The Grief Recovery Method® 2 Day Workshop

If you found this page there is a high probability that you, or someone you love, is suffering from a broken heart. Is it due to a death, divorce or another major loss? If so you might feel sad, distracted, or confused. You are not alone. The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop will give you the tools you need to heal your broken heart and feel complete again.

What is The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop?

This interactive workshop will be a safe place to examine what you’ve been taught about loss, to explore your beliefs about grief, and will guide you in completing a set of actions that will enable you to move forward in your life with hope. Once equipped with these tools, you will be able to work through other losses that you may have experienced in your past.

We all experience significant emotional loss. Anyone can benefit from The Grief Recovery Method.

Who is it for?

Anyone who suffers from grief no matter what the cause. There are over 40 loss experiences including death, divorce, moving, pet loss, change in financial status and loss of trust.

If you:

    1. Have experienced any of these losses
    2. Have a broken heart
    3. And want to feel better

This workshop is for you.

How do I know if I need it?

Although there are no stages or feelings that every single griever experiences there are some common symptoms of grief.

Do you relate to any of these?

    • Do you feel tired?
    • Do you feel emotionally drained?
    • Do you pretend to be happy?
    • Do you isolate?
    • Have your eating or sleeping patterns changed?
    • Do fond memories of your loved one turn painful?

If you answered yes to any of these you are probably experiencing unresolved grief.

Some additional things the 2-Day Personal Workshops has to offer:

  • The 2-Day Personal Workshops are scheduled either to be done ONLINE from the comfort of your own home or different locations around North America throughout the year. Unless the workshop is online or is being held in your community, travel, and overnight stays will be required.
  • This approach allows you to work with an Advanced Grief Recovery Method (GRM) Specialist, certified and trained by The Grief Recovery Institute, in the intensive 2-day group setting.
  • Only a very few, highly experienced and skilled Grief Recovery Method Specialists are selected to be specifically trained to offer 2-Day Personal Workshops.
  • Each daily session will generally begin at 9:30 AM and go until 6:30 PM, EST. There will be a group luncheon break, as well as periodic breaks as part of that daily schedule.
  • Your Advanced GRM Specialist will take you through each step of the Grief Recovery Method, thereby helping you to take effective action to deal with your specific personal loss.
  • While you may come into this program with a specific loss in mind, your Specialist will lead you through the process of looking at all of the emotional losses that have touched you throughout your life, so that you can be focused on the one that has impacted you to the greatest degree.
  • Even though you are working in a group setting, your personal work will be done with one other participant the entire weekend.
  • These groups include a commitment to total honestly and absolute confidentiality, so that you can comfortably share your feelings.
  • The Grief Recovery Method is a scientifically tested Evidence Based Program that provides grievers with a tried and true method that has been continuously refined and used time and time again over the last 40+ years, across multiple countries, and in multiple languages, to help them heal from loss(es).

What’s Next?

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What others are saying…

  • My name is Gene and I suffered from grief for four and one half years before I met Gwen and the help I needed from her. My wife went to heaven at the age of 55. We were together for 40 years, since we were 15 years old, never broke up once. I was devastated to say the least. Chest pains, mind going crazy every joint ached. I met Gwen in an elevator on my way to my yearly WTC physical . I was in the FDNY on Sept 11th. She told me she was on her way to her office where she is a grief specialist. I took her card and called later that day for an appointment. I thought I could handle my grief by myself but realized I needed help. She told me when we met that this wasn’t your usual grief counseling. That I would have homework and I would be done in 8 sessions. It was very hard but after 8 sessions I felt the best I had felt in 5 years! Gwen's method using The Grief Recovery Method works and I wish I had met her a lot sooner.

    Gene M.

