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Key Information

Interactive Webinar with psycho-education, sharing stories, expressive arts combined with comprehensive online classroom

14, 21, 28 April and 5 May Tuesday evenings x 4 @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm QLD/NSW/VIC time

$345 full price, $295 GST incl (Earlybird)

Course Summary

CHCCCS017: Provide Loss and Grief Support

A rich program on navigating the wilderness of sorrow, loss and grief, the many faces of grief, the numerous ways we grieve throughout the world including rituals that honour the dead and what has been lost. Working with befriending grief and complex grief with expressive arts, mindfulness practices and more. Understanding how to be a Grief walker providing support and skills to help to meet the tasks in grieving.

Supporting the Grief walker to navigate our own grief, through self care rituals, supervision, and continuous improvement.

Course Content

A program to support Counsellors in navigating the wild landscape of loss and grief with its many faces, emotions, the impact it has on the brain and the body, families and community

Topics include:

1. The Wilderness of Grief including:

The tasks in grieving
Complex grief (when trauma gets mixed up with grief),
Befriending grief,
The neuroscience of grief on the brain and body
Cultural diversity in grieving

2. The Faces of Grief including Frances Weller’s 5 gates of grief plus many additions such as:

All that we love we will lose
The places that did not receive love
The sorrows of the world
What we expected by did not receive
Ancestral grief
Trauma – the neuroscience of grieving
Anticipatory grief
Disenfranchised grief
Models on grieving
Other grief

3. Walking with the Grieving includes guiding people through the journey of grief:

Rituals to honour that which has been lost
Creative and expressive ways of meeting grief
What to say and what to do when supporting others who have lost
Identifying clients at risk
Intergenerational trauma
Co-creating strategies and resources to grieve well
Informal and formal grief and bereavement support
Referral process
Organisational procedures and policies

4. Caring of the Grief Walkers means supporting those who are supporting those who are grieving whilst:

Avoiding Vicarious trauma
Minimising the risks to self
Responding to the need for supervision
Debriefing procedures
Self care rituals and plans

5. The River of Grief continues to explore how grief touches us all personally as Counsellors:

The need for support
The need for continuous improvement
When grief resonants
Giving room for one’s own grief as a counsellor
and much more

Module 1: The Wilderness of Grief

The tasks in grieving
Complex grief (when trauma gets mixed up with grief),
Befriending grief,
The neuroscience of grief on the brain and body
Cultural diversity in grieving
Case Studies

Module 2: The Faces of Grief

All that we love we will lose
The places that did not receive love
The sorrows of the world
What we expected by did not receive
Ancestral grief
Trauma - The Grieving brain and
Anticipatory grief
Disenfranchised grief
Models on grieving
Other grief
Case Studies

Module 3: Walking with the Grieving

Rituals to honour that which has been lost
Creative and expressive ways of meeting grief
Art, movement, exercise and much more
What to say and what to do when supporting others who have lost
Identifying clients at risk
Intergenerational trauma
Case Studies

Module 4: Co-creating Resources to Grieve Well

Co-creating strategies and resources to grieve well
Informal and formal grief and bereavement support
Referral process
Organisational procedures and policies
Case Studies

Module 5: Caring for the Grief Walkers

Avoiding Vicarious trauma
Minimising the risks to self
Responding to the need for supervision
Debriefing procedures
Self care rituals and plans
Case Studies

Staff

Brenda Sutherland

Brenda Sutherland

B.Soc Sc (Psych) TAE, IICT, AHHCA

Brenda founded The Awakening Group P/L in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown from counselling, to counsellor training to offer online webinars and programs for organizations and businesses bringing teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.

Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 30 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia.

Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.

Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.

Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Further Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), as well as Pat Odgen; body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is a Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor.

Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques to return clients to a peaceful sense of self .

Furthermore Brenda is a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor having trained with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy.

You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, sexuality, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life.

Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available (also via Zoom online) to support you in moving into the freedom of being. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you.

Here’s what one client said:

“Thank you for today. I feel Amazing!!!”

Brenda has written for:

She has been quoted in:

and appeared on Channel 9’s Alternatives pilot program facilitating “Unmasking The Wild Woman” with guest Catriona Rowntree (Getaway presenter)
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Course details

Dates

14, 21, 28 April & 5 May 2026
Tuesdays x 4 @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm QLD/NSW/VIC time

Cost

$345 GST incl., full course cost
$295 earlybird price if paid before 10 April 2026

Venue

Online via Zoom Rooms Live Webinars

Learning Activities

Online quizzes, mock case studies, reflection activities, participation in live webinars and discussions on loss and grief

Accreditation

International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) PD points
Australian Holistic Healers and Counsellors Association: (AHHCA) PD points
Australian Counselling Association professional development credits (ACA) PD points
International Association of Therapists (IAOTH) – membership worldwide
This course is part of the Diploma in Holistic Counselling program

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