INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL GRIEF COACHING | IOPGC
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Dora Carpenter's From Grief to Gratitude Coaching™ Model is a compassionate, non-clinical, heart-centered approach that empowers individuals to acknowledge, process, and navigate grief at their own pace while rediscovering hope, purpose, and possibility.
Rather than viewing gratitude as the opposite of grief, the model recognizes that both can coexist, honoring the reality of loss while gently guiding individuals toward renewed meaning and intentional living.
Through deep listening, reflective conversation, practical tools, and forward-focused action, the model helps people move beyond simply surviving life's losses and transitions to embracing life with greater resilience, self-awareness, and appreciation for the gift of the present moment.
Rooted in the belief that "Grief is the journey. Gratitude is the destination.", the model provides permission to grieve without judgment while illuminating a pathway toward healing, growth, and living fully one meaningful step at a time.​​​
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As a From Grief to Gratitude Certified Coach, you will have the knowledge, skills, resources, and confidence to coach clients through the transformative process of handling the painful emotions of losing a loved one, getting on top of their grief, and moving forward in life with meaning and purpose in the shortest time possible.
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Identify and process any personal unresolved grief
- Achieve emotional and financial rewards while reaching a global audience
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Promote your expert status with a proven 5-step methodology that gets life-changing results
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Practical tools and techniques that you can use with your clients immediately
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Increase client retention and referrals by being the go-to grief coach in your community
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Broaden your program offerings to serve a unique and underserved market to reduce program interruption and client dropout rate
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Tap into a niche market with unlimited prospects
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Enhance your coaching skills utilizing the International Coaching Federation's (ICF) core coaching competencies
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Associate with a proven, successful, and well-recognized brand
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From Grief to Gratitude Coaching™ Model
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Giving Yourself Permission to Grieve. Just as each of us was born with our unique DNA, so is the grief experience unique to each of us. There is no Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), rulebook, or one size fits all approach to handling grief. There is no right or wrong way to grieve and no one can tell you how to grieve; however, it is necessary to validate the uniqueness of the grief experience.
Remembering to Honor the Life and Legacy. Recognizing and accepting that the physical body is no longer with us, we now move to focus on the essence of who our loved one was, values instilled, accomplishments gained, lessons learned, gifts shared, memories treasured… the legacy left.
Incorporating New Traditions into Old Traditions. It is essential to your overall well-being to express and release your feelings. Staying stuck in only the past and harboring even a small percentage of unresolved grief can affect every other area of your life. Recognizing the “F” Factor: Fear, Forgiveness, and Faith is essential as you release painful emotions and begin to transition your grief and move into your new reality.
Embracing Meaning and Purpose Going Forward. You have been extended membership in a club that you never asked to join, and your life will never be the same again; however, your life can be meaningful. Seeing change as the natural flow of life and building confidence in handling it paves the way to begin creating your own legacy.
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Finding Gratitude in the Gift of Now. You began the program giving yourself permission to grieve and now it is time to give yourself permission to move beyond your grief. This does not mean forgetting that hole in your heart. Treasured memories will always reside there. This should elicit a sense of peace, comfort, and even excitement as you forge ahead with the next chapter of your “new” life going forward.
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​"Being a member of the From Grief to Gratitude Community means being part of a professional group of passionate, empowering, and successful team members. Work through your own grief while learning to help others. If you feel our grief coach certification program is the right fit for you, I would be honored to have you join our community!" ~ Dora Carpenter, CPC​​
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