Oxford Diploma: Death, Grief, Healing in Depth : ACCREDITED
What you'll learn
- Entire content of Institute of Counselling Certificates (Counselling/Bereavement)
- Through workbooks, discussions and lectures how to work through grief...how to heal
- About Attachment, Loss, Grief - and then how to Heal
- Specific techniques for Grief and Bereavement Counsellors
- Becoming a Death Doula
- How to come to terms with their own mortality
- Quell certain fears about death that may have arisen
- Look forward to the future with more wonder and peace than before
- Make far better use of their time left
- How death in the shape of COVID-19 is rampaging throughout the world - especially America
- Openly discuss death with relatives and others
- Look back with memories rather than plans
- Be better prepared to study to become a Bereavement Counsellor
- How children view death and how you can help them cope
- Know about Mourning
- Death rituals worldwide
- Thoughts of major Philosophers on Death
- Understand Grief and the Family Unit
- Decluttering and deathcleaning
- COVID-19 and the Elderly
- Art therapy exercises to cope with Grief
Requirements
- Interest in Psychology and/or Bereavement Counselling
- A willingness to contemplate death - in you and/or loved ones
- An open mind - able to shift from fear to acceptance
- Ideally, a printer for the numerous workbooks
Description
AI summary of 126 reviews:
"The reviews highlight the detailed and resource-rich nature of the course, with learners appreciating the thorough instruction, reflective questions, and well-structured materials that facilitate self-paced progress and deeper engagement."
Seven Case Studies added in late May 2025:
The Role of a Death Doula: Guiding a Family Through the End-of-Life Journey
The Challenges of a Death Doula: Navigating Emotional and Practical Obstacles in End-of-Life Care
The Role of Cultural Sensitivity for a Death Doula in End-of-Life Care
A Death Doula in a Hospital: Bridging Emotional and Practical Support at the End of Life
A Death Doula Working in a Care Home: Providing Compassionate End-of-Life Support to Residents
A Death Doula’s Role in Supporting a Family Facing Dual Cancer Diagnoses
A Death Doula’s Role in Guiding a Family Through Grief After an Airplane Crash
November 2024
Updated Preview
September 24
New lectures on:
Henrietta
August 2024
New section on grief, lakes, dropping stones...
New section on Grief and Dementia
New section on Teachers dying in the summer
New section on Oedipus
New section on Zizek and being happy
Three new Case Studies in 2024 Covid
10 new Case Studies on preparing for death
3 new Case Studies on Bereavement Counselling
July 2024
Alzheimer's, Grief and Healing - new section added
Symbolic Grief - new section added
June 2024
New section on the Death of Ivan Ilyich
New section on how insects mating can help you overcome Grief
Ten new Case Studies added
The April Workbook added
Music and Grief case studies added
February 2024:
New sections:
Cows ...and Depression
Twinless Grief
DECEMBER WORKBOOK ADDED
New: A workbook has been added to this course that covers the whole of September 2023 and beyond.
This is not a course to be rushed, one that is completed in a few hours or less. Grief is not like that - and neither is healing. This is a course to be worked through - at your own pace - learning, applying, sharing, developing and absorbing. whatever your reason for looking at this course, rest assured there is something here - probably a lot - that is for you.
Remember:
This course comprises:
76 hours of lectures on Grief, Bereavement and Death
600+ lectures
Educational Announcements about Grief and Death
Numerous Grief, Death and Bereavement workbooks
A thriving Q/A where people post about grief and death - and healing
Regular updates/new lectures
THE ONLY GRIEF HEALING COURSE ON UDEMY OFFERING THE OXFORD GOLD STAR DIPLOMA
Throughout the course the emphasis is on going slowly - at your own pace. Think about what you are seeing, hearing, feeling. Share if you wish - participation in the Q/A is encouraged - it is not just for Questions and Answers but suggestions, comments, thoughts.
Topics covered:
1. Death, Grief and Healing - in Ukraine (current August 2023) Note: this includes art therapy as a tool for dealing with death and grief
2. Instead of a workbook - a section where students evaluate and discuss - share their grief
3. Death and Grief in America
4. Distress Tolerance and Grief
5. Celebration of Life Service
6. Death - a religious viewpoint
7. Death - one person's viewpoint
8. Thinking about death
9. Death - helping your parents grieve
10. Death, Grief and Healing - come, walk with me
11. Meditations to help you grieve
12. Teenagers and Grief
13. Pets and Grief
14. Is Covid still relevant? (Current January 2023)
15. Walking, talking, nature - all to help deal with Grief
16. Tips for different situations
17. End of life Doula
18. September Blues
19. Students' questions
20 12 days of Christmas
21. Walking with Grief
Warning: there are elements of this course that you may find distressing as the material here is very current (August 2023). Remember though that although 'death' is in the title, so is 'grief and healing'. The purpose of this course is to help you grieve - to help you heal. Meditations are included together with areas for you to carry out your own investigations.
Three detailed workbooks/journals are included plus numerous other resources.
UPDATE: This course now includes a Handbook on Death, Grief and Healing.
BACKGROUND TO THE COURSE.
In the beginning there were five of us:
Peter - Instructor
Chris - Instructor
Stephen - Videographer
Leslie - Proof reader and overall advisor
Grace - audio
Five people designed this course: Chris, Stephen, Peter, Grace and Leslie. The course was launched in 2017. By then, sadly, Grace, Leslie and Peter had all passed away. Also Chris had had a stroke! So the original course - and all the many additions and updates - has within it plenty of grief and sadness!
Who this course is for:
- Potential Grief and Bereavement Counsellors
- Those studying for a Grief and Bereavement Counselling Certificate
- Those with an interest in psychology, films, counselling...deaths
- Those apprehensive about death, grief and bereavement
- Anyone who wishes death was not a taboo subject
- Those wanting to prepare for the impact of death of a loved one
- Anyone wanting to talk to their children about death
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Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,490 Reviews
- 252,446 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
- 5,571 Reviews
- 144,182 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.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,685 Reviews
- 183,269 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.