“MINDFULNESS, GRIEF & HEALING: CULTIVATING MEANING IN THE MIDST
OF LOSS & EVERYDAY CHANGE”
Saturday, April 17 | 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Room# Educ. 1117 | BBS Approved \ 4 CEHs
XEDU 927A - CLASS # 2103-19049

There are so many types of losses and transitions in the human experience -- death, separation from family and friends, divorce, broken dreams and failing health, as well as those losses, transitions and changes that are known only in the privacy of your heart. This workshop will focus on these often painful but powerfully transformative periods of life. Held in mindful awareness and acceptance, aspects of loss can yield gifts of growth and deep healing. Methods: By exploring personal grief you'll learn to identify and use the often hidden, positive aspects within grief, loss and sadness to deepen your emotional and spiritual development in daily life. Experiential exercises, guided meditations, metaphor, cross-cultural ritual, and art-process will also be used. This also a Public Workshop - Anyone is welcome to attend.

Presenter:JULIE BRAMS-PRUDEAUX, LMFT is a licensed therapist with a private practice in Encino and Sherman Oaks and a certified bereavement counselor. Over the past nine years she has worked both individually and in groups with people facing loss and has been a Faculty Member of Systems Workshops, evolving this experiential workshop for 7 years. She created and facilitated grief support groups and healing circles around the issue of death and dying at WeSPARK in Studio City, and has published her views on the grief process. Her current project is a series of mindfulness-oriented workshops called: "Opening the Gift of Loss."  www.JulieBrams.com
 
Presenter: JEROME J. FRONT, MA, MFT is in private practice in Stu­dio City. He is an experienced leader of innovative training workshops and retreats, and teaches meditation. He is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Graduate School of Clinical Psychology at Pepper­dine University, and is also a consultant to major corporations on using meditative perspectives for wellness. Jerome leads a CEU Weekend Retreat each May at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur called “Mindfulness in Deep Relationship: A Retreat on the Sources of Nourishment.” More mindfulness information at: www.JeromeFront.com.

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