  • What can I say about my experience through the grief recovery method with Gwen? When I made the decision to do it, I was not in the midst of any grief or crisis. I was stuck “a bit” in one area of my life and well, I leave no stones unturned. And I hold Gwen in very high regard. She is a trusted friend and mentor. Not in a million years did I expect the experience that occurred through this method and their guidance. I threw everything I had into it because that’s how I roll. Also, I wanted to know if this was another avenue that I could recommend to people. I will not lead where I will not go. I learned so so much. The process was quite emotional and a little painful. No pain no gain right? The results were not immediate. The support throughout was astounding, and I should have availed myself to more of it. This cancer crab ???? often suffers unnecessarily alone. I feel freer, I feel lighter, I feel clearer. I now know what’s normal and natural in regards to grief. I feel a full range of emotions with less fear and self judgement and I bonded with people in a meaningful way. I wanted to quit a few times... but my faith in Gwen and commitment to my group kept me going. The results I saw in others was even more astounding than what I myself experienced. Yes! I recommend this experience and in fact feel you owe it to yourself. Thank you Gwen.

    Kerry K

Why does nothing else I’ve tried work?

Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss. It’s not a pathological condition or a personality disorder, but society says there is something wrong with you if you aren’t happy all of the time.

141 of the most common things people hear following a loss are not helpful including “we know how you feel” and “it just takes time.”

No one can ever know exactly how you feel because no one had the relationship you had.

Time alone does not heal heartache. Many people come to us with broken hearts over deaths that happened over 20 years ago. It’s not time that heals, but what you do in that time.

What’s the solution?

The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop will show you how to identify past losses, find out what’s incomplete, and teach you how to get complete with those losses, so you can go on to lead a complete and happy life.

When can I start?

It is never too soon to heal your broken heart. Would you wait to get help if you broke your arm? Then why wait when you break your heart?

It’s in the time immediately following a loss that your memories of those relationships are the most vivid and accurate. Those memories help you discover what you need to get complete with the relationship.

FAQ’s

What is the purpose of the 2 Day Personal Workshop?

To help you grieve and complete your relationship to the pain and unfinished business caused by death, divorce, or any significant emotional loss.

When is it time to do my “grief work?

The biggest single inaccurate idea that we are socialized to believe is that “time heals all wounds.” Time does not heal, but there are specific actions you can take to help you discover and complete unfinished emotional business. When can you begin to discover and complete all of the things that you wish had ended “different, better or more,” and all of the broken “hopes, dreams, and expectations” about the future? The answer is immediately.

It’s in the time immediately following a loss (divorce included) that our memories of that relationship are most vivid and accurate. Even through the perceived “numbness” that accompanies grief there is easy and instant access to both finished and unfinished business in the relationship.

Waiting to do grief work is potentially dangerous. Most likely you know that grievers tend to create larger than life memory pictures in which they either “enshrine or bedevil” the person who died. This phenomenon increases with time, making it more difficult to discover and complete the “truth” within the relationship.

It’s been years since my loss, but I still feel like I’m not fully participating in my life, is this normal?

Unresolved grief can take us “out of the moment,” sometimes causing us to
 become lost in conversations and thought about people who are no longer physically with us. (This is not limited to death. We are equally likely to be lost in a conversation with a former spouse, still living, who is not physically present).

Assuming that our physical health is okay, unresolved grief also drains us
 of energy. It tends to close our hearts down. Since we’re incomplete with a prior loss we automatically protect ourselves by not loving again. We “hold back”
in order to protect our hearts, thereby dooming new relationships to fail. 
In addition, grievers tend to hide their true feelings for fear of being judged. Where isolation is the problem, participation is a major component of the solution. The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop is the ultimate participation aimed at discovering and completing the unfinished emotional business that fuels isolation.

How does Grief Recovery® differ from therapy?

Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss. It is not a pathological condition, nor is it a personality disorder. Grief Recovery® is an educational experience, based on the fact that most of us were never taught effective tools for dealing with grief. Participants find that any subsequent therapy is enhanced by their experience in the workshop. In fact, many therapists refer clients to the workshop.

Is The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop for me?

Are you suffering from a broken heart? Do you feel like past losses prevent you from living at 100%? Then The Grief Recovery Method®: 2 Day Personal Workshop is for you.

Should I bring anything with me?

A notebook and something to write with. Books and worksheets will be provided for you.

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