Healing After Loss/Journey of the Heart

Created for use in bereavement groups, these guides gently move participants through seven stages of the grief process; providing support, encouragement, and guidance to those grieving the loss of a parent, spouse, child or other loved one. Although both programs cover the same material, "Healing After Loss" is a spiritually rich guide with a strong Christian and Bible based emphasis, while the "Journey of the Heart" material was designed to be spiritually neutral.

Combined with their Leader's Guides, these programs are beneficial for all types of grief and bereavement support groups. Lay persons as well as counselors will find the Leader’s Guide a valuable tool in facilitating your group. Moving gently through the book, workshop participants will cover the following information:

Working Through the Pain of Losing a Loved One.

• Understanding Loss examines the ways that loss is a wound.
• Nature's Anesthetic takes a closer look at shock and denial and how to cope.
• The Many Faces of Anger reveals the necessity of the anger phase of grief and how to make this stage of the healing process work for the griever in positive ways.
• Making a Deal with God explores the bargaining phase of grief and the opportunities it offers for personal growth and greater healing.
• In the Valley of the Shadow reveals how to gain strength and perspective from the depression stage in the grief process.
• The Ravages of Remorse deals with guilt feelings and the crippling effect they can have on the healing process.
• Return to the Sunshine shows how to nurture hope and find renewal in the acceptance phase of grief.

The Leader's Guide provides practical guidance in facilitating the bereavement group using the materials. Information is included on how to:

• Understand your role as a facilitator
• Advertise and prepare for your group
• Create a warm, welcoming, safe environment for your group members to process grief
• Understand the needs of your group
• Help your group deal with the crippling effects of guilt and remorse
• Teach your group coping skills as they face shock and denial
• Understand family systems
• Cope with and understand the phase of anger
• Make a commitment to the healing process
• Gain strength and perspective from the depression stage of grief
• Find healing in the confusion
• Help a grieving child heal
• Understand when it's time to refer a group member to a specialist

Hospitals, churches, schools, and organizations can have Border Mountain staff present either "Healing After Loss" or "Journey of the Heart" as a workshop at your facility.

TO ORDER - see our Catalog Page to order manuals and the Leaders Guide for either the Christian based "Healing After Loss" or the spiritually neutral "Journey of the Heart" program materials.

 

 

If you are looking for a sensitive, caring gift for someone that is dealing with loss and grief, please consider sending them a copy of the Participant's Manual for either of these two programs.
While a card, note, or poem will be forgotten in a short time, this gift will continue to help that special person heal over the long term. Whether used alone or with a group, the Participant's Manual is designed to gently help people work through their grief.

NEW! - "This Hurts" Children's Workbook
A children's guide/journal to death and grief. Sensitively written and wonderfully interactive, this workbook gently leads a grieving child through the process of healing after a major loss. For more information please see the Grieving Children or Catalog pages.