Grief Training and Mentoring for Coaches
(Upon Request)
A six-session program for coaches, mentors, and others who support clients through life transitions
But before you can support others, you first have to work through your losses.
Have you taken the time to do that? Do you know how?
Click the button to request my six-session in-person training on grief work that will help you develop you excellent grief support skills by leading you through your own grief reconciliation.
This training is offered to small groups (4 people or less) upon request. If you're interested in current availability, please send me an email and I'll be in touch.
Program Description
Pandemic. Wars. Social upheaval. Economic stress. The world community has been through a lot. As a coach, it's important to be grief informed so you can help your clients through grief and the difficult transition after unwanted loss. I
I offer mentoring through small group training and discussion to teach coaches a process for helping clients who face unexpected or difficult losses. If you'd like to hone your skills in this important area of life, I invite you to work with me. You'll work through your own losses so you'll know how to show up for your clients.
If you are a professional who helps people through major life transitions, you almost certainly have clients who have faced major losses recently. Grief support is a skill you need now more than ever.
Our clients need us to know how to enter their hell and walk with them. To show up even though we know we can’t provide solutions to their sadness. And they need our faith in their ability to get themselves to the other side of grief. To a place where life will feel more hopeful again.
In my life coach training, our teachers taught us to “live it to give it.” That's why I believe the single best way to understand how to support a client in grief is to go through the process of reconciling your own loss.
What does grief work look like? It's a process of recognizing and remembering who (or what) you've lost. Grief calls you to honor, release your loss, and consciously reconnect to the new life that awaits you.
My goal is for you to enhance your coaching skills by understanding how to accompany your clients when they face a tragic or unexpected loss. You’ll do it by applying the techniques to your own life experience. As I was taught in my own life coach training, you'll live it to give it.
Want to know when this class will be offered again? Drop me an email.
By request
Six 90-minute sessions, held once a week for six weeks
Recordings, for when you miss a session
Exercises you can use with your clients
One 1:1 coaching session with Cindy
Investment: $360 USD
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What Can You Expect?
- Master specific techniques for leaning into grief so it can heal you
- Gain a full understanding of how your loss impacted your life
- Address unsettled business around your loss that troubles you
- Find confidence that you can move beyond grief without losing touch with who or what you've lost
- Use grief to lead you toward a stronger sense of what you value and care about
- Feel more confident and skilled at supporting clients through their life-altering losses
- Know techniques and specific tools you can use with your clients who experience heartbreaking losses.
Who Should Take This Class?
This class is designed for coaches, doulas, and others who support clients through major life transitions and who:
- Suspect their own losses are affecting their lives or their practices
- Know they're grieving, but haven't found time and guidance to properly process it
- Feel angry, sad, or unsettled about an unwelcome life change or event (including a loved one's death, divorce, job loss, loss of health, empty nest, etc.)
- Wish they felt more confident supporting their grieving clients
- Want to become more grief literate and knowledgeable about providing grief support to clients.
Meet Cindy Olney
I came to grief coaching after going through two of the most significant losses of my life: my mother’s death and the end of a 15-year career.
I lost both at the same time.
I emerged from that life chapter committed to founding a service that would help people face their own and their loved one’s end of life.
I help adult children, spouses/ significant others, and other family members reconcile loss or anticipated loss of a loved one. I also support family caregivers who are coping with the anticipatory grief and daily stress of caring for a loved one who's at end of life. I guide them to navigate grief using their own inner wisdom and core values.
I have a PhD in educational psychology, with an emphasis in learning and development, and have promoted learning and self-empowerment throughout my career. I'm a certified life coach through Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Coach Training and an end-of-life doula, through the School to Accompany the Dying.
Interested? Drop me a line and I'll add you to the waiting list. You'll be among the first to know when enrollment opens in 2023.