2011 Agenda and Course Listings
Welcome to the 15th Annual National Alliance for Grieving Children Symposium. Our Symposium Committee has created three full days of exciting and thought-provoking content for you.
For complete course descriptions as well as bios, download the 15th NAGC Symposium Catalog (latest update April 26).
Thursday, July 14, 2011
8:00 am to 3:30 pm Registration and Check-in
9:00 am to 10 am Welcome and Opening Keynote
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka
Helping Bereaved Children and Teens: New Understandings
10:00 am to 10:30 am Break
10:30 am to Noon Session A Concurrent Workshops
A1: Ethical Considerations for Program Management and Governance
A2: Making Grief Comfortable for your School District
A3: Measuring Perceived Progress in Group Experience
A4: Expressive Arts Interventions with Grieving Children and Teens
A5: "Oh, the Places You'll Go" using Dr. Seuss to Bridge Fun and Grief Work with Children
A6: An 8-Week Grief Support Group on a Shoestring
A7: Purposeful Selection of Literature in your Grief Support Curriculum
A8: Supporting a Child or Teen with Developmental Disabilities in their Grief
A9: Attachment and the Healthful Grieving Model
Noon to 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Session B Concurrent Workshops
B1: Workshop: Do We Need a Policy for That?
B2: Grieving Online: A New Approach to Support
B3: Understanding Suicide, Helping Children
B4: Creative Adventures in Group
B5: Teen Age Grief (TAG) - School-based Support for Grieving Teens
B6: "The Confessional at Olivia's House" - Using Video as a Coping Tool
B7: The Guilty Child: It's All My Fault
B8: Drawing on Grief: Breath Work and Creativity
B9: Camp Ray of Hope: Let's Focus on Family
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Session C Concurrent Workshops
C1: What Have You Done for YOU lately? Self-care for Staff
C2: Grief in the Workplace
C3: If We Lost Uncle David Why Don't We Go Find Him?
C4: Heroic Journey: Wilderness Adventure-based Grief Support
C6: When Grief Strikes Schools: Effective Strategies in the Classroom
C7: A Friend in Need: Peer Support Among Grieving Students and their Non-Grieving Peers
C8: Mending Broken Ties: A Model Developed by the As'trame Center (Switzerland)
C9: Ants in My Pants! What to do When Kids Just Can't Sit Still
5:30 pm to 7 pm The New York Life Foundation Welcome Reception
Open to all attendees on-site at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
Friday, July 15, 2011 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Registration/Check-in
7:45 am to 8:45 am Founders Breakfast
All NAGC Members are invited to the Annual NAGC Membership Meeting at the Founders Breakfast
9:00 am to 10:00 am Keynote
Dr. Richard G. Tedeschi
Understanding and Fostering Posttraumatic Growth in Bereaved Families
10:00 am to 10:30 am Break
10:30 pm to Noon Session D Concurrent Workshops
D1: Inclusion Workgroup: Restorative Diversity for Community Outreach & Program Development
D2: Including Trauma Losses in Group Discussions
D3: The Use of Media in Grief Support Groups for Children and Adolescents
D5: The ABCs of Camp M.A.G.I.C.
D6: Helping Children Deal with the Multiple Losses Related to Medical Conditions
D7: "Hoof to Heart" Journey of Healing, Listening & Learning with Equine Assisted Grief Counseling
D8: The Evolution of a Facilitator Training Program
Noon to 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm NAGC Board of Directors Presentation to Attendees
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Session E Concurrent Workshops
E1: How to Pump Passion into your Board
E2: Clinical Round Table Discussion
E3: Reach Out! Collaborating with your Community to Support Grieving Children
E4: Shneidman's Psychache Theory & Its Use in Intervention with Children Grieving a Suicide Death
E5: Stories with Spirit
E6: Good Grief Clubs: A Model for Providing In-school Bereavement Support
E7: There's a Nightmare in My Closet
E8: C's the Momentum: Community Building Strategies for Camps, Groups and Programs
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Session F Concurrent Workshops
F1: Drew's Hope: a University/Community Collaborative Support Program for Grieving Families
F2: Back to Basics: Tools of Expression
F3: From Peacocks to Parachutes: Sensory Motor Interventions for Traumatic Grief
F4: Weaving a Connection Through Healing Mandalas
F5: Activities, Activities, Activities!!!
F6: After Death: Supporting Children in the School Setting
F7: Weird is Normal When Teenagers Grieve
F8: Bereavement Services for Children and Teens: Let Me Count the Ways
Friday evening activity suggestions provided.
Saturday, July 16, 2011 8:00 am to 10:30 am Registration/Check-in
9:00 am to 10 am Plenary Session
Grief-related Changes Proposed for the DSM-V: Pros and Cons
Donna Schuurman, EdD and Corrine Walijarvi, MS, MBA, LMSW
10:00 am to 10:30 am Break
Session G: Saturday, July 16, 2011 10:30 am to Noon. Concurrent Workshops
G1: Then Came Hope: Community and Art Empowers Children in Collective Healing
G2: Techniques and Findings from the Judi's House "Families Grieving Suicide" Bereavement Group
G3: Purposeful Use of Activities in Groups
G4: Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
G5: Photovoice: A Boy's Journey of Losing a Sibling
G6: What About Joe? Implications of Sudden, Unannounced Departure in Children's Bereavement Groups
G7: Tend to Your Sacred Fire: Body, Mind, Spirit, Humor
Noon to 12:30 pm Closing Comments and Presentation by next year's host
