Contemporary Understandings of Grief: an Update on the Latest Thinking About Loss
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Seminar 2 in the Embrace Grief with Hope seminar series
If the last thing you learned about grief was Kubler-Ross’ five stages, we have great news! There are great new ideas about how grief works and how it affects individuals, families, and communities. Knowing the latest about grief is especially important for healthcare clinicians, educators, clergy, and anyone who regularly interacts with hurting people. In this workshop, we make the latest research findings intensely practical and fill the entire experience with challenging cases and ideas for positive interventions with bereaved people. Though bereavement is, to be sure, some science and some art, this workshop addresses the emerging challenges to make sense of all the noise about such things as grief stages, pro longed grief disorder, and complicated mourning.
Embracing Grief with Hope
The Tyndale Centre for Grief and Loss invites you to join us for "Embracing Grief With Hope" online seminars with Dr. William G. Hoy, Pastor, Presenter, Counsellor, Educator and clinical professor of Medical Humanities at Baylor University.
Grief is not about getting over our losses. It’s about enfolding them into our life, integrating them so that we are challenged to live new, transformed, and repurposed lives in the light of those losses.
Cost
$85 per seminar or $200 for all three.
Early bird rate (until Sept. 5, 2025), Student and Alumni rate:
- $65 per seminar
- or $150 for all three
Dr. William G. Hoy
Over the last 40 years, Bill has been walking alongside the dying, the bereaved, and the professionals who care for them. Prior to his coming to Baylor University, he was a pastor in Southern California from 1982 to 1995. He directed the Pathways Hospice bereavement program. In those days, the Hospice provided care to between 500 and 1,000 bereaved adults, teens and children every year. About 40% of patients had suffered a loved one’s violent death.
Dr. Hoy is widely regarded as an authority on the role of social support in death, dying and grief. He and his wife Debbie make their home in Crawford, Texas, where they welcomed students into their ranch home.
What Professor David Stamile says about his mentor, Dr. Bill Hoy.
“I am honoured to call Bill Hoy my friend and mentor for more than a decade. Through his guidance, I learned to navigate the dark waters of spiritual care in the midst of death, dying and bereavement. Beyond instructing me, he has equipped me with the tools to effectively teach college students about navigating these profound moments. Bill’s mentorship is a combination of a rich blend of practical wisdom, scholarly insight, compassionate care and the capacity to educate and guide others through transformative experiences.”