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Grief Literacy 202: Alternatives to Suppression

This course explores alternatives to grief suppression by examining how personal, collective, and systemic experiences of loss shape the ways we relate to ourselves and one another. Participants will consider how dominant Western cultural and mental health frameworks may reinforce patterns of grief suppression, and how engaging grief can support more sustainable relationships, care practices, and approaches
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Meet the speakers

Portrait of Camille Sapara Barton
Camille Sapara Barton

Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment social designer, advisor and educator who creates resources or collective experiences that prototype embodied decolonisation and reconnection to the web of life. Camille’s work is grounded in Black Feminism, ecology, somatics and harm reduction. They are the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024)

Portrait of Mal Rose
Mal Rose

Mal Rose (they/she), Grief Educator, has spent the last decade coaching, speaking, writing, and consulting on the topic of grief care and is thoroughly convinced of its ability it change the world for the better. Rooted in their lived experiences as a multi-violence and near-death experience survivor, they invite individuals, groups, and whole organizations to harness grief care as a force of radical cultural, social, and political systems reshaping. A warm, thoughtful, playfully dramatic lamp in the fog, they guide listeners through curious and creative explorations of the role of grief, and the consequences of its suppression, in conflict repair, community sustaining, and world building

By the end of this session, you'll be able to

1

Identify ways grief suppression and avoidance may appear in individual, community and professional relationships.

2

Apply reflective questions and relational approaches for recognizing and responding to complex experiences of individual and collective grief for social change.

3

Develop foundational facilitation skills for supporting grief while creating relationships and spaces with sufficient trust to support the expression of grief in others.

4

Apply skills for inviting and holding multiple dimensions of individual, interpersonal, and collective grief within individual and group settings.

Session agenda

1:00-1:10 introductions and IDHA community agreements 
1:10-1:40 slide presentation 
1:40-1:50 group discussion
1:50-2:00 shareback
2:00-2:15 break 
2:15-2:45 slide presentation
2:45-3:25 facilitated discussion exercise 
3:25-8:30 closing 

CE Info

2.25
CE credit hours

Live interactive meeting · 2 hours 30 minutes

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, CE Learning Systems is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 2.25 clinical continuing education credits.
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #0060.
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists. #PSY-0016.
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0045.
CE process

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. Please note: attendees must be present for at least 80% of the total session time to earn CE credit. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ceactivities.com".

If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact your event organizer.

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Disclosure
DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests).

The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer:


PLANNERS AND REVIEWER
The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

FACULTY
The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Policies & CE process

Disability Accommodation

We are committed to providing ADA accommodations in compliance with the law. To ensure your needs are met, please inform us of any requirements when you register, ideally at least 30 days before the event. You can do so by emailing support@ce-go.com or calling 888-498-5578.

Technology

1. This virtual event will be hosted via Zoom Webinar, and you may be prompted to download or upgrade your Zoom app if using a mobile device. A strong WiFi connection will be required for best quality.


2. We recommend clicking your "Join Webinar" button early and checking that your speakers are on before the event begins. Please do not worry about being seen or heard! Attendee video feeds and mics are turned off by default when entering a webinar. You will be able to ask questions via the Q&A feature.


3. Please respect that no copying, recording, or distribution of live session content is allowed. CE's are provided for the "live" sessions only. CE's will not be available for the recordings.

CELS Grievance Policy

If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact Tyler Gibson via confidential email to tyler@celearningsystems.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion.

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$35 – $95 · 2.25 CE credit hours · Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 · 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

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Grief Literacy 202: Alternatives to Suppression$35 – $95 · Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 · 2.25 CE
Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 · 2.25 CE
$35 – $95
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