A heartfelt testimonial from a student that I challenged to get out of her comfort zone (boat) and walk on the water! "Thank you really feels like an understatement. Yet please know it is said with the sincerest and utmost intent. Thank you for using your skills, wisdom and especially your own experiences to create From Grief to Gratitude Grief Coach Certification Program. Thank you for facilitating during the pandemic (when I participated). Thank you for having the insight and foresight to see purpose within me well beyond the certification. Thank you for saying yes to me and giving me the greenlight to participate. Thank you for allowing for payment plans. Thank you for being gracious with me, being 5-6hrs behind, because of the time zone. Thank you for making room for my questions and challenging me with your answers. Thank you for continually encouraging me, nudging me and empowering me to step out of the boat. I am so far out of the boat, water is second nature. It's now the floor I walk on, with confidence. Dora, this work has gone and continues to go so far beyond grief coaching in ways I never saw coming, yet here I am and here I continue to go. Thank you. I appreciate you. I honor you and your work. I thank God for you and everything that brought From Grief to Gratitude into reality. I pray you always have every confidence in the power and impact of this certification. Again, thank you so very much!" R.K.

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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

• Promote your expert status with a proven 5-step methodology that gets life-changing results

• Practical tools and techniques that you can use with your clients immediately

• Increase client retention and referrals by being the go-to grief coach in your community

• Broaden your program offerings to serve a unique and underserved market to reduce program interruption and client dropout rate

• Tap into a niche market with unlimited prospects

• Enhance your coaching skills utilizing the International Coaching Federation's (ICF) core coaching competencies

• Associate with a proven, successful, and well-recognized brand

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PLATINUM PROGRAM OVERVIEW

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There is great satisfaction as a coach to get real results for your clients. The unique inclusion of a life coaching element takes your client not only through the grieving process, but extends through embracing a life of joy, fulfillment, and gratitude. Your clients will experience growth through their grief and find gratitude in who they are becoming. You will help them pull from their inner strength with powerful, effective coaching tools and exercises to reduce the grief-related pain, fear, stress, and anxiety and propel them forward to a fulfilled life of meaning and purpose. You won’t try to fix them… They are not broken. You won’t try to heal them… They are not sick. You won’t judge them… They are not to be judged. You won’t tell them what to do… You will help them take forward-moving action. You won’t push them… You will challenge them.  Your services as a grief coach will never go unappreciated.

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The eight-week From Grief to Gratitude Coach Certification Program has eight live interactive training modules where we focus on program-specific content and methodology, International Coach Federation (ICF) core competencies, and coaching activities and assignments.  Successful completion of the program awards 22 ICF Continuing Coach Education hours (10 core competencies and 12 resource development).

 

Week 1 - Foundations of Coaching Someone through Grief

 

This orientation module focuses on the prerequisites for successfully coaching your clients, understanding the ICF core competencies, the program format, delivery, expectations, and requirements for certification.

 

 

Week 2 – Giving Clients Permission to Grieve

 

You will have the knowledge, skills and resources to coach clients through the grieving process and help them understand and acknowledge their emotions.  Here is part of what we will cover:

 

• Recognizing the many faces of grief

• Knowing the myths and avoiding the pitfalls

• Validating the uniqueness of the grief experience

 

 

Week 3 – Supporting Clients to Remember to Honor the Life and Legacy

 

This is where you will help your clients to accept the death and begin the transition from focusing on the death to remembering and honoring the life.    Some of the highlights are:

 

• Recognizing the “F” Factor: Fear, Forgiveness, and Faith

• Confronting the reality of the death

• Creating rituals for remembrance

• Getting through the first year of grief

• Integrating loss into life

 

 

Week 4 – Guiding Clients to Incorporate New Traditions into Old Traditions

 

You will coach your clients through creating renewed attitudes, behaviors, and perspectives resulting in transformative awareness and actions.  Key elements include:

 

• Creating new routines and activities

• Taking responsibility for a renewed life

• Completing the Wheel of Life Project

 

 

Week 5 – Encouraging Clients to Embrace Meaning and Purpose Going Forward

 

Here you will encourage and support clients to embrace a renewed purpose as they complete assignments focusing on “what’s next” activities.  Here are a few of the activities you will help them create:

 

• The P.E.T. Project

• The Create Your Legacy Project

• The Future You Project

 

 

Week 6 – Championing Clients to Find Gratitude in the Gift of Now

 

Your clients are now ready to forge ahead, and you will coach them through developing the blueprint for a successful journey to a place of fulfillment, happiness, and gratitude.  A few highlights are:

 

• Giving yourself permission to move beyond grief

• Saying Yes! to it all

• The Personal Power Plan Project

• Evaluating your support system

 

 

Week 7 – Understanding the Impact of Grief in the Workplace

 

You will be able to understand how the normal, although challenging impacts of grief affect the workplace:

 

• The unspoken impact of grief in the workplace

• The far-reaching spectrum of grief-related losses

• Myths, stigmas, and judgmental perceptions surrounding grief

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Week 8 – Providing Support for the Grieving Employee and Balancing

Productivity

 

You will be able to understand and support the significance of loss and how to reduce the impact on productivity:

 

• Goals of a Compassionate Bereavement Policy

• Balancing Compassion and Continued Work Productivity

• Best and Worst Things to Say to Someone Who is Grieving

• Sharing Sensitive Personal Information

• Grieving Employee Returning to the Workplace

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The Intern-While-You-Learn Program gives you the opportunity to build your confidence and competence while working with a pro-bono coaching client.