Is there someone on your team who is grieving? Do you want to understand more about the grieving process and how you can assist this employee and the rest of your team? This training will empower you in what to do and not do and provide you with strategies in helping both the employee/teammate as well as managing the productivity expectations.

Are you grieving the loss of a pet? Do you have an aging pet and are anticipating the loss? Stuck in fear and heartache? Does it feel like this loss may seem insignificant to others? Although everyone experiences grief, it is a unique process for each individual. Learn more about how to cope and work through your grief. Join this seminar to begin to address these feelings and connect with others who have similar experiences.

Grieving happens in situations that society doesn’t always recognize as losses, leaving nurses disenfranchised from their feelings and the support they need. Common examples include losing a patient, experiencing a patient's loss along with them, frequent turnover of coworkers, changes in leadership, losing or starting a job, losing a pet, the end of a friendship, divorce, moving, estranged relationships, infertility, peri/menopause, etc.

Grief is a normal reaction to some of our daily experiences as nurses and to life’s big changes. Frequent exposure to these losses can accumulate over time, turning into various forms of grief such as disenfranchised  grief, secondary grief and compounded grief. This session will review these forms of grief and healthy coping skills to process the grief that occurs with these kinds of losses. As a group, we will provide peer support for understanding and processing our unique experiences with grief as nurses.

For this group to be successful, participants must make the commitment to attend all 4 weeks and have access to Microsoft Teams on your professional/personal computer which has a camera. If you need IT support, we can help! Space is limited to 6-12 participants. 

Have you experienced personal or professional loss? Would you like a place to share your thoughts and feelings? All care team members are invited to join this free, six-week bereavement support group, led by a fellow care team member who has been trained as a bereavement facilitator.  The support groups will be offered in-person or online, based on the composition of the participants.

The “Growing Through Grief” bereavement support group is open to any care team member who is processing and/or struggling with personal or professional loss. Participants will be introduced to tools and coping skills to assist them in the grieving process. They will come together with fellow care team members who share their experiences and be reminded that they are not alone in their grief.

*If you sign up for this support group, we ask that you make the commitment for its entirety.

Please fill out this form, scan it and email it to: mhbereavement@mainehealth.org.

Disenfranchised grief happens in situations that society doesn’t always recognize as losses, and therefore you don’t get the support that you need. Common examples include losing a pet, estranged relationships, the end of a friendship, divorce, losing or starting a new job, moving, infertility, menopause, etc. Grief is a typical reaction to some of life’s big changes and losses can accumulate over time. This session will review healthy coping skills to process the grief that occurs with these kinds of losses. 

Although everyone experiences grief, it is a unique process for each individual. What is grief? How do you manage it? When will it be over? What can I do to start feeling better? I just want my life back, how do I do that?  Looking for answers? Attend this one hour session that is aimed to answer your questions and hopefully provide you with some coping tools to start the healing process.

Communication is hard under the best of circumstances and sometimes difficult conversations need to happen.  Gain skills  for yourself, or for those important people in your life, to consider end-of-life decisions, completing a living will and more.  This class will cover how to prepare for hard conversations, clarifying your intentions, options, communication and possible resolutions. 

Are you downsizing? Are you drowning in things?  Are you the executor of a loved one’s estate?  This training is for you.  Based on the popular book by Margareta Magnusson, this training will help guide you on methods of sorting through the possessions and ways to manage this process.