authenticity that helps the families you work with feel the relief of being compassionately understood.
Includes
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
Bonus #2
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
Starting April 2024
Duration: 1 Month
What you learn in the Talking to Families in Crisis Course:
Discover the benefits of being aware
Come to know the model of Creative Accompaniment
Use and create family trees
Learn to ask questions that increase identification among family members
Transform characteristics of your family of origin into communication tools
Guidelines to conduct a first family meeting
Increase authenticity by gaining awareness on your social masks
Learn how to guide parents to talk about grief and death with their children
Develop kindness and self-compassion
Practice a breathing exercise to express and soothe sadness
Course 3 – Guiding Children Through Grief
Re-connect with your inner child to better understand how your professional approach can be combined with new therapeutic tools to support children through grief.
Includes
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
Bonus #3
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
Starting May 2024
Duration: 1 Month
What you learn in the Guiding Children Through Grief Course
Connect with your inner child’s needs
Understand the emotions children experience during grief
Discover how to create a therapeutic bond by using ‘play’ as a healing tool
Learn practical exercises that you can do with children
How to work with children experiencing anger
A practical exercise for using clay with kids
Using fairytales to help children through loss
Techniques and tools to increase self-esteem
Practical tips to set up therapeutic groups for children
A breathing exercise to reduce the feeling of guilt
Course 4 – Relating to Adolescent Grief
Feel and accept the darker side of yourself so that you can relate and support adolescents experiencing the same turbulence when you support them through grief.
Includes
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
Bonus #4
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
Starting June 2024
Duration: 1 Month
What you learn in the Relating to Adolescent Grief Course
Getting to know the characteristics of adolescence
Meditation exercise to understand the shadow parts of your personality
Understand how adults respond to adolescent loss
Learn how to include parents in the adolescents conselling
Tips for direct communication with teenagers
Handling important themes for adolescents
Tools and practical advice to run a therapeutic group session
Meditation practice to increase self-esteem in moments of crisis
Guidelines on how to use the book ‘The Wind and Colours’
Practice a breathing exercise to reduce anger
Course 5 – Saying Goodbye with Authenticity
Integrate your new perspective and knowledge into a unique way to close situations and say goodbye that brings presence and authenticity to every moment and interaction of your life.
Includes
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• 2 x Guided Exercises and Meditations
• 1-2 hours of video in each course
Bonus #5
• 1 x 90 min Live group sessions with Ivan
• Reading List
• Supporting Quotes
• Suggested Exercises and Reflections
Starting July 2024
Duration: 1 Month
What you learn in the Saying Goodbye with Authenticity Course
Find your unique way of saying goodbye
How to accompany those at the end of life
Discover psychodramatic techniques that lead to authenticity
Increase your capacity to trust
Ways to experience wisdom during adulthood
Rituals to close, say goodbye and welcome the new
A meditation practice to resolve unfinished businesses
How to understanding loss as a process of growth
Accepting death as part of our life journey
A breathing exercise to practice feeling and expressing love
Testimonials from our students
“It has been an intense and enriching experience. I managed to enter feared areas of myself, clearing doubts and finding new ways to make my life more pleasant and meaningful. I got rid of years of living in an emotional cage, and I felt secure to open to the unknown.”
Alexia
Kind of togetherness – accepting and not judging is much needed when we grieve. Let’s search together in the course a way to connect authentically with the grieving child. Know your pain…Work with what you feel … Be open, be there…To help a grieving person means also to understand him through awareness of my inner self. Only when we know about our weaknesses we are strong. Only when we know where we cannot help, we can be helpful.
Child Grief Support Education Prices:
Full Education Pack
Includes:
5 courses
Healing Your Own Grief
Talking To Families in Crisis
Guiding Children Through Grief
Relating to Adolescent Grief
Saying Goodbye with Authenticity
Bonus 1 + Bonus 2 + Bonus 3 + Bonus 4 + Bonus 5
Full Price: 1000 €
Special Launch Price 500 € *Payment in installments
Individual Course Prices
Full price 250 €
Special Launch Price 175 €
Why we created Child Grief Support Education
When I was working in a hospice with children who had terminal illnesses, the systems or networks set up to support the families of these children through grief after their loss were limited to in the hospice. I realised that they desperately needed more support when they were back home, re-establishing their lives within the community.
When our staff tried to help, they often didn’t have the emotional capacity or training to ensure their goodwill and energy was as effective as possible. If they managed to do a fantastic job helping one family, they found the process emotionally draining. It was challenging to maintain these standards.
We realised that our staff needed solid training to find an emotional balance that equipped them to deal with the intense demands of support that these families needed after their losses.
So I created this training to help all who work with children feel prepared to support them and their families through such difficult times. As a result, our staff felt more emotionally resilient. It empowered them to accompany the children and families through their grief and loss more effectively. They were also able to help more families over the long run whilst maintaining their enthusiasm.
Families we help in this way are amazed and grateful that their children can re-establish the other parts of their developmental path that were interrupted during the loss. The parents also gain more capacity to understand the state of mind and needs of their children.
The families and parents are more likely to ask for and engage in further consultation to support a fuller recovery. Generally, this training positively impacted all the people involved in these journeys through grief so immensely that I felt compelled to bring the value of this process to a broader public audience.