Oxford Diploma: Death, Grief, Healing in Depth (August 2024)
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
- How to begin to cope with the Grief and Loss that is COVID-19
- 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
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:
71 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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- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 8,873 Reviews
- 239,098 Students
- 127 Courses
I currently volunteer for:
Different Strokes (Stroke charity) - Ambassador
Age UK - running a book club
Tandem (Befriending)
NHS - Culture liaison
NHS - interview panels
Sport in Mind - Support
Multiple Sclerosis - Support Worker
Trinity Learning - - visit Primary Schools
Oxford Recovery College - tutor
Horton Hospital - Hospital radio
Story Telling Museum - guide
43+ years experience teaching Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics and other subjects in schools, universities and other colleges - State and Private Sector. Appeared in 100+ films (including corporate training and fitness videos). 100+ books on Amazon. Featured by the BBC, Polish TV, The Times, The Telegraph and...The Sun.
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
Business and Economics background
Set up and ran Oxford Conferences and ran 50+ Business/Economics conferences at schools - all fees to charity
Amazon Business/Economics books include:
Titles include:
· Case studies for Business
· Time management for teachers
· Creativity techniques in Economics
· Drucker in Business Studies
· Creativity in Business
· Business calculations
· Further applications of de Bono
· Applying de Bono
· Philosophy Games
Taught students at the University of Oxford , Brookes University and schools in the state and independent sector
Principal of Oxford School of Learning for 15 years
Created OSL Training and trained Business, Psychology and Sociology teachers
Set up Marketing Education Services in the 1980s and sold cassette tape recordings of my lectures at the University of Oxford
Featured in The Times, The Telegraph, the BBC, ITV and Polish national television owing to the success of my teaching techniques and subsequent success of my students.
Ex-Buyer for a major car company
Psychology and Motivation background
Author of 100+ books on Amazon (mainly Business/Economics/Psychology) including:
· GCSE Psychology thru Mind Maps
· AS/A2 Psychology
· AS Psychology thru Mind Maps
· A2 Psychology thru Mind Maps
· Lifestyle Plan
· The Internet and Psychology
Through his own business OSL Training has run training courses for teachers of Psychology
Writer of several plays about death and appeared in films dealing with death
Theatre and Film Career
· 2012 - set up Almost Random Theatre.
· Since 2012 the theatre has delivered workshops in Scotland, Wales, Czech Republic and Poland as well as 15 schools in England.
· Chris has written/directed over 50 short and 3 one-Act plays that have subsequently been performed in London and Oxford.
· Scripts for three of his plays have been sold, via an Independent publisher, to schools in the UK.
· Course-creator/author of Coping with Old Age and Death - one person's perspective.
· He has also had plays put on - and performed in - Oxford and Brighton Fringes, London, Scotland and Wales.
· Chris has appeared in over 112 films.
Charity/Wellbeing work
· Ambassador for Heart UK
· Stoke Lead and member of Research panel for the Stroke Association
· Board member of Stroke Club UK
· Ambassador for Different Strokes (charity)
· Member of PHC (Public Health Collaboration) UK
· Author of 6-volume Lifestyle Manual
· Author of other Lifestyle books on Amazon
· Originator of the Holman Protocol
Nothing in any of Chris's courses should be interpreted as linking to or representing any of the above stroke organisations.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 4,656 Reviews
- 137,166 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.