Mother's Day Survival Techniques After the Death of a Child; Open to Hope Offers May 2nd Webinar
Bereaved individuals, caregivers and professionals learn techniques for getting through Mother's Day and finding hope after loss. Sponsored by the Open to Hope Foundation. To register for this webinar, go to opentohope.com.
- (1888PressRelease) May 01, 2011 - New York, New York and San Francisco, California Find new resources and coping skills by attending this online webinar on May 2nd, 2011 at 5 pm PST. Dr. Gloria & Dr. Heidi Horsley of the Open to Hope Foundation will be presenting with Dr. Darcie Sims. Darcie is a bereaved parent and child, a grief management specialist, a nationally certified thanatologist, a certified pastoral bereavement specialist, and a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. She is the author of Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna?, Footsteps Through the Valley, Touchstones and If I Could Just See Hope. She co-authored A Place For Me: A Healing Journey for Grieving Kids, Footsteps Through Grief, The Other Side of Grief and Finding Your Way Through Grief with her daughter, Alicia Sims Franklin. She also wrote and produced the videos Handling the Holidays and What Color is Dead: Death From A Child's View as well as authored numerous chapters in professional books and textbooks. Darcie is featured in the award-winning video series "Good Grief" produced by Iowa Public Television and has been featured in several other videos as well.
She is an internationally recognized speaker and was Coping Editor for Bereavement magazine for 15 years. She is now an editor for Grief Digest. She served on the national board of directors for The Compassionate Friends, the national board of directors for the Association of Death Education and Counseling and the board of trustees for the National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved. Darcie received The Compassionate Friends Professional Award in 1999. She co-chaired the 1991,1996 and 2005 World Gathering on Bereavement, and keynoted at all 4 World Gatherings.
Darcie is president and co-founder of GRIEF, Inc. a grief consulting business and the Director of the American Grief Academy in Seattle, Washington. She is a Diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association, a Certified Diplomate in Clinical Hypnotherapy and is listed in Who's Who in America, The World Who's Who of Women and The International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. For more, visit http://opentohope.com/.
Open to Hope Radio broadcasts every Thursday. To listen to this show, go to http://opentohope.com/.
About Dr. Heidi Horsley
Dr. Heidi Horsley, PsyD, LMSW, MS, is a bereaved sibling and a licensed psychologist and social worker. Dr. Heidi is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Open to Hope Foundation and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She has a private practice in Manhattan, NY specializing in grief and loss. She is also author of "Teen Grief Relief" and "Real Men Do Cry". She holds graduate degrees from the University of San Francisco, Columbia University, and Loyola University.
About Dr. Gloria Horsley
Dr. Gloria C. Horsley, PHD, MFT, CNS, is a bereaved parent, and has worked in the field of family therapy for over twenty years. Dr. Gloria is Founder and President of the Open to Hope Foundation. She serves The Compassionate Friends as a Board Member. She is co-author of "Teen Grief Relief" and "Real Men Do Cry." She holds graduate degrees from the University of Rochester, Syracuse, Greenwich and Holos Universities.
Contact:
Dr. Heidi Horsley
125 West 72nd Street, Suite 6F
NY NY 10023
(646) 269-1664
http://opentohope.com
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