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$ Constructing the Bridge, Pt. 2: The Path to Hope and Healing After Loss (BeADisciple.com)
October 31, 2022 All day
This course builds on Constructing the Bridge, Pt. 1: Loss and the Mourning After. You must complete that course before participating in this one.
When a member of your immediate family dies, you experience a painful transition from your familiar world. You are plunged into a new life that you don’t like. This death can also end or threaten your plans for the future. The loss of any family member throws the entire family into crisis. Before the construction of new family roles can begin, each person needs time and space to absorb the loss in his or her own way. All members must maintain the ability to disengage from the unit when necessary, but disengagement can be carried to far.
Death comes in many forms, bringing with it varying degrees of pain, sorrow and grief. When it comes, it disrupts your life story. It is a time when you are vulnerable in several areas. When a loved one dies, you focus on what you lose. You rarely focus on what you do not lose. You feel the loss of a loved one’s presence of this person in the ongoing story of your life.
You haven’t lost the years you lived with him or her, you have the past. You can continue to love and cherish the story of an earthly life that is now over. As you relive and retell the stories again and again, you’ll discover something new each time. Events in your life will remind you of the person and his or her continuing importance to you. Your life was shaped by who this person was; who he or she was can move you and strengthen your values and make a difference in your world.
This course will help lead you through reflections and rituals that will help you cope with the death of a family member. You should have already completed Part 1 of this course before enrolling in this one, because the two courses build upon each other.
Students are required to have a copy of Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member, by H. Norman Wright, for this course.
This course is eligible for 1.0 CEU.
$60
