MASTERCLASS with Robert Neimeyer and Reinekke Lengelle
“We’re wired for attachment in a world of impermanence”
November 13-14, 2023 Culemborg, The Netherlands
https://www.omgaan-met-verlies.nl/ons-aanbod/artikel/mcrobertneimeyer/masterclass-robert-neimeyer
Day 1: Loss and the Quest for Meaning: A Creative Toolkit – November 13, 2023
Target audience: Coaches, organizational consultants, social workers, psychologists, grief therapists.
Part 1. Pandemic Grief: The residual pain of death and non-death loss
(90 minutes, Robert A. Neimeyer)
Part 2. Imagining Agency at Work: Career writing for wellbeing in a world of changing employment
(90 minutes, Reinekke Lengelle)
Part 3. Writing the Self in Bereavement: From model to method
(90 minutes, Reinekke Lengelle)
Part 4. Chapters of Our Lives: Constructing and deconstructing our self-narrative
(90 minutes, Robert A. Neimeyer)
Day 2: Learning from Loss: A Master Class – November 14, 2023
(90 minutes, Robert A. Neimeyer)
Part 1: Embodied Dialogue: Analogical listening to the body of grief
(3 hours, Robert A. Neimeyer)
Part 2: Re-opening the Conversation: Imaginal dialogues in grief therapy
(3 hours, Robert A. Neimeyer)
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, maintains an active consulting practice, and also directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which provides global online training in grief therapy. Neimeyer has published 35 books, including The Handbook of Grief Therapies and New Techniques of Grief Therapy, and serves as Editor of Death Studies. The author of over 600 articles and chapters and a popular workshop presenter, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. In recognition of his contributions, he has been made a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning.
Reinekke Lengelle, PhD, is a Dutch-born Canadian professor who teaches for the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program at Athabasca University, Canada. She is also a researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Her book Writing the self in bereavement: A story of love, spousal loss, and resilience was published by Routledge in 2021 and won the International Qualitative Inquiry Book Award in 2022 and It’s a Way of Life: Best Book Award for Ethnography in 2021. Her Dutch book on Writing the Self using poetry and reflection is called “Jezelf Schrijven” (2018). Reinekke has spent 26 years teaching “Writing the self”, has developed several graduate course and many other offerings in this area, and is the author of various book chapters and articles on this topic as it pertains to personal development, mourning, and career learning. Her writing journey began in childhood; her first genres were poetry and playwriting. www.writingtheself.ca
