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Exploring Trauma & Sudden Death

A 5-week course for EOL professionals wondering about how to be with intense emotions surrounding various forms of traumatic and intense grief.
  • 5 LIVE Classes

    Online via Zoom
  • Certificate of Completion

    Upon Meeting Requirements
  • Online Curriculum

    Always at your fingertips
  • Personalized Care

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This course will delve into various intense and complex topics, including the differences between expected death and sudden death grief, the impact of suicide on families, sexual assault trauma, and domestic violence. It will also cover collective trauma, PTSD, cultural trauma, and the importance of self-care.

While there will be educational elements, the primary aim is to process these experiences together to better prepare for handling intense emotions. 

Participants will explore their own grief, history, trauma awareness, biases, and self-care rituals.

What is the goal?

The goal is to create a supportive space for open dialogue and collective processing, addressing questions, hesitations, and concerns about meeting people in these vulnerable states.
  It is about how you come beside and hold others  

  About this course

"Grief shared is grief diminished." — Rabbi Grollman

This course will be experiential and supportive in nurturing ourselves while we explore our desires to hold space for intense grief and traumatic death - spending five weeks working through topics around sudden death, suicide, abuse, and collective grief. 
A trauma awareness offering for those wishing to be better prepared for handling intense emotions.

Melissa Seligman

Facilitator

Before becoming an Army wife, mother, and caregiver, Melissa began her career as a teacher with a BA in English and a Master’s in Education. Melissa’s journey through military life and personal experiences with grief led her to dedicate her self to understanding and supporting trauma, tragic death, and mental health needs within the military community. Now, as a Sacred Passage Doula, Conscious Dying Educator, and advocate, she focuses on normalizing grief and building a supportive community around the sacred experience of death.