Oxford Diploma: Death, Grief and Healing (Short Course)
What you'll learn
- What grief is
- How grief manifests
- What can be done to deal with grief
- The PWR approach
- When to seek help
- Initiating healing
- The Platinum Rule
- The Mellet Approach
- The fluidity of Grief
Requirements
- None - just internet access
- Ideally a printer for the Case Studies and workbook
Description
This course is about Death, Grief and Healing. It includes the PWR approach, the Mellet approach and the Platinum Rule as well as standard modules about Grief, it's manifestation and impact.
There is also a special section on RESILIENCE TRAINING uploaded in April 2025
This includes
Ways to cope with grief, anxiety and depression
Resilience exercises
7 ways to develop resilience
Emotional overwhelm
Have a look at the Preview lectures.
There are four unique features to this course:
1. The reference to very very (2025) current events which makes this a very up to date course
2. The deliberate attempt to encourage student involvement in the Q/A
3. Different approaches - PWR, Platinum Rule - that may not be found in other courses
4. The use of paintings from Art Therapy students to illustrate Grief
The Course Now Includes Case Studies
Case Studies - with Discussion questions - have now been released for three areas:
a. The manifestation of Grief
b. What you can and cannot do when someone is grieving
c. The fluidity of Grief
By going through the case studies and discussing the contents and the questions posed, not only will you be talking and learning about grief but you will be discussing grief in different scenarios. This way you are far more likely to feel involved in the course.
This course includes a GRIEF HANDBOOK.
So there are now two workbooks/handbooks with the course. The newest one (added 3rd September 2023) contains activities for every single day of September PLUS work beyond. Of course, as with any course, the lectures and the workbooks are optional BUT completion of this course (including workbooks) gives you the Oxford Diploma as testimony to your achievements. No other Instructors can give this Diploma as it is given by a third party: The Oxford School of Learning.
The more you participate in the Q/A, the more you will get out of this course.
Who this course is for:
- Grief Counsellors
- Death Doulas
- All who have been touched by Grief..
- All who wish to promote healing from grief
- Those with limited time but wish to reflect in between lectures
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- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,395 Reviews
- 252,129 Students
- 144 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 5,517 Reviews
- 143,989 Students
- 85 Courses
Almost Random Theatre is a theatre company started in 2012. After putting on plays at Oxford and Brighton fringes, taking actors to Poland and Czech Republic, selling plays to schools, putting on many short plays in Oxford, visiting 60+ schools and running 'drama days' it was decided to...slow down.
The theatre's main contribution now is helping with numerous Art Therapy courses.