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SUMMARY:ILCA Workshop: Grief Intervention for Situational Loss Over the Life Course
DESCRIPTION:AN ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR HEALTHCARE & OTHER PROFESSIONALS \nWhen: Tuesday\, October 14 to Monday\, November 10\, 2025 (4 weeks) ONLINE weekly at your discretion\nCost:    $240 (Students $120) Registration Deadline: Tuesday\, October 7\, 2025\nThis workshop will be offered only if there is sufficient enrolment. \nGrief is not just about death. Grief is experienced in response to many life-altering situations that involve loss such as job layoff\, divorce\, family caregiving\, health decline and other age-related challenges. In this 4-week online workshop\, you will gain insight into providing compassionate practice from a loss perspective. You will learn ways to process grief including hearing from the voices of grief pioneers who led the way. Born out of their teachings\, you will learn to apply an innovative coping framework specifically developed with methods to address various situations of adversity involving loss. \nWeek 1 – Losses that Impact \n\nDefining situational loss.\nAcknowledging various types of situational loss.\nExploring grief in different loss contexts.\nDescribing the 3-A Coping Framework as a tool to process the situation loss(es).\n\nWeek 2 – Grief after Loss \n\nIdentifying determinants that influence expression of reaction to loss.\nApplying death related grief models to nondeath related situations\nUnlocking the 4th “A” to remove barriers in order to move forward from loss.\nAcknowledging habitual behaviors related to coping with loss.\n\nWeek 3 – Approach for Addressing Losses \n\nAssessing from a loss perspective\nAssisting in providing 3 elements of a coping regimen to follow to enhance resiliency\nAssisting in using conventional grief methods to readjust and transform from situational loss\nAssisting in exploring a variety of methods to facilitate grief processing\n\nWeek 4 – Burnout as an Impacting Loss\, Nurturing Yourself \n\nAcknowledging workplace loss/grief as a professional\nAcknowledging compassion in practice\nAssessing compassion fatigue and burnout\nAssisting through self-nurturing\n\nInstructor Bio: Eleanor Silverberg is a social worker\, grief expert and 3-A coping strategist® in private practice. Using a therapeutic approach\, she provides empowering coping tools so you can monitor yourself with awareness. She developed the unique 3-A Coping Framework as a navigating aid for a variety of situational loss circumstances such as health decline\, family illness\, death\, job loss\, financial loss\, aging\, divorce. She devised the framework in 2007 while doing community outreach social work in dementia care. Her specialty is in assisting caregivers of family members living with dementia or other ongoing serious condition as demonstrated in her books “Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity” and “Mindfulness Exercises for Dementia”.  Eleanor holds a Master of Social Work\, BA in Psychology\, Certificate in Bereavement Education\, training in Mindfulness\, Internal Family Systems\, as well as over 20 years of Independent Grief Study. \nVisit the ILCA workshop website for registration information. 
URL:https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/event/ilca-online-workshop-grief-intervention-for-situational-loss-over-the-life-course/
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SUMMARY:ILCA Workshop: Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Conversations with Older Adults
DESCRIPTION:AN ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR HEALTHCARE & OTHER PROFESSIONALS \nWhen: Monday\, November 3 – Sunday\, November 30\, 2025\nCost: $240 (Students $120); Sufficient Enrolment Decision Deadline: Mon October 27\, 2025\nThis workshop will be offered only if there is sufficient enrolment. \nAdvance Care Planning (ACP) and Goals of Care (GOC) conversations in health care can be some of the most difficult\, but also the most meaningful and rewarding tasks… Thorough discussions about the values\, hopes\, wishes\, and goals of patients and their families can be challenging to navigate in our fast paced and complex health system. This workshop will provide an overview on the evidence surrounding advance care planning and goals of care conversations with older adults. There will be a focus on practical tools\, case examples\, interprofessional perspectives\, as well as the role of the social determinants of health in these conversations. \nWEEK 1: What are Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Conversations? \n\nDefine ACP and GOC- Why do they matter so much?\nPerson Centred vs. Treatment Centred GOC Conversations\nReview relevant legislation that impacts these conversations\nUnderstand the role of shared decision making in ACP and GOC conversations\n\nWEEK 2: Interprofessional Perspectives \n\nThe role of the health care team in ACP and GOC conversations\nWho should be present for these conversations and when should they occur?\nDifferences in settings (Hospital\, Community\, Retirement Homes\, Long-Term Care)\nManaging multiple stakeholders (patients\, families\, health care team members)\nCase examples\n\nWEEK 3:  Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care tools \n\nReview of evidence-based tools and interventions for ACP/GOC Conversations for older adults\nHow to adapt tools for your setting.\nCase Examples\n\nWEEK 4: The Role of the Social Determinants of Health and ACP/GOC \n\nWhy do the social determinants of health impact ACP and GOC conversations?\nReview the importance of culture and religion as it impacts ACP and GOC\nAdaptions of tools to promote inclusivity in these conversations\nWho is left out of these important conversations?\nCase examples\n\nInstructors: Bailey Hollister (They/Them)\, MSW\, RSW \nBailey Hollister\, MSW\, RSW is a PhD Candidate in the Aging and Health program at Queen’s University. They have a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto\, with a specialization in gerontology. Bailey has worked in the past at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre and currently works at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as a social worker on a transitional care unit. \nVisit the ILCA workshop website for registration information. 
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