Want to understand what builds resilience and what gets in the way? To improve your coaching practice?
After years of writing about Resilient Grieving™ (both for the bereaved and in academic journals) we are excited to launch a new programme enabling professional coaches to integrate the Science and Practice of Resilient Grieving™ into your coaching practice.
Explore the unique aspects of the ISPORG Programme, designed by grief support experts, that caters specifically to the needs of professional coaches looking to deepen their understanding and skills in managing grief.
Our Introduction to the Science & Practice of Resilient Grieving™ (affectionately known in our community as “ISPORG”!) is a four session programme born out of the many conversations we’ve had with certified coaches telling us how many of their clients are grappling with some form of loss.
They wanted to enhance their coaching practice, by understanding loss and grief more - not just bereavement, but to be able to acknowledge the many non-death losses you see in coaching day in day out. Because, once you know how to look for it, you’ll see that loss is everywhere and affects everyone. Whether it’s divorce or dementia, redundancy or ageing, fertility challenges or loss of identity, physical impairment, or empty nesting. Coaches are increasingly aware of how many of their clients’ challenges are related to significant losses and transitions of various kinds.
They wanted to understand the grief associated with all these losses better, and they wanted the skills of Resilient Grieving™ to be packaged up for coaches, because, being strengths-based practices designed to build agency, they align so well with coaching.
What do we mean by Resilient Grieving? If you’ve not read my book, or seen my TED talk, then this whole new approach to coping with loss came out of my own experiences of losing our beautiful 12 year old daughter, Abi, in a tragic car accident. A resilience researcher at the time, Abi’s death prompted me to focus my work on grief. A decade of discovery later, we’ve now distilled the ways of thinking, acting and being, shown by research and practice, to help people cope with loss into this new introductory programme.
By helping your clients find what works best for them in grief, you’ll be able to support them to live and grieve at the same time.
My work has always been about enabling healthy adaptation to loss; there’s no room for fake positivity or happiology here. Frankly, grief sucks, and my own loss story has taught me there’s no side-stepping grief, but there are tools we can learn to make it that bit more manageable and leave us feeling less helpless and more in control.
This four Session self-paced course fusing the best of resilience science with contemporary grief research will grow your capability. It will:
We made ISPORG specifically for coaches. Other mental health professionals are already using it too, but we’ve added tools specifically for coaches to help meet your needs and upskill fast.
As well as the easily-digestible bite-sized learning videos, each session has a workbook featuring:
Coaches who have already completed ISPORG have told us they appreciated:
Doing this work has evolved a great deal over the decade since Abi was killed and become such a life mission for me. When I first wrote Resilient Grieving, a decade ago, I honestly looked upon it as my own personal story writing/meaning making exercise and, once written, that would be it. At the time, I doubted the general public’s appetite and readiness for tools empowering them to become active participants in their grief journey, and I stood out as a lone ‘pracademic’ endeavouring to give people more control over their grief. I thought I might be slammed for putting more pressure on the bereaved, I thought the book might not sell. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
What the success of my book (a second edition being published in the US and the UK this month) and the 9 million views of my TED talk demonstrate is the enormous demand for strategies that put grievers back in the driver’s seat of their loss story. People are desperate for these tools, truly hungry to know what they can do…they need coaches to support them as they navigate this alien landscape. They tell us that all the time, and nowadays, I’m not surprised.
It’s such an honour to do this work. Denise and I love nothing more than working together to put the best of findings from contemporary grief and resilience science in other practitioners’ hands. Being experienced practitioners ourselves, we know how important it is that what you learn here is backed by science, but we also fully appreciate the lovely feedback we constantly get about how real and approachable we are! Yes, we both have PhDs (so you can be sure that our tools and tips are likely to be more effective than many providers) and have been working in this field for 15 years each, but it’s doing this work together that gives us both such a buzz.
As Bex, a New Zealand coach, recently commented in an email, “I appreciate the science backed approach, with reference to the research and the way you and Lucy bounce off each other, it was a joy to watch.” Haha… we love that! I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that we finally have programme for coaches here at Coping With Loss. I wish we’d done it sooner - honestly, now that we have, and we’re getting such incredible feedback, I can’t imagine why we didn’t.
But every day an email or DM comes through telling us what a difference we’re making, it somehow makes something good come out of all the bad that was losing Abi. As Michele, a grief coach from Minnesota, recently wrote to me, “I believe in the power of resilience and love Dr. Hone’s work on this.” Wow. I believe in the power of resilience too. I believe it’s been under appreciated and there’s so much more we can do to help those struggling because of unresolved loss.
So, thank you to everyone in our community who encouraged us to create this programme. We know that together we truly can create a whole new approach to handling grief. One that is strengths-based, not pathologising, empowering not diminishing. We know that ISPORG will make you a better coach, and we know your clients will thank you for the knowledge you accumulate from completing this programme.
Learn about grief coaching: Sign up for the ISPORG Programme Now!
You will learn practical tools and techniques to ensure you are as empowered and prepared as possible to get your life back on track, and work towards a greater sense of control and calm.